Earlene Fowler
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
In this 13th installment, ex-cowgirl and quilter Bennie moves to California to start over after the sudden death of her husband. Working as the curator of a folk-art museum, Benni uncovers clues to a small-town murder. Now it's up to this crackerjack sleuth to solve the crime.
2) Spider web
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
The Memory Festival is a celebration of recollections and loved ones through crafts. But when a local cop is wounded by a mysterious sharpshooter who seems to have a vendetta against the police, Benni fears for "her" loved ones, especially her police chief husband.
3) State fair
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Description
Attending the San Celina Mid-State Fair, Benni Harper's enjoyment of the fair's activities are put on hold after the theft of a quilt intended for a special exhibition and the discovery of a corpse in the Piebald Family Farm Exhibit.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
From the Agatha Award-winning Benni Harper mystery series comes a tale that will keep you at the edge of your seat. First Benni and her husband find her pick-up truck spray painted with insults. Then, while organizing a quilt show at her gallery, a bullet whizzes by only inches from her head. Could this mystery shooter have something to do with her husband's past as an undercover police officer?
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Benni Harper is the spunky and spirited star of Earlene Fowler's LA Times best-selling mystery series. Harper is helping out a friend on a dude ranch by teaching quilting classes and lending a hand wherever needed. Things are finally coming together, that is until a dead body and Harper's nemesis Detective Ford "Hud" Hudson show up. Harper has to keep the dude ranch running, keep the guests safe, and solve the case so she can get rid of old Hud before...
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Benni Harper, a curator of the local folk art museum and amateur detective, is the star of this best-selling Agatha Award-winning series. Her talent for finding trouble surfaces in an unlikely place-her own church. While helping her grandmother direct the children's musical, Benni finds the beaten body of the church handyman. Soon, other mysteries compel her to investigate, despite the warnings from her husband Gabe, the chief of police.
7) Love mercy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After being widowed, Love Mercy Johnson has come to terms with her life in Morro Bay, California. She spends her time writing columns for a regional magazine, helping her in-laws work their ranch, and trying to move on. But her dreams of reconciliation with her long-estranged grandchildren come true when her eighteen-year-old brokenhearted granddaughter, Rett, unexpectedly shows up. Together they struggle to co-exist while confronting old resentments...
Author
Series
Ruby McGavin novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruby McGavin has inherited part of a cattle ranch from her late husband, only to discover that his family is very much alive, in contrast to what he told her. Even as she is drawn to handsome saddlemaker Lucas McGavin, she learns more about her late husband's family-and wonders if she ever really knew him. Piecing together the truth, Ruby uncovers a legacy of pain and denial that has pursued the McGavin family for too long.
Author
Series
Ruby McGavin novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Hoping to help her deceased husband's alcoholic brother, Nash, make a fresh start, Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, where she must confront her estranged mother and a terrible secret.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A senior citizens' prom in San Celina is disrupted by murder. Museum curator Benni Harper investigates the Japanese community to which the victim contributed financially in World War II. It turns out his charity did not come from the heart, but was the result of blackmail by two ladies of the town. By the author of Fool's Puzzle.
12) Fool's puzzle
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
On the eve of a quilt exhibition at the folk art museum in San Celina, California, one of the artists is found dead. The museum's new curator, the recently widowed Albenia Harper, sees her cousin, Rita, flee the scene and the police chief names her the prime suspect. But Albenia is sure Rita is not guilty and investigates on her own.
14) Seven sisters
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A story teller from the local library is murdered in San Celina, California, only days before the town's story telling festival. Sleuth Benni Harper, curator of the folk art museum which is sponsoring the festival, discovers the victim doubled as another kind of story teller, a ghostwriter for the town's scandal sheet. By the author of Kansas Troubles.
16) Kansas troubles
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Newly wed sleuth Beni Harper, the cowgirl who became a quiltmaker, visits her husband's family in Kansas just in time to investigate the murder of a quilter who left her Amish husband. In the process, Beni discovers her marriage is much like the Kansas weather: unexpected and bound to be stormy.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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