Earlene Fowler, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-425-17296-4
Conflicting family loyalties and the burdens of the past lie at the heart of the engrossing seventh novel from four-time Agatha Award nominee Fowler to feature amateur sleuth Benni Harper. Benni's 19-year-old stepson, Sam Ortiz, confides in her that
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Earlene Fowler. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-25284-0
Fans of Fowler’s Benni Harper mystery series will welcome this likable sequel to The Saddlemaker’s Wife (2006), which follows troubled but mainly goodhearted characters in Cardinal, Calif., a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Lucas McGavin...
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Earlene Fowler. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-24098-4
Benni Harper and her second husband, police chief Gabe Ortiz, face two unexpected situations in Fowler's well-paced 15th mystery set in San Celina, Calif. (after 2010's State Fair). First, a sniper takes a shot at a police car parked near the...
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Earlene Fowler, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-425-16891-2
A bizarre inheritance, a dangerous quest and a political battle are the main events of Benni Harper's captivating sixth adventure (after Dove in the Window). Benni's work at the San Celina Folk Art Museum is interrupted when she unexpectedly...
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Earlene Fowler, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-15782-4
The small town of San Celina, Calif., provides the backdrop for this unremarkable tale, the latest appearance of Benni Harper (following Kansas Troubles). Benni, curator of the local folk art museum, discovers the body of librarian Nora Cooper...
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Earlene Fowler, Author Berkley Publishing Group $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-15148-8
Newly married California museum curator Benni Harper travels to Kansas to meet her in-laws in this third of Fowler's quilt-pattern series (after Irish Chain). Police chief Gabe Ortiz, her husband, assures her that everyone in his small hometown will
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Earlene Fowler, Author Berkley Publishing Group $18.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-425-14619-4
This well-textured sequel to Fool's Puzzle, also named for a traditional quilt pattern, intricately blends social history and modern mystery. Folk art museum curator Benni Harper is involved not only with an upcoming cross-stitch sampler exhibit but
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Earlene Fowler, Author Berkley Publishing Group $17.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-425-14041-3
Young, recently widowed Benni Harper, the foolhardy heroine in this predictable debut, leaves her ranch after her husband's accidental death and becomes the curator of the folk-art museum in the coastal California town of San Celina. Benni is...
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Earlene Fowler, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-17808-9
If your image of quilters is that of old ladies whiling away the hours in rocking chairs or at looms, then perhaps you've not met Benni Harper, the frisky director of the Josiah Sinclair Folk Art museum in San Celina, Calif. In her eighth winning...
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Earlene Fowler, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-18349-6
In a story sewn together as tightly as a traditional quilt, Agatha Award–winner Fowler delivers superior cozy entertainment in her ninth Benni Harper mystery (after 2001's Arkansas Traveler). In the California coastal town of San Celina,...
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Earlene Fowler, Author Berkley Publishing Group $24.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-425-22597-4
The mysteries of the human heart fill Fowler's first of a sweet new series about Love Mercy Johnson of Morro Bay, Calif. This delightful departure from her Benni Harper mysteries (Tumbling Blocks, etc.) features cameos of Benni and husband Gabe, but
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Earlene Fowler, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-23422-8
Set in 1997, Fowler's folksy 14th Benni Harper mystery (after 2007's Tumbling Blocks
) finds the avid quilter, museum curator, and reluctant sleuth readying herself for the annual San Celina (Calif.) County Mid-State Fair. Racial tensions...
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Earlene Fowler, Author . Berkeley Prime Crime $24.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-425-21519-7
With the imminent arrival of her mother-in-law, unfinished Christmas shopping and unexpected dog-sitting responsibilities, Benni Harper, amateur sleuth and folk art museum curator in San Celina, Calif., has enough on her hands even before she looks...
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Earlene Fowler, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-425-20778-9
Fowler's lucky 13th novel, a departure from her Agatha Award–winning Benni Harper series (Delectable Mountain
, etc.), offers a poignant tale of a family fractured by the secrets of the past. Ruby McGavin, grieving over the recent death of
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Earlene Fowler, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-20249-4
No wonder Benni Harper fans are so faithful—the woman can't even stay out of trouble in church. At the start of Fowler's topnotch 12th cozy to feature the quilter and amateur sleuth (after 2004's Broken Dishes
), Benni stumbles on...
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Earlene Fowler, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-425-19597-0
In Fowler's 11th Benni Harper mystery (after 2003's Sunshine and Shadow
), one of the best yet in this well-written cozy series, quilter Benni comes to the rescue of Shawna and Johnny Abbot, the new owners of the Broken DIS (aka the Broken...
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Earlene Fowler, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-18855-2
Agatha Award winner Fowler offers two parallel plots to dramatize the alternating light-and-dark theme of her 10th beguiling mystery to feature Benni Harper, the San Celina, Calif., amateur sleuth and folk art museum curator. The first is set in...
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