Earlene Fowler

Folk-art expert Benni Harper returns to the small Arkansas town where she spent her childhood summers, hoping to reconnect with family and friends, but the peaceful place she remembers is now torn apart by racial tensions and murder.

Arkansas Traveler

Probing the death of the San Celina Senior Citizen Prom king, museum curator Benni Harper goes against the wishes of her police chief boyfriend and uncovers the victim's fifty-year-old affiliation with a World War II Japanese blackmailing ring. Reprint. PW. LJ.

Irish Chain

While preparing for two upcoming weddings, California folk art authority Benni Harper suddenly finds herself embroiled in a decades-old, unsolved murder and dealing with a personal crisis of the heart.

Steps to the Altar

While visiting a friend's Western dude ranch, Benni Harper stumbles upon the remains of a long-dead murder victim buried in a shallow grave and embarks on an investigation to reveal the truth behind the terrible crime. Reprint.

Broken Dishes

Benni Harper, the sleuth whose crime-solving talents are as colorful and complex as the patchwork she loves, faces her most perplexing case yet as she tries to find out who killed the library storyteller, who was found facedown in the lake

Goose in the Pond

When a talented photographer is murdered, ex-cowgirl-turned-sleuth Benni Harper must quickly sort out a complicated patchwork of motives that mark someone very close to her as a prime suspect in the killing. Reprint. AB.

Dove in the Window

Benni Harper starts over as curator of a folk-art museum after her husband's death, but when an artist is found dead and her cousin is accused, the clues lead to a different truth about her husband's death. Reprint.

Fool's Puzzle

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After a whirlwind marriage to police chief Gabe Ortiz, quilter and amateur sleuth Benni Harper joins her husband on a trip to his Kansas hometown, only to become caught up in a murder investigation.

Kansas Troubles

Quilter and rancher Benni Harper is forced to use all of her amateur sleuthing talents, when she becomes entangled in the dark and tragic secrets of a feuding family as she investigates a brutal crime that hits all too close to home. Reprint.

Seven Sisters

Mariner's compass

Der Museumsmörder.

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.

State Fair

When her boss, Constance Sinclair, insists that she investigate the death of a local socialite, Benni Harper's search for a killer is threatened by plans to put her quilting museum on the map and a visit from her daunting mother-in-law and "surprise" new husband, in the thirteenth volume in the best-selling quilting mystery series.

Tumbling Blocks

When a mysterious sharpshooter with a vendetta takes aim at a local cop during a craft festival, Benni Harper fears for her loved ones, particularly her police chief husband, but still vows to make her hometown safe.

Spider Web

A modern-day crime sends folk art expert Benni Harper on a nostalgic journey back to 1978 to look at her college days and her first husband, Jack, when she discovers that an event from her own past could hold the key to solving a mystery from the present. By the author of Steps to the Altar. Reprint.

Sunshine and Shadow

Benni and her relatives and friends are gathered for the family's annual barbecue and cattle roundup. Among the guests is Shelby Johnson, a young photography student from a wealthy Chicago family. In Benni she finds a favorite subject and a new friend. But when the young woman's body is discovered on the ranch the next morning, Benni's closest relatives suddenly develop into prime murder suspects...

Nichts mag Benni Harper lieber, als Geheimnissen und ungelösten Kriminalfällen auf den Grund zu gehen. Deshalb ist sie Feuer und Flamme, als sie völlig unerwartet Haus und Vermögen eines ihr unbekannten Mannes erbt. Ehe Benni das Erbe von Jacob Chandler antreten kann, muss sie allerdings eine Zeit lang allein in diesem Haus wohnen. Schon bald stellt sie fest, dass der Verstorbene sehr viel von ihr wusste. Und direkt nach ihrem Einzug geschehen allerlei merkwürdige Dinge: Sie findet Blut auf der Türklinke, die Garage brennt ab, sie wird verfolgt. Doch Benni lässt sich nicht abschrecken, sondern ist fest entschlossen, herauszufinden, wer der alte Mann war und warum er gerade ihr sein Vermögen vererbt hat. Doch die Lösung reißt alte Wunden wieder auf ...

Die geheime Botschaft

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.

The Saddlemaker's Wife

Benni Harper—spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk art expert—finds herself on the trail of a storybook killer in this mystery from Agatha Award-nominee Earlene Fowler. Hoping to relax after solving a murder in Wichita, Kansas, Beni and her new husband Gabe Ortiz are back in San Celina, California. But while Benni is jogging in the park, she happens upon the dead body of a library storyteller. It's an odd and disturbing scene—the woman is still dressed in her Mother Goose costume, lying facedown in the lake. Benni's investigation takes her inside the Storyteller's Guild, where she finds out that Mother Goose was telling more than fairy tales. She was capable of airing the kind of secrets that destroy lives—and inspire revenge...

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