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Music flowed out of the old ranch house's open front door like a wash of honey water - "Are you Lonesome Tonight?"
Elvis Presley's unmistakable voice rose and surrounded me as I watched from a small rise a hundred yards away. The damp, drooping branches of a pepper-scented valley oak camouflaged me and my horse from whomever was inspecting my former home. Trixie, a new mare my father bought last week, shifted beneath me. (Ch. 1)
Spider Web (Benni Harper Mystery)
by Earlene FowlerHardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover; 1 edition (May 3, 2011)
Source: Publisher
Product description: Folk art museum curator, rancher and sometime sleuth Benni Harper is organizing a Memory Festival, in which she and the ladies of her Coffin Star Quilt Guild are displaying their Graveyard quilt. But a sniper threatens to make it a day to remember in the worst way. 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. Benni is determined to make her hometown safe-before their peaceful street fair becomes a shooter's deadly target range.
Comments: This is the 15th in the series featuring quilter Benni Harper. The setting and the plot make this a memorable mystery, in addition to Benni herself and her friends in the Quilter's guild. Folk arts and craft lovers who love mysteries will enjoy this series.
About the Author: Award-winning mystery writer Earlene Fowler was raised in La Puente, California, and now lives in Southern California with her husband. Visit her at http://www.earlenefowler.com/
I'm in love with this novel already. Thanks for sharing those few lines.
ReplyDeleteShe had me at Hello. Actually at Elvis and Are you lonesome tonight.His voice was like sweet maple syrup to my soul.
I'm getting this one.
Thanks, Barb