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Benni Harper mysteries volume 1
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English
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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.
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 10
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English
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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.
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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A woman photographer is killed on the ranch of PI Benni Harper in California. The murder occurs during a Thanksgiving reunion and is a case of jealousy involving two men. Benni must decide which one did it.
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English
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Benni's 19-year-old stepson, Sam Ortiz, confides in her that he and his pregnant girlfriend, Bliss Girard, a rookie cop in the San Celina, Calif., police department, want to marry. Benni fears that her husband, Gabe Ortiz, the town's police chief, will disapprove--and that so will Bliss's socially and politically prominent family, the Browns. Benni isn't certain how to react when Lydia Ortiz, Sam's mother and Gabe's first wife, arrives to discuss...
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Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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Hoping to relax after solving a murder in Witchita, Kansas, Benni Harper 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. She's dressed in her Mother Goose costume, lying face down 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 tells. She...
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Benni Harper journeys to Morro Bay to claim an inheritance from Jacob Chandler, a man she does not know, and embarks on a baffling hunt for clues to the mysteries of the past.
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Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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After a whirlwind marriage to the police chief, Gabe Ortiz, Benni is excited to visit her new husband's Kansas hometown.At a rowdy backyard BBQ, she meets Tyler Brown, an aspiring country singer with a promising future and a fascinating past. Tyler's gifts and life are cut short when she's murdered.and Benni realizes that her hasty marriage will be much like the Kansas weather---unpredictable and bound to be stormy.
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
Description
Benni's friend and her husband have opened a dude ranch that's about to go belly-up. So Benni helps out, tempting vacationers with a Western extravagnza. Soon, she's cooking and quilting with a slew of tenderfoots. But the fun truns sour when a dog finds a human bone on the property and Benni uncovers the remains of a man murdered outlawstyle.
9) State fair
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
[2010]
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.
10) Tumbling blocks
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2007.
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.
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