Orem Library

Leaving behind memories of her late husband, Benni Harper is making a fresh start...Moving to the trendy California town of San Celina, she takes an exciting new job as director of a folk-art museum. While setting up an exhibit of handmade quilts, she stumbles upon the body of a brutally stabbed artist. Hoping to conduct an investigation on her own, she crosses paths with the local police chief, who thinks this short and sassy cowgirl should leave...

Homer Kelly returns to help his wife's niece, Annie Swann, who has gained success as a children's book illustrator. Annie has built a fabulous addition to her house and is renting out the old section. Part of her new area is a 35-foot wall, on which Annie plans to paint her masterpiece. However, a mysterious face keeps appearing -- no matter how often Annie paints it out. One day, Annie returns home to find her tenants' handicapped son apparently...

Meet Benni Harpera spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert whos staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. Shes got an eye for murderous designsand a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded crimes When Jacob Chandler died, he left his home in Morro Bay and all its contents to Benni Harperthe only stipulation being that she had to stay in the house, alone,...

On the day after a heated discussion of a fictional heroine's suicide, book group member Helen Coulter falls to her death from her roof garden. Helen's death is declared a suicide--a shocking end to a perfect life--but Amanda is skeptical. ... Amanda's investgations will draw her into a zone of great danger, where Helen Coulter's ice-hearted killer is once more ready to strike."--Page 4 of cover.