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Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
One of Benni's favorite mystery writers, Emma Baldwin, is coming to San Celina. Her purpose: to reconnect with the town she left years before. Benni is thrilled when Emma agrees to display at the folk art museum a crazy quilt that inspired Emma's first book. It's an exciting time for Benni - and it also stirs up some bittersweet memories of her first husband. Her current husband, Gabe, also has a friend in town: Luke, an old LAPD buddy, now a private...
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 crimesBenni and about two hundred of her relatives and friends are gathered for the familys annual barbecue and cattle roundup. Among them is Shelby Johnson, a young...
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss volume 5
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
On learning of a plot to rob the treasure-filled Cairo museum, Vicky Bliss, the assistant curator of the Munich National Museum, joins a Nile cruise. The object of the trip is to prevent the burglary by identifying the burglar: the wily Sir John, a master of disguise, who has been her most dangerous antagonist and her occasional lover.
24) Tumbling blocks
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When her boss, Constance Sinclair, insists that she investigate the death of a local socialite, Benni Harper's search for the 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.
25) Reliquary
Author
Series
Pendergast novel volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sequel to "The Relic" which has NYPD Lt. D'Agosta, Natural History Museum curator Margo Green, and a host of returning characters involved in a new investigation spurred by the discovery of the decapitated remains of a New York socialite and a sharp increase in the decapitation rate among the city's underground homeless.
26) Leaving: a novel
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Former college sweethearts reconnect decades later after each has married, raised a family and forged careers and embark on an intense affair that forces them to confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Gwen Hollingsworth is the curator at a museum in Nova Scotia dedicated to the Hollywood legend Scarlett Fontaine's life. Gwen is also sole descendant and heir to Scarlett's fortune. Gwen is dealing with a messy marital separation and is struggling to move forward. So when Peter Miller, a biographer and photojournalist, come to the museum with shocking claims about Scarlett, which include a life of exile in Alaska and a baby born in secret, Gwen's...
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Volunteered" to take over rehearsals of a children's play for the musical director of her church, Benni Harper's entertainment career comes to a dismal end when she stumbles upon the corpse of the church handyman in front of the altar.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest," it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability. Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire--to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum...
30) Seven sisters
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
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.
31) Kansas troubles
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
On her honeymoon visit to meet the in-laws, Benni has to sort through sweetie's childhood and longtime best friends to find who killed ex-Amish ambitious singer. The quilt is the clue, an obvious reason, but the names of the pattern is what Benni has to remember to solve the person responsible.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Steps to the Altar finds California folk art expert Benni Harper preparing for two upcoming weddings, digging up clues to a decades-old unsolved murder-and struggling with a very personal crisis of the heart...
33) Echoes of evil
Author
Series
Krewe of hunters volume 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Brodie McFadden is supposed to be on vacation, getting some sunshine and deciding if he wants to join his brothers and the Krewe of Hunters, a special paranormal investigation unit of the FBI. But a diving excursion with an old navy buddy to a historic shipwreck uncovers a crime scene - and the corpse is new. Museum curator Dakota "Kody" McCoy just wants her Key West culture festival to succeed. She's always had a deep connection to her home, including...
34) Broken dishes
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
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.
36) Old world murder
Author
Series
Chloe Ellefson mystery volume 1
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Chloe Ellefson, starting fresh as curator of Old World Wisconsin, finds herself in the middle of a mystery when a woman looking for a priceless eighteenth-century Norwegian ale bowl dies in a mysterious car crash and Chloe beings to realize that someone is trying to erase all traces of the bowl's existence.
37) State fair
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Folk art museum curator, rancher, and sometime sleuth Benni Harper returns with a long-awaited new mystery that has her attending the San Celina Mid-State Fair-a place for caramel apples and 4-H calves, colorful quilts and homemade jams, and maybe just a little murder...
Author
Publisher
Moody
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1911, the last Yahi Indian walked out of the woods and into modern civilization for the first time. Driven from a life of hiding, Ishi longs for one thing: to tell a secret tale, a fable of his people that only he knows. Allison Morgan understands how important it is to obey the tenets of propriety, especially when her anthropologist husband is entrusted with the care of the last "Stone Age" Indian in North America. Yet something about Ishi stirs...
Author
Series
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Emily Norton loves nothing more than losing herself within the pages of a good book. But the solitary pastime is poor preparation for participating in the dreaded London Season. Her trepidation over formally entering Society is all-encompassing, until she stumbles upon an enigmatic gentleman digging up flowers in a hedgerow. Before she can learn his name or the reason for his unusual activity, however, she is whisked into a carriage bound for London....
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Soon after arriving in Sugartree, Arkansaswhere she spent many lazy, languid childhood summersfolk art expert Benni Harper discovers that there's something seriously sinister brewing in this usually-peaceful town.
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