Earlene Fowler

A Benni Harper Mystery

1 - Fool's Puzzle (May-1994)
2 - Irish Chain (Mar-1995)
3 - Kansas Troubles (May-1996)
4 - Goose in the Pond (May-1997)
5 - Dove in the Window (May-1998)
6 - Mariner's Compass (May-1999)
7 - Seven Sisters (Apr-2000)
8 - Arkansas Traveler (Mar-2001)
9 - Steps to the Altar (Apr-2002)
10 - Sunshine and Shadow (May-2003)
11 - Broken Dishes (May-2004)
12 - Delectable Mountains (May-2005)
13 - Tumbling Blocks (May-2007)
14 - State Fair (May-2010)
15 - Spider Web (May-2011)

Ruby McGavin

1 - The Saddlemaker's Wife (May-2006)
2 - The Road to Cardinal Valley (Jan-2013)

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  Fool's Puzzle
  

  • May-1994
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 1
  

  Meet Benni Harper... a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cr...

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  Irish Chain
  

  • Mar-1995
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 2
  

  Meet Benni Harper... a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cr...

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  Kansas Troubles
  

  • May-1996
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 3
  

  Meet Benni Harper...a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs-and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cri...

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  Goose in the Pond
  

  • May-1997
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 4
  

  Meet Benni Harper... a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cr...

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  Dove in the Window
  

  • May-1998
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 5
  

  Meet Benni Harper...a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs-and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cri...

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  Mariner's Compass
  

  • May-1999
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 6
  

  Meet Benni Harper...a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs-and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cri...

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  Seven Sisters
  

  • Apr-2000
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 7
  

  Meet Benni Harper...a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs-and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cri...

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  Arkansas Traveler
  

  • Mar-2001
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 8
  

  Meet Benni Harper...a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs-and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cri...

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  Steps to the Altar
  

  • Apr-2002
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 9
  

  Meet Benni Harper...a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. Steps to the Altar finds her digging up clues to an unsolved murder--and struggling with a very personal crisi...

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  Sunshine and Shadow
  

  • May-2003
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 10
  

  Benni Harper is back. Once a cowgirl, she's now an expert quilter--and sometime crimesolver--in the Agatha Award-winning series. Now, she must stitch together a story from her past with a crime in the present... One of Benni's favorite mystery write...

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  Broken Dishes
  

  • May-2004
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 11
  

  In this new novel in the bestselling series, Benni Harper wears multiple hats--as a cowgirl and a detective--roping in guests and suspects during one mystery-filled western week... Benni's friend and her husband have decided to open a dude ranch. ...

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  Delectable Mountains
  

  • May-2005
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 12
  

  Benni Harper plays it by ear in this new novel in the national bestselling series, as she gets dragged into a musical mission of mercy in which murder hits a sour note... When the musical director of Benni's church is called away, Benni's gramma D...

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  The Saddlemaker's Wife
  

  • May-2006
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Ruby McGavin - 1
  

  After the death of her husband Cole, Ruby McGavin is shocked to learn that she's inherited part of a cattle ranch in Tokopah County, California. But she's even more surprised to find out that the family he claimed died years ago is very much alive. ...

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  Tumbling Blocks
  

  • May-2007
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 13
  

  Benni Harper is carrying a bundle of holiday stress--as she unveils an elite and possibly murderous society... San Celina's most exclusive society suddenly has an opening. And Benni Harper has been tapped--not to join, but to investigate. The uppe...

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  Love Mercy
  

  • Mar-2009
  • / General Fiction
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  A year after her husband's death, Love Mercy Johnson still listens for his comforting laugh. But Love's life is satisfying enough in Morro Bay, California -- and with her friends' help, she's trying to move on. Long estranged from her grandchildre...

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  State Fair
  

  • May-2010
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 14
  

  For Benni, the annual San Celina Mid-State Fair is a much anticipated break in her normal routine of overseeing museum exhibits, temperamental artists and stubborn cattle. This year there is a special showing of traditional African American quilts. W...

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  Spider Web
  

  • May-2011
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Benni Harper Mystery - 15
  

  The Memory Festival is a celebration of recollections and loved ones through crafts. But 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 c...

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  The Road to Cardinal Valley
  

  • Jan-2013
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Ruby McGavin - 2
  

  In this heartfelt and poignant follow-up to Earlene Fowler’s national bestseller, The Saddlemaker’s Wife, Ruby McGavin returns to the small town of Cardinal, California, where a year ago she brought her husband’s ashes back to his family’s ra...

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Award-Winning Books by Earlene Fowler

Arkansas Traveler
2001 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Amateur Sleuth
Mariner's Compass
1999 Agatha Award -- Novel