Broken Dishes: A Benni Harper Mystery - Hardcover

Earlene Fowler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587247070 ISBN 13: 9781587247071

Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

An Agatha Award-winning Series

When Benni Harper's friend passes away, he leaves his Broken DIS ranch to his daughter and her husband, who turn it into a dude ranch. Their intentions are good, but business isn't. Benni comes to the rescue, and soon, she and her family are cooking, quilting, and horseback riding with a whole slew of Western tenderfoots. But the West gets a little too wild when one of the ranch dogs discovers a human bone on the property.

About this title

About the Author:

Earlene Fowler was raised in La Puente, California, by a Southern mother and a Western father. She lives in Southern California with her husband, Allen, a purple pickup truck, and many pairs of cowboy boots. She is currently working on the next Benni Harper mystery.

From Publishers Weekly:

In Fowler's 11th Benni Harper mystery (after 2003's Sunshine and Shadow), one of the best yet in this well-written cozy series, quilter Benni comes to the rescue of Shawna and Johnny Abbot, the new owners of the Broken DIS (aka the Broken Dishes) cattle ranch, now converted to a guest ranch. The opening of the retreat goes smoothly, until a makeshift grave is discovered during the ladies' first trail ride. Finding a dead body, albeit skeletal, around Benni is nothing new, and neither is the arrival of Detective Ford "Hud" Hudson—their paths have crossed before, and not to the liking of Benni's luscious Latino hubby, Police Chief Gabe Ortiz. Gabe's presence at the Broken Dishes insures more testosterone-fueled battles than the ones already boiling between Johnny and head wrangler Whip. Rumors that a syndicated travel critic is secretly among the ranch's first guests add to the staff's already abundant distress, and tempers and tensions stretch to their absolute limits. Plenty of exciting PG-rated action—some mild flirtation and innuendo is as sexy as it gets—will keep the reader turning the pages, while Fowler's sense of humor crops up in character names like Kitty Katz and Bunny Hopp, as well as in Benni's wise and witty personality.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1587247070
• ISBN 13: 9781587247071
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 405