State Fair (Center Point Platinum Mystery) - Hardcover

Fowler, Earlene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1602858039 ISBN 13: 9781602858039

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2010

Synopsis

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. It's the perfect place to go for caramel apples, 4-H calves, exquisite quilts, homemade jams -- and murder!

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 large number of quilts, and twenty pairs of cowboy boots.

From Publishers Weekly

Set in 1997, Fowler's folksy 14th Benni Harper mystery (after 2007's Tumbling Blocks) finds the avid quilter, museum curator, and reluctant sleuth readying herself for the annual San Celina (Calif.) County Mid-State Fair. Racial tensions revolving around the fair's first black general manager, Levi Clark; Levi's half-white daughter, Jazz; and Jazz's various suitors stir the plot. So, too, does the visit from Arkansas of Benni's great-aunt, Garnet Wilcox. Garnet and her sister, Dove, Benni's grandmother, get along like two bobcats trapped in a burning outhouse. A valued African-American quilt stolen from a fair exhibit and a corpse in another exhibit add fuel to the fire. Fowler's congenial mix of humor (prickly, surprising Garnet applies lessons learned from mystery books and cop shows), folklore (the history of black cloth dolls), and murder makes this Agatha Award–winning series as much fun to visit as a county fair and a likely ribbon winner. (May)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Center Point Pub
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602858039
• ISBN 13: 9781602858039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 414