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The thematically appropriate quilting jacket art, however, is too busy and doesn't signal how central romance is to the story.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:41:29 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA133115 Boxid_2 CH120121107-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Curatenote shipped Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. STEPS TO THE ALTAR by Earlene Fowler RELEASE DATE: ApEveryone’s favorite cowgirl, Benni Harper, seems about to have her heart’s desire: to see her best friend, Elvia Aragon, married to her cousin Emory and her Grandma Dove married to longtime love Isaac Lyons. Romantic Times as well as handselling to romance readers could help Fowler expand beyond her core audience. Steps to the Altar: Ninth in the Agatha Award-winning series, this book finds a California folk art expert Benni Harper preparing for two upcoming weddings. Will Benni solve the old murder? Will her marriage survive the lust of Del Hernandez-and the come-ons to herself from an acerbic sheriff's deputy? Will her best friend, cousin and grandmother all make it to their respective altars, fulfilling the prophecy of the Steps to the Altar quilt made for one couple? The answers to these questions make delicious reading, with plenty of passion, snappy dialogue and a whiz-bang plot. Maple fled before her husband's body was found, but she's been found 'guilty' in the town's conscience and gossip ever since. Though asked only to catalogue the items, Benni becomes fascinated by the potential murder charge against Maple Sullivan, Garvey's widow. In a story sewn together as tightly as a traditional quilt, Agatha Awardwinner Fowler delivers superior cozy entertainment in her ninth Benni Harper. Just as Benni doesn't think she can keep one more plate spinning in her busy life, two crises crop up: first, Del starts deliberately going after Gabe-and lets Benni know it second, Benni is asked to inventory four trunks full of materials possibly related to the decades-old bludgeoning death of wealthy Garvey Sullivan. In the California coastal town of San Celina, there are weddings and wished-for weddings, plus the threatened demise of Benni's two-year marriage to police chief Gabe Ortiz, brought about by the appearance of Gabe's former female partner, Del Hernandez. In a story sewn together as tightly as a traditional quilt, Agatha Award–winner Fowler delivers superior cozy entertainment in her ninth Benni Harper mystery (after 2001's Arkansas Traveler). Berkley Prime Crime, 2002 - Fiction - 307 pages.

Steps to the Altar by Earlene Fowler