Seven Sisters (Benni Harper Series #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 crimes.

When Benni’s stepson announces his plans to marry into the wealthy, influential Brown family, she and her husband are invited to the Browns’ sprawling ranch, Seven Sisters, to celebrate the engagement. But the party takes a tragic turn when a member of the esteemed family is murdered. While trying to unravel the feuding clan’s tangled past, Benni uncovers a shocking pattern of tragedy—and stitches a hodgepodge of clues into a very disturbing design. . .

Seven Sisters, a challenging pattern that features a single six-pointed star surrounded by six identical stars, was most likely inspired by an observation of nature—the Seven Sisters is a loose grouping of stars in the constellation Taurus. Although the stars in the cluster appear to be close together, they are, in fact, quite far apart.

While trying to unravel a feuding family's tragic past, Benni uncovers a shocking pattern of tragedy-and stitches a hodgepodge of clues into a very disturbing design.

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Fowler's seventh Benni Harper mystery involves a unique quilting pattern, the "seven sisters," in a "nicely convoluted plot." "If the "gol-dang book wasn't so gosh-darn homespun it would have been a better read." "I learned a lot about quilt patterns." A "not very thrilling" tale "about murder (but you know who did it), blackmail (and you know who did it) and small-town California (and you don't care about it)."

Earlene Fowler was raised in La Puente, California, and now lives in Southern California with her husband.