Earlene Fowler

Monthly mystery fiction discussion group at a neighborhood library. Participants are encouraged to read the same mystery novel in advance of the meeting, to discuss as a group. Participants are also encouraged to bring a small dessert selection to share with other readers during the meeting. Coffee and/or ... (more)juice will be provided. This month's selected mystery novel: "Delectable Mountains" by Earlene Fowler, one of her Benni Harper series.

1 - 3pm

signs Spider Web (Berkley $25.95) in a special Mother's Day Event. Bring your mom or your daughter(s) and we'll party hearty with Benni Harper and the the San Celina gang. Special San Celina Prizes and Refreshments About SPIDER WEB... Benni and the ladies of her Coffin Star Quilt Guild are excited to ... (more)display their Graveyard Quilt (inspired by Elizabeth Rosemary Mitchell's famous historic quilt) at the first ever San Celina, California, Memory Festival. The fair promises to be a wonderful and moving event celebrating memories through quilts, crafts, scrapbooks, photographs, written word, oral histories and tributes to loved ones. But when a local cop is wounded by a mysterious sharp shooter who seems to have a vendetta against the police, Benni fears for her own loved ones--especially her police chief husband, Gabe. The shooting sets off post-traumatic stress disorder in Gabe, who starts having violent nightmares. Troubled by her husband's emotional trauma and a mysterious new San Celina resident--a woman who knows too much about Gabe's past--Benni is drawn into the search for the sniper, determined to make her hometown safe again...before their peaceful street fair becomes a shooter's deadly target range. 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. Benni Harper 1. Fool's Puzzle (1994) 2. Irish Chain (1995) 3. Kansas Troubles (1996) 4. Goose in the Pond (1997) 5. Dove in the Window (1998) 6. Mariner's Compass (1999) 7. Seven Sisters (2000) 8. Arkansas Traveler (2001) 9. Steps to the Altar (2002) 10. Sunshine and Shadow (2003) 11. Broken Dishes (2004) 12. Delectable Mountains (2005) 13. Tumbling Blocks (2007) 14. State Fair (2010) SIGNED 15. Spider Web Signed (2011)

Earlene Fowler writes a delightful mystery series full of quilting detail. Sunriver puts on a wing-ding quilt show in August; we thought it would be a good month to read an Earline Fowler book. Instead of reading one of her quilting series, we are discussing her new book, The Saddlemaker’s Wife, for ... (more)this month’s Mystery Book Club selection.

Author signings held before at 11:30.

Authors from the 10:30 AM panels and from the 12:00 PM panels.