Sunshine and Shadow

One of Benni's favorite mystery writers, Emma Baldwin, has returned to
San Celina, and Benni is thrilled when Emma agrees to display a crazy
quilt that inspired her first novel in the folk art museum's quilt show.
And an old partner of Gabe's from his days on the LAPD comes to call
and is found murdered the next day. When Benni starts getting
threatening phone calls and her truck is vandalized, she realizes that
the murder, her stalker, and that crazy quilt all have something in
common. The question is, will she be able to figure it out before it's
too late?

Fowler is back in stride with this episode, with an intricate plot and
subtle clues. A good read.

Nothing better than a mystery, well yes, a mystery with quilts tossed in for good measure.

Benni doesn't know who is after her. She finds her pickup truck vandalized - spray-painted with insults and its tires slashed. Her frayed nerves get even more so after she is shot at while organizing a quilt show at her gallery. But Beni is a determined woman and won't be stopped until she finds out who is threatening her. Could this dangerous stranger have something to do with husband's past as an undercover police officer? Faced with her own mortality Benni vows she's not going down without a fight!

Ok, aside from two huge continuity errors within the story (one where she skips Easter Sunday and another where Sweetheart hill alternates between being part of her fathers ranch and part of her husbands ranch) that drove me a bit bonkers, this story was great. Flashbacks are not my favourite device, but these were worth it in the end. I knew who the bad guy was from the very start, but it didn't detract at all from my enjoyment of the story.