num_pages: 256
description: Leaving behind memories of her late husband, Benni Harper is making a fresh start...Moving to the trendy California town of San Celina, she takes an exciting new job as director of a folk-art museum. While setting up an exhibit of handmade quilts, she stumbles upon the body of a brutally stabbed artist. Hoping to conduct an investigation on her own, she crosses paths with the local police chief, who thinks this short and sassy cowgirl should leave detecting to the cops and join him for dinner. But it's hard to keep a country girl down, and soon Benni uncovers an alarming pattern of family secrets, small-town lies--and the shocking truth about the night her husband died...
language: English
title: Fool's Puzzle
titlecomplete: Fool's Puzzle (Benni Harper, #1)
genres: Cozy Mystery, Quilting, Mystery, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 5300
places: California
series: Benni Harper
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Berkley