num_pages: 304
description: "She's smart. She's tough. She's sexy. She's a dairy farmer?"― Booklist Stella Crown works hard and loves her life. She runs her own Pennsylvania dairy farm with the trusted help of longtime farmhand Howie who stuck with her after her parents died. She rides her Harley on the weekends, and has just enough friends to suit her fiercely independent nature. But on her 29th birthday, things start to change. A local child dies from a strange and threatening illness, a string of mysterious disasters place Stella and her farm in peril, and her childhood friend Abe shows up with a new woman on his arm. It seems like bad luck run amok, but when her livestock begins turning up dead, Stella knows that something, or someone, is out to get her. Agatha and Anthony Award Nominee for Best First Novel
language: English
title: Till the Cows Come Home
titlecomplete: Till the Cows Come Home (Stella Crown Mystery, #1)
characters: Nick Hathaway, Abe Granger, Bart Watts, Hubert Purcell, Ma Granger, Zach Granger, Stella Crown, Howie Archer, Detective Willard, Pam Moyer, Dr. Carla Beaumont, Lenny Spruce
genres: Fiction, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 191
places: Rural Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
series: Stella Crown Mystery
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Poisoned Pen Press