Agent: Ellen Geiger, Frances Goldin Literary. Berkley Prime Crime, 25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-4-0 Fans of Fowler’s Benni Harper mystery series will welcome this likable sequel to The Saddlemaker’s Wife (2006), which. Fowler demonstrates that such a story can be religious without being sanctimonious, though outrageous authorial manipulation at the conclusion weakens the effect. Police chief Gabe Ortiz, her husband, assures her that everyone in his small hometown will love her, but Benni, whose father, eccentric Aunt Dove and Uncle Arnie are driving from California to be with them, isnt so sure.
None of what happens with these characters or the vividly drawn supporting cast is earthshaking, but together the events make up an appealing panorama of ordinary people trying to live up to their best potential-if they can figure out what it might be. Newly married California museum curator Benni Harper travels to Kansas to meet her in-laws. This time around newly married Benni travels to Kansas to meet her in-laws, the Ortiz family. In addition, Ruby is terribly worried about whether Nash, her own younger brother, can stay off liquor and drugs. Lucas McGavin is restlessly looking for a profession or a woman he can commit to, in particular gentle Ruby McGavin, who’s still hung up on her dead husband, Lucas’s brother. Fans of Fowler’s Benni Harper mystery series will welcome this likable sequel to The Saddlemaker’s Wife (2006), which follows troubled but mainly goodhearted characters in Cardinal, Calif., a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
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