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Spider Web (2011)

by Earlene Fowler(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0425240983 (ISBN13: 9780425240984)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Berkley Hardcover

series

Benni Harper

review 1: This is one of the best in the Benni Harper mystery series. I've read every one of the series and almost all of Fowler's books. I'm missing only Love, Mercy, which I hope to read soon and her quilt book.Each of the books in the Benni Harper series is named after a quilt block which is probably what attracted me to them. After fifteen books, the characters feel like old friends I visit each time I read. This time Benni was chairperson of the Memory Festival. This first time event proved to be a very popular idea. I wouldn't be surprised to see them spring up across the country soon.Benni's had the festival under control, but her husband, Chief of Police Gabriel Ortiz, was working overtime trying to catch a sniper who was shooting at cops. This seemed to flare up Gabe's PTSD... more. This is the first time Fowler and Benni have dealt with this subject and they both did an excellent job.Benni knew the subject was a delicate one, the chief of police needed to keep a squeaky clean reputation and even though she wanted him to go for help, she dared not say too much about it. Like her gramma Dove always told her, when the time was right, she'd know. Other things were on Benni's mind. She was very suspicious about Lin Snyder who came out of nowhere and seemed to know more about Gabe than a stranger should. Lin also seemed overly curious about Benni. Amid the festival activities, Benni finds time to break into Lin's motel room and search it and she walks face to face into the sniper.There was an excellent, graphic description of what happened in Vietnam from a nurse's perspective. It's time people heard the truth. Benni thought so too.
review 2: Every once in awhile I go back to Fowler's series and pretty much get the same thing, which isn't necessarily a criticism. She follows the same formula: a spunky, likeable heroine in a small town (actually San Luis Obispo, California, but called something else, a la Sue Grafon), living with her husband assorted colorful relations, and running a small folk museum that features some of the quilts from which this series takes its titles. Oh, yes, there's a mystery of sorts as well, a sniper loose in the town, but the mystery is almost an afterthought, and when the the sniper's identity is revealed, I had to think back and remember when they actually appeared in the story. Still, it's well written and a pleasant enough diversion. less

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