Reviews
""Till The Cows Come Home is a bright and engaging read full of fascinating rural details and a main character you won't soon forget. Stella Crown, dairy farmer and Harley-Davidson enthusiast, is sharp-tongued, funny, quietly vulnerable, and someone you'd definitely want in your corner. A thoroughly enjoyable tale of modern farm life, corporate and personal greed, and the value of extended family. I look forward to Stella's next adventure."" --Earlene Fowler, author of the Benni Harper series, "Till The Cows Come Home is a bright and engaging read full of fascinating rural details and a main character you won't soon forget. Stella Crown, dairy farmer and Harley-Davidson enthusiast, is sharp-tongued, funny, quietly vulnerable, and someone you'd definitely want in your corner. A thoroughly enjoyable tale of modern farm life, corporate and personal greed, and the value of extended family. I look forward to Stella's next adventure." --Earlene Fowler, author of the Benni Harper series, "Till the Cows Come Home is a marvelously original debut filled with fully drawn characters, a great sense of place, and vivid prose. Clemens takes readers on an unpredictable journey into the heart of farming and country life where evil may wear the face of your neighbor. Till the Cows Come Home is a rare combination of character study and page turner." --Denise Swanson, author of the Scumble River mystery series
Synopsis
Stella Crown works hard and loves her life. She runs her own dairy farm with the trusted help of longtime assistant Howie, rides her Harley on weekends, and has just enough friends to suit her just fine. But on her 29th birthday, things start to change. A neighborhood child dies from a strange and threatening illness, a string of mysterious disasters place Stella and her farm in peril, not to mention her friend Abe showing up with a new woman on his arm, creating emotional confusion all around. When her livestock begins turning up dead, Stella knows someone, or something is out to get her., "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, 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., Praise for Till The Cows Come Home"She's smart. She's tough. She's sexy. She's a dairy farmer? However incongruous Stella Crown's occupation may seem in conjunction with her attributes, Clemens makes her not only believable but admirable."-Booklist"Newcomer Clemens' absorbing mystery thriller explores the impact of runaway development and loss of agricultural land on farmers such as her engaging heroine, motorcycle-riding, 29-year-old Stella Crown." - -Publishers WeeklyStella 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.A past president of Sisters in Crime, Judy Clemens lives in an old farmhouse in rural Ohio with her husband and two children. Till the Cows Come Home is the first of her Agatha and Anthony Award-nominated Stella Crown mysteries.www.judyclemens.com, 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, Set in Pennsylvania dairy country, this absorbing mystery explores the impact of runaway development and loss of agricultural land on farmers such as the engaging heroine, motorcycle-riding Stella Crown. On her 29th birthday, Stella investigates the death of a neighborhood child from a strange illness.
