Sharon Reinan

Four little girls growing up in Cokedale, Colorado, named themselves the Sew Sisters.Now 75 years later they are reunited in nearby Trinidad, Colorado, and continue their friendship.One of them dies and they call on Martha Johnson to figure out why.

This is the 5th in a cozy mystery series featuring Martha Johnson, a widow living in Trinidad, Colorado, as the protagonist.Martha is interested in progeny not ancestry until she visits the site of her grandmother's birth. Coming home to Trinidad she becomes involved in a father/son relationship and finds out how deadly relationships can become.

Martha Johnson, a recent widow, has decided she needs to reach out to new friends and a new hobby. She chose pottery until her teacher is found dead inside his kiln. This leads her to suspect her new friends and to forget about pottery for the time being. This is the 4th book in the Martha Johnson series. Find Preying Preacher, Chili Death, and Bad Beat on Amazon. com

BAD BEAT is the third book in a cozy mystery series featuring Martha Johnson, a recent widow, who lives in a small town in southern Colorado. Martha is unaware that Trinidad was the sex-change capital of the world until a new friend is found murdered. Martha becomes immersed in the world of transsexuals when a young man comes to town looking for the murder victim who had promised him help in becoming a "tranny" as the locals call those who have gone through SRS (sexual reassignment surgery). The first book in the series PREYING PREACHER is set at a small lake in Minnesota where the mutilated body of a defrocked preacher is found. The second book CHILI DEATH finds Martha, now widowed, at her chili farm in Colorado where the body of a crooked contractor is found. The books are written so the reader can follow the clues and find the killer just as Martha does.