A quilt of a different color : A harriet turman/loose threads mystery, book 13

What do a quilter, a homeless veteran and the stage mother of a riding student have in common? They all want a disabled lecherous riding teacher dead. The Miller Hill Equestrian Center is the last place Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads want to spend the cold months of winter but when the Center's manager asks them to sew decorative quilted saddle blankets for an upcoming show, they can't refuse. They soon find themselves in the middle of the mix and once more trying to unstitch a murder The new year is unusually cold in Foggy Point, Washington. As a result, the new manager of the equestrian center asks Harriet Truman and her quilt group The Loose Threads to make a special type of saddle blanket designed to keep a horse's kidneys warm while they are ridden in the cold. As Harriet and Jenny's foster kids board their horses there, the Threads agree. They soon find themselves getting more involved at the stable, volunteering for the equine therapy program the local homeless veterans participate in. The quilters quickly discover that the wheelchair bound husband of the new stable manager, Simon, not only teaches children to ride, but he gropes them every chance he gets. The local homeless veterans are invited to participate in a horse therapy program at the stable and the quilters volunteer to help. It quickly becomes clear that one of the veterans has a past history with Simon and it isn't a good one. Tension at the stables is rising, as Simon's behavior continues to offend. Harriet and the Threads decide to spend more time observing riding classes, preventing Simon from having time alone with the female students. Their guard duty comes to an end almost before it begins when someone puts a more permanent end to Simon's bad behavior. More than one person had reason to wish him dead, but who did the deed? "A Franciscan friar, serving in Spanish California suffers a very unpleasant death. Poisoning by the natives is suggested. A paranoid search for the poisoner sets up a dramatic series of events, accusations, imprisonment and conflict (the foregoing facts documented historical happening) between two of the main characters of the story. Ultimately Father Francis Ibarra, the main character, through some assiduous medical sleuthing proves that murder was in fact not the cause of death." -- Provided by publisher