About This Book
As the daughter of a book editor for a major publishing house, Betty Orlemann grew up in a home filled with good books and the love of reading and writing. Her novel, WHO KILLED ANNIE?, is the first in a mystery series about Hattie Farwell and her old homestead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Betty Orlemann has spent much of her life as a journalist. Until her recent retirement she was a staff writer for the Bucks County Courier Times for whom she covered criminal courts in the Bucks County Courthouse. In addition she has been writing a biweekly column for the Delaware Valley News in Frenchtown, New Jersey, for 17 years. She also contributes features to The Morning Call (Quakertown Bureau) of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Her other activities have served as grist for her writing mill, she says. During college years she taught ballroom dancing in Philadelphia, later she was a medical technician and much later co-owned a gift and antique shop and was elected the first woman president of the Greater Glenside Chamber of Commerce. She founded The Friends of the Delaware Canal and is a commissioner on the Delaware and Lehigh National Corridor Commission and State Heritage Park. Betty Orlemann and her late husband, Bob, were the parents of four children, three of whom, two sons and one daughter, reached maturity and eventually made them grandparents. There are now nine grandchildren, seven boys and two girls, one great-grandson and another on the way. Betty lives with her dog and cat in a cedar woods in Tinicum Township, Bucks County.
