The Killer Wore A Red Hat Author:Betty Orlemann THE KILLER WORE A RED HAT Who is the young teenage boy who swears like a trooper and seems to be aiming all of his venom at Hattie and Wolf? Why are he and his grandmother so bitterly angry at Hattie? Who is the skinny woman in the red hat and purple pants suit who seems to be stalking one of the Red Hat members on the river bank? Hattie, her ni... more »ece and nephew and Lt. Jim Sawyer and his wife, Benita dig deep for answers in Hattie Farwell's latest adventure. 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 mystery series about Hattie Farwell and her old homestead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania has long been a favorite with readers. 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 and hosts her own radio show on WDVR FM, Sergeantsville, New Jersey. 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 Heritage 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 and two great-grandsons. Betty lives with her dog and cat in a cedar woods in Tinicum Township, Bucks County.« less