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Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 18
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After a tree falls on Tom Riordan's house and lands him in the hospital, the police discover a mountain of junk piled in his home. Locals in Excelsior, Minnesota -- including Betsy Devonshire and her Crewel World Monday Bunch -- offer to help clean up while Tom recuperates. Then Tom is found murdered in his hospital bed, and his cousin Valentina--the sole heir to his property--becomes the number one suspect. Betsy believes there's more to the case...
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 19
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The Monday Bunch and other local knitters are participating in a fund-raising auction to save a community center, creating a growing pile of stuffed animals and toys right in front of the auctioneers as the audience bids. Among those contributing the most knitted goods is temperamental businesswoman Maddy Hanover—who keels over halfway through the event. After she is pronounced DOA, an autopsy reveals that Maddy had been poisoned. But how? And by...
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 17
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Even though running Crewel World keeps Betsy plenty busy, a little extra cash on the side doesn't hurt. So when the local senior complex, Watered Silk, asks her to teach a class on the tricky punchneedle technique, Betsy jumps at the opportunity to win over some new customers. Unfortunately, the business that Betsy drums up is not of the needlework variety. A young woman is found floating in Watered Silk's therapy pool, and Betsy's sleuthing skills...
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Needlework shop owner and part-time sleuth Betsy Devonshire finds a Nazi skeleton buried beneath the floorboards of an old cabin she is renovating and works to uncover a decades-old crime.
6) Crewel world
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Betsy's sister is murdered in her own needlecraft store, Betsy takes over the shop and the investigation. But to find the murderer, she'll have to put together a list of motives and suspects to figure out this killer's pattern of crime... Includes a beautiful embroidery pattern!
7) Threadbare
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an elderly homeless woman is found dead on the shore of Lake Minnetonka, she's wearing something that holds the key to her identity but also opens up a mystery. Embroidered on her blouse is her will, in which she bequeaths everything she owns to her niece Emily Hame, a member of the Monday Bunch at Betsy's Crewel World needlework shop! Emily's aunt turns out to be the second homeless woman to be found dead under mysterious circumstances. It's...
8) Thai die
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, Betsy Devonshire must put her sleuthing talents to work when one of her regular customers unwittingly becomes embroiled in a deadly delivery of exotic antiquities.
9) Cutwork
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an artisan is murdered at the Excelsior, Minnesota, art fair, everyone is on pins and needles. It's up to needlework shop owner Betsy Devonshire to figure out who had designs on the dead designer.
10) Framed in lace
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a ferry that sank in 1949 is raised from the bottom of the lake, containing the skeleton of a murdered woman, needlecraft expert Betsy Devonshire holds the key to the crime when she is asked to identify the only clue, a piece of unusual lace-like fabric.
11) And then you dye
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Betsy Devonshire, full-time owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, investigates the murder of yarn maker Hailey Brent who had a penchant for stealing other's property for her own use.
12) Blackwork
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In the town of Excelsior, Minnesota, Leona Cunningham, owner of a popular microbrewery, is a practitioner of Wicca, the nature-based religion often mistaken for black magic. But that doesn't bother the thirsty crowds. Then, after one too many pints, a local blames Leona for the series of 'accidents' that have happened throughout town. When he ends up dead without a mark on his body, Leona's the main suspect. But Betsy's on the case, and that spells...
13) Crewel yule
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
14) Sins and needles
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 9
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 6
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Needlecraft shop owner Betsy Devonshire tries to unravel the truth surrounding a five-year-old double murder and clear the name of her new roofer and friend, Foster Johns, in a mystery accompanied by a counted cross stitch pattern.
17) A murderous yarn
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 5
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
At this year's antique car race, one of the drivers never makes it to the finish line. His car is found in flames, and Betsy and her friends must pin down a suspect.
18) A stitch in time
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a damaged tapestry is discovered in a small-town church closet, needleworkers join to stitch together the clues which lead to a crafty crime.
19) Unraveled sleeve
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 4
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
20) Sew far, so good
Author
Series
A Needlecraft Mystery volume 4-6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Shop owner and part-time sleuth Betsy Devonshire has a knack for stumbling upon dead bodies?and it?s entangled her in more than one knotty situation. Here in one volume are three of Betsy?s adventures as a not-so-seamless investigator. " --
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