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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...
4) 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.
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.
Author
Series
Mainely needlepoint mystery volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Antique dealer Sarah Byrne has never unspooled the truth about her past to anyone--not even friend and fellow Mainely Needlepointer Angie Curtis. But the enigmatic Aussie finally has the one thing she's searched for all her life--family. And now she and long-lost half-brother, Ted Lawrence, a wealthy old artist and gallery owner in town, are ready to reveal their secret connection. Ted's adult children are suspicious of their newfound aunt Sarah--especially...
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 9
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Embroidery mystery volume 2
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Maggie Singer owns The Seven Year Stitch, an embroidery specialty shop in the small town of Tallulah Falls, Oregon. Trouble strikes when an elderly woman brings an antique piece of embroidery into the shop-and promptly dies of unnatural causes. Now Marcy has to stitch together clues to catch a crafty killer."--Publisher's website.
Author
Series
Haunted yarn shop mystery volume 6
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Caught between two rival shopkeepers who are accusing each other of forging their crafts, Kath Rutledge teams up with the TGIF needlework group and Geneva the ghost to solve an untimely murder.
11) 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...
12) 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. " --
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 9
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Haunted yarn shop mystery volume 5
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It's time for Handmade Blue Plum, an annual arts and crafts fair, and Kath and her knitting group TGIF (Thank Goodness It's Fiber) plan to kick off the festivities with a yarn bombing. But they're not the only ones needling Blue Plum. Bagpiper and former resident Hugh McPhee had just returned after a long absence, yet his reception is anything but cozy. The morning after his arrival, he's found dead in full piper's regalia. Although shaken, Kath and...
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.
16) 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...
Author
Language
English
Description
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to...
18) Hester: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts...
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