The holidays can be a killer...
Quilt appraiser Keely Fairchild is thrilled that the Danger Cove Quilt Guild has teamed up with the Historical Museum to make miniature quilts to decorate the museum's Christmas tree. To join in the holiday spirit, she offers free appraisals of holiday quilts during the ornament-making workshop. But when the owner of a Tree of Life quilt is fatally stabbed in the museum's parking lot, Keely finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation! The police think it's a random act of violence, but Keely is convinced it has something to do with the quilt, which is now missing. Everyone is a suspect including the workshop instructor, the instructor's annoying assistant, a shady retired cop, and even the local quilt shop owner who found the body. And don't forget hot local reporter, Matt Viera, who isn't proving to be as reliable as Keely had hoped. Can she count on him to help her solve the case or will he abandon her again...this time to the mercies of a vicious killer?
Whoops! Danger Cove is living up to its name again in the run up to the Christmas Season!
Keely, the quilt appraiser, still doesn't trust herself to do any quilting, but she is happy to help out at the mini quilt ornament workshop, mainly providing free mini appraisals (she tries her hand at cutting and ironing of the tiny quilts and gives up!), everything seems to be going smoothly with people either told what the quilt is probably worth, some told about how to renovate their quilts and some where the suggestion is to get a full appraisal for insurance purposes. Then the final person turns up, an ex-police officer isn't happy to see the young man, nor indeed are some others but Keely shrugs and does the appraisal anyway, and it turns out to be a damaged but good quilt, she gives her verdict and thinks nothing more of it, until the same young man is found dead in the car park with the quilt missing!
The police seem to think it is a case of ne'er do wells falling out but Keely isn't happy with that idea, with the youngest member of the force making jokes about her solving the crime, she sets out to do just that!
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