On her morning jog, Portia Paltrow comes upon the dead body of antiques store owner and college professor Owen Hill, sprawled across the back doorstep of Selma Parker's fabric and quilt shop on Elderberry Road. The site of their Saturday morning quilting bee just became a crime scene. Violent crime is rare in the charming village of Crestwood, Kansas, and rumors are soon circulating of a burglary gone wrong. But who would rob a quilt shop? No, Owen Hill has been murdered.
Selma and her assistant manager Susan are understandably at loose ends over the crime. So while the tightly knit covey of quilters—who range from a new mother to a wise octogenarian—work together on a Crystal Pattern quilt for Selma's store's anniversary, they also get busy stitching together a patchwork of clues. But they'd better work fast—before a crafty killer bolts . . .
Sally Goldenbaum has done it again with this new series!
A group of quilters meet on a Saturday at the local quilt/fabric shop on Elderberry Road, they range from a graduate student through to an elderly, yet feisty!, lady, one of the members is Portia (Po) Paltrow, a widow, who on jogging down there one Saturday feels ... strange, she realises why when she stumbles across the dead body of Owen Hill, one of her late husband's colleagues from the local college. The police believe this is a burglary gone wrong, especially when the arrest a man who has Owen's watch and credit cards, but when he provides an alibi and then a local lawyer is run down, everyone wants to find out the truth, then there is another killing and people are running scared.
It seems to be up to this group of ladies to patch together the clues and find a cold blooded killer!
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