For quilt appraiser Keely Fairchild, the opportunity to appraise more than a hundred quilts feels almost too good to be true. And then she learns the bad news: the quiltmaker was murdered and the police have no leads. Keely suspects that the quilts hold the key to the dead woman's death as well as to her life. While looking for answers in the quilts, Keely uncovers a variety of suspects, including the greedy heir, a smarmy used-car salesman, a feuding neighbor, and even a rival quiltmaker. As if this project weren't enough to complicate Keely's quiet life, she's also under a short deadline to find new meeting space for the quilters' guild and she's running out of time to decide whether to let charming local reporter Matt Viera into her life. Of course, those other problems may not matter if the quiltmaker's killer strikes again, this time to prevent Keely from finding the clues in the calico.
Keely is finally attempting to sew a quilt, well an appliquéd block at any rate! When a man turns up at the quilt guild, Keely ends up heading out to appraise his late cousin's numerous quilts, the man is expecting major moolah from the quilts and doesn't accept Keely's initial statement that he would be lucky to get a few hundred dollars per quilt (he was expecting another nought on there!), when he tells her not to bother she thinks that is it, until the next day when the museum asks her to do the same job! Apparently everything in the late Miriam's house has been left to the museum and NOT the aforementioned cousin, now Keely finds out that Miriam was killed by a pile of quilts, and there is more than one person who could have, more to the point WOULD have done the deed. Now Keely, along with Matt the reporter, needs to find out the truth or this could be her last ever quilt appraisal!
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