At The Full Bobbin, our fabric is color-coded, our stitch circles come with snacks, and our gossip is mostly harmless. That is, until my 85-year-old great-aunt Clara got mugged at a yard sale?for a quilt. Not cash. Not heirlooms. A faded, hand-stitched quilt she'd practically wrestled out of a bin like it was Black Friday at JoAnn's.
And just when I start to think maybe it was all a misunderstanding and we can go back to reorganizing the batiks, the local quilt show judge turns up dead ? strangled with a piece of fabric. Now I'm juggling my shifts, a flood of gossip, and a surprisingly sharp-tongued policeman who thinks my to-do list is adorable. (It is not.)
I'm Maisie Schreffler?inventory manager, reluctant people-pleaser, and now apparently, amateur detective. Because someone's patching lies into this town faster than I can say "chain stitch," and if I don't figure out what's really going on, this year's quilt show might be showcasing a second corpse.
Autorentext
Between the organized mayhem of raising sixteen children and the daily negotiations with a pack of strong-willed basset hounds, Miriam has discovered that real life provides the best material for storytelling. Her award-winning novels, including The Ties that Bind (a humorous peek behind the curtain of large family life) and Letters to Emily (an unconventional historical romance), grew from the same well of experience that taught her to referee sibling disputes and find humor in everyday moments.
With degrees in cross-cultural communication and elementary education tucked in her back pocket, Miriam writes from her small Pennsylvania farm where she tends family (both near and far) and bearded irises with equal patience.
Her writing routine is faithfully supervised by a cat who takes his editorial responsibilities very seriously?often expressing creative differences by strategically positioning himself across the keyboard.
When she's not crafting the next installment in Hannah's saga - the newest, a novella prequel (Before The Cabin: Where The Letters Began), you might find her lacing up running shoes for a peaceful escape or digging in the dirt among her beloved iris beds(she's on a quest to grow 100 varieties before she turns 100)?though whether she's tending flowers or plotting the perfect murder for her upcoming cozy mystery trilogy, only the cat knows for sure.