NO CHARM INTENDED
Settling into her new life and career in small-town
Indigo Gap, North Carolina, Cora Chevalier is
preparing to host a “wildcrafting” retreat at her
Victorian home. But a specter hangs over the venture
when beloved local nanny Gracie Wyke goes missing.
Amidst leading their guests in nature hikes, rock
painting, and making clay charms, Cora and her business
partner, Jane, team up with Gracie’s boyfriend, Paul,
to launch their own investigation into her
disappearance when the local police prove unhelpful.
Cora and her crafters take Paul in, believing he is
in danger and not the suspect police have made him
out to be. However as they uncover new clues and
a body turns up at a local abandoned amusement park,
Cora and Jane begin to question their decision.
With more questions than answers arising,
is Cora crafty enough to untangle a knot that
could put an innocent in jail—and permanently
destroy her reputation?
DEATH AMONG THE DOILIES
For thirty-something blogger Cora Chevalier,
small-town Indigo Gap, North Carolina, seems like
the perfect place to reinvent her life. Shedding a
stressful past as a counselor for a women’s shelter,
Cora is pouring all her talents—and most of her
savings—into a craft retreat business, with help from
close pal and resident potter Jane Starr. Between
transforming her Victorian estate into a crafter’s
paradise and babysitting Jane’s daughter, the new
entrepreneur has no time for distractions. Especially
rumors about the murder of a local school librarian . . .
But when Jane’s fingerprints match those found at the
grisly crime scene, Cora not only worries about her
friend, but her own reputation. With angry townsfolk
eager for justice and both Jane’s innocence and the
retreat at risk, she must rely on her creative chops to
unlace the truth behind the beloved librarian’s disturbing
demise. Because if the killer’s patterns aren’t pinned,
Cora’s handiwork could end up in stitches ...
SCRAPBOOK OF SECRETS
Having traded in her career as a successful
investigative journalist for the life of a stay-at-home
mom in picturesque Cumberland Creek, Virginia,
Annie can’t help but feel that something’s missing.
But she finds solace in a local “crop circle” of
scrapbookers united by chore-shy husbands, demanding
children, and occasional fantasies of their former single
lives. And when the quiet idyll of their small town is
shattered by a young mother’s suicide, they band
together to find out what went wrong ...
Annie resurrects her reporting skills and discovers that
Maggie Rae was a closet scrapbooker who left behind
more than a few secrets—and perhaps a few enemies.
As they sift through Maggie Rae’s mysteriously
discarded scrapbooks, Annie and her “crop” sisters
begin to suspect that her suicide may have been murder.
It seems that something sinister is lurking beneath
the town’s beguilingly calm façade—
like a killer with unfinished business ...
SCRAPPED
The ladies of the Cumberland Scrapbook Crop
are welcoming an eccentric newbie into their fold.
A self-proclaimed witch, Cookie Crandall can
whip up a sumptuous vegan meal and rhapsodize about
runes and moon phases with equal aplomb. She becomes
fast friends with her fellow scrapbookers, including
freelance reporter Annie, with whom she shares shallow
roots in a community of established family trees.
So when Cookie becomes the prime suspect
in a series of bizarre murders, the croppers get
scrappy and set out to clear her name ...
Annie starts digging and discovers that the victims each
had strange runic patterns carved on their bodies—
a piece of evidence that points the police in Cookie’s
direction. Even her friends begin to doubt her innocence
when they find an ornate, spiritual scrapbook that an
alleged beginner like Cookie could never have crafted.
As Annie and the croppers search for answers, they’ll
uncover a shockingly wicked side of their once quiet
town—and a killer on the prowl for another victim ...
DEATH OF AN IRISH DIVA
Spring is in the air, but the ladies of the
Cumberland Creek Scrapbook Crop hardly have time
to stop and smell the roses. Not when famed
Irish dancer Emily McGlashen is found murdered
in her studio just after the St. Patrick’s Day parade—
and one of the Crop’s own members is the
prime suspect. Vera’s dance studio may have suffered
when Emily waltzed into town, but the croppers know
she’s not a vengeful murderer. Lucky for her,
co-scrapbooker Annie is a freelance reporter eager to
vindicate her friend. What she discovers is a puzzling
labyrinth of secrets that only add question marks to
Emily’s murder. Just when it seems they’ve run out of
clues, an antique scrapbook turns up and points the
croppers in the right direction—and brings them face to
face with a killer more twisted than a Celtic knot ...
SCRAPPY SUMMER
Summer’s in full swing, and it’s time once again
for the Cumberland Creek County Fair Pie Competition.
DeeAnn Fields just knows this is her year to finally
win with her brilliant apple green chili pie.
But after the judges take one bite and spit it back out,
ordering DeeAnn to leave at once, she’s baffled
as to what went wrong ... until she discovers
someone sabotaged her pie.
Banding together to find out who hated DeeAnn enough
to ruin her chances of winning, the ladies of the
Cumberland Scrapbook Crop scrap their summer plans
to get to the bottom of this mystery so that they can
return to what they do best—cropping and crafting!
SCRAPPILY EVER AFTER
Springtime may be for lovers, but for one of the ladies
of the Cumberland Creek Scrapbook Crop, it’s turning
into a season of conflict. Still smarting from her divorce,
Vera can’t decide whether to accept a marriage proposal.
She doesn’t want to spoil a good thing by putting
another ring on her finger. On the other hand,
her mother Beatrice has flown off to France with the
man of her dreams. But when folks claim to have seen
Bea around town and Vera can’t reach her, she starts to
search for her mother. Is Bea still in France?
And if not, what has happened to her?
As Vera tries to solve the mystery of her missing mother,
other problems crop up for the scrapbookers,
including a health crisis in Sheila’s family and a surprise
announcement from Paige’s son. If only life could be as
neat and pretty as a scrapbook album! Some of the
answers to their recent dilemmas will bring surprises
that the croppers could never have predicted!
/> SCRAPBOOK OF THE DEAD
Halloween means spooky scrapbooks for the
Cumberland Creek Scrapbook Crop, but what’s been
happening around town is truly frightening.
First a dead woman is found in the freezer at
Pamela’s Pie Palace, and the next day a
second woman is found murdered by the river.
Reporter Annie Chamovitz learns the victims
were sisters and is certain their deaths are linked.
Most bizarre of all, both women were found
clutching scrapbook pages.
As their Saturday night crop quickly becomes an
opportunity to puzzle out the murders, the ladies
begin to wonder if Pamela is hiding more than
her secret recipes for delicious pies—or if the crimes
are related to the startling discovery that there are
gangs in Cumberland Creek. As All Hallows Eve
approaches, the crafty croppers must cut and paste
the clues to unmask a deadly killer.
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