Quilt or Innocence - A Southern Quilting Mystery

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Craig Klappentext Retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman knows everything there is to know about quilts! except how to make them. But with her recent move to Dapple Hills! North Carolina! she's learning all sorts of new things-including how to solve a murder… As the newest member of the Village Quilters Guild! Beatrice has a lot of gossip to catch up on-especially with the Patchwork Cottage quilt shop about to close. It seems that Judith! the landlord everyone loves to hate! wants to raise the rent! despite being a quilter herself… But when Judith is found dead! the harmless gossip becomes an intricate patchwork of mischievous motives. And it's up to Beatrice's expert eye to decipher the pattern and catch the killer! before her life gets sewn up for good. Includes quilting tips! Chapter 1 “I’ve come to rescue you,” said the wild-looking woman at Beatrice’s front door. Beatrice, a recently retired art museum curator, gaped at the woman, completely flabbergasted. She certainly didn’t need rescuing. In fact, she’d just brewed a relaxing cup of herbal tea to celebrate the fact that there were only ten more moving boxes to unpack in her new cottage. Besides, who’d want to be rescued by this woman, even if rescuing were in order? She looked like she needed rescuing herself . . . with her brightly colored, mismatched clothes and disorganized gray braid hanging to her waist. Beatrice made up her mind to briskly and firmly shut the door and try out the new bolts and chains and the alarm system . . . but then the woman held out her hand. “I’m Meadow. Your next-door neighbor. Welcome to Dappled Hills!” Beatrice managed a smile and a handshake. She’d wondered who lived in the odd converted barn next to her country cottage. Beatrice’s daughter, Piper, who lived right down the street, had warned her that her neighbor was a little different , and she saw exactly what Piper meant. Now Meadow clutched her arm and pulled her outside. “Come on, Beatrice. You’ll miss it!” Beatrice pulled back. Wasn’t this how kidnappings happened? How could she possibly be abducted in tiny Dappled Hills, North Carolina, when she’d been safe for so many years in Atlanta? “I’m sorry, Meadow,” she said with dignity. (She would not be a victim!) “But I’m going to have to insist that I stay at home. I just brewed some chamomile tea and need to put my feet up after all the rigorous unpacking I’ve accomplished . . .” But her words were completely wasted on Meadow, and Beatrice found herself being propelled with surprising strength toward the bright red barn on the spacious property next door. And Meadow wasn’t letting her slide a word in edgewise. “We’re all practically here,” she said inexplicably. “The unpacking is exactly what I’m rescuing you from. And everything is set out. I have tea, too, but it’s sweet.” With great relief, Beatrice saw a police car pulling into Meadow’s driveway. Well, at least Dappled Hills had a very responsive police unit. She waved her free arm in what she hoped was an alarmed, help-seeking fashion. A short, balding man climbed out of the patrol car. He had a tired stoop to his shoulders and a stomach that had seen its share of heavy Southern cooking. “Is there a problem here, ma’am?” Beatrice blinked as Meadow leaned over and gave the policeman a peck on the lips. “No problem, Ram-say. Except remember that I told you the guild is meeting here this afternoon. So don’t devour our snacks, please. I put some pretzels in a Baggie for you.” He shook his head wearily. “I was asking if the other lady had a problem. Ma’am? Everything all right? Meadow, for pity’s sake! Could you let her go for a minute? You’ve scared her half to death. Is this our new neighbor?” Beatrice nodded, and the policeman held out his hand. “Ramsay Downey. I’m Dapp...

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Craig
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.06.2012
• EAN: 9780451237330
• ISBN: 978-0-451-23733-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 171 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Southern Quilting Mystery; Southern Quilting Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense