Quilted Mystery series by Barbara Graham (#1-5)
Requirements: epub reader, 1.7 MB
Overview: Barbara Graham began making up stories in the third grade and immediately quit learning to multiply and divide. Her motto is “every story needs a dead body and every bed needs a quilt.” Most of her early stories involved her saving the world. Fortunately for all involved, she and her heroic skills have never been put to the test. A prize winning quilter and partner in a pattern company, her quilts have been in calendars and magazines, as well as displayed in shows. She is married to a wonderful man who can do math in his head and is the mother of two perfect sons. She lives in Wyoming.
Genre: Mystery
1. Murder by Serpents (2007)
Spring in East Tennessee is normally the most beautiful of seasons, a time of growth and renewal. Residents of tiny Park County are shocked when it is also a time for murder. When a snake-handling preacher is murdered with his own snakes, Sheriff Tony Abernathy and his wife, Theo, a quilt shop owner, are thrown into the search for a killer. From the beginning of the investigation, it seems like an unlikely choice of weapons. Why kill a man few people even knew existed? The trouble has just begun. Soon the entire sheriff’s department is fighting rising water, more deaths and illegal drugs. Theo aides Tony’s search as she runs her shop, designs a mystery quilt (pattern included), and is mom to their two young sons.
2. Murder by Artifact (2009)
A sweltering heat wave strikes the Smoky Mountains and combines with cold cases of murder, producing work Sheriff Tony Abernathy doesn’t want. He discovers evil in his little county. No one is safe. As he and his tiny force dig into the facts, the pieces don’t fit. Lawn ornaments vanish each night. An anonymous person mails Tony notes and newspaper clippings about people who disappeared twenty years ago. Baffled, Tony finds himself pulled in many directions, including Ohio, searching for answers. His wife, Theo, takes time from designing a new mystery quilt to examine the "murder quilt," an antique donated to the new folk museum. Following the tangled threads of cold cases and new ones, Tony learns the power of history. A single quilt has links to two murdered women. Tony finds more questions than answers. Why was Queen Doreen, the mayor’s unpopular wife, at the museum after closing? Who used an antique flax hackle to kill her? Juggling diverse cases while dealing with the crotchety, cantankerous, adoring and dangerous residents of his small county sends Tony in search of antacids and leaves him little time to watch his children play baseball. Just when it looks like he has things under control, they get worse.
3. Murder by Music (2011)
Autumn brings cooler temperatures to the Smoky Mountains. The weather may be cooling down in tiny Park County, Tennessee, but crime is heating up. Weevil Beasley, the county’s loan shark, dies and the body count begins. Sheriff Tony Abernathy is soon up to the top of his bald head in murder and mayhem. Tony’s wife, Theo, is in the thick of it. Not even the members of her quilting group are immune when she leads them on a thread-filled retreat up at The Lodge. Arriving early for one of the upcoming weddings, a member of their group is murdered. While dealing with cranky quilters, distraught hotel keepers and unfinished projects, Theo has to keep track of gossip for her husband and barely has time to hand out the pattern for her new mystery quilt.
4. Murder by Vegetable (2012)
Spring fever, coupled with a full moon, arrives in tiny Park County, Tennessee, and induces the well-named madness. Unfortunate timing puts the first Ramp Festival during the peak of spring fever. Residents and visitors wander elbow to elbow listening to music, eating vast amounts of food—including the odiferous ramps—watching homemade weapons launch vegetables at a stock tank filled with water and rubber duckies. Chaos, fun and sudden death collide when a flying vegetable hits a partygoer.
5. Murder by Sunlight (2013)
It’s coming up on the Fourth of July in tiny Park County, Tennessee, and Sheriff Tony Abernathy must deal with not just the heat and increased traffic, but a sudden wave of crime. Someone is going around assaulting people in an attempt to find "Bob." A man is found impaled on a tree, and a woman is murdered–by sunlight! Good thing the sheriff’s wife Theo runs the local quilting shop, where she can catch the gossip while a charity quilt is being made.
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