KDL Recommends

A series of clues and revelations documenting an artist’s mysterious fate, presented in collage-style newspaper clippings, e-mails, and private writings, invites readers to search its pages for visual and verbal clues.

A novel in colorful postcards and letters depicts the enigmatic relationship between British artist Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem, a mysterious woman living on a Pacific island who can see Griffin as he works in London.
Griffin & Sabine Series

When two very different women stop to help a stranger in trouble, they are drawn together by their love of knitting, and help each other overcome grief and loss as their friendship grows.

A close-knit group of settled small-town ladies bands together to help each other through their most difficult life passage — middle age.

In this heartwarming debut novel, Sarah, struggling to find a job and a sense of place in her new town, finds herself learning how to quilt from a cantankerous old woman who also teaches her about the deep love that can exist between friends.
Elm Creek Quilts Series

Scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand turns sleuth when her estranged husband is accused of murdering a powerful New Orleans businessman, and amidst clippings, patterns, and pictures finds a clue that will prove his innocence.
Scrapbooking Series

Solving a murder is a lot more interesting than knitting, but with many suspects and a second corpse, this deadly tapestry gets complex for Jane.
Jane Jeffry Series

An evocation of the day-to-day life of women in the Civil War era follows Alice, whose husband has left their Iowa farm for the war, as she copes with the farm and lives normally, until suddenly being accused of murder.

A nostalgic holiday story follows seven months in the lives of a farming family in the mountains of north Georgia as they share family dinners, berry pickings, revival meetings, and a grandmother’s quilting work for an absent son.

When her sister Margot turns up dead in her own needlecraft store in Excelsior, Minnesota, Betsy Devonshire launches her own investigation into the murder, uncovering an array of suspects ranging from an ambitious former employee to a greedy landlord.
Needlecraft Mystery Series

Benni Harper starts over as curator of a folk-art museum after her husband’s death, but when an artist is found dead and her cousin is accused, the clues lead to a different truth about her husband’s death.
Benni Harper Series

When Angie Archer, her unpopular upstairs tenant, turns up drowned in the harbor, Isabel “Izzy” Chambers, owner of a knitting shop in the village of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, and her friends, the Seaside Knitters, investigate the suspicious death.
Seaside Knitters Mystery Series

Eight spirited quilters with a surprising talent for sleuthing take on their first adventure when a body is found in Selma Parker’s quilt shop.
Queen Bee Mystery Series

During the local Dollhouse and Miniatures Fair, Geraldine Porter, the chairwoman of this illustrious event, gets into big trouble when she is faced with strange occurrences and murder, all of which lead to her friend Linda Reed.
Miniature Mystery Series

Bakerhaven Police Chief Dale Harper is perplexed by a piece of evidence in his first murder investigation — an apparent crossword puzzle clue found on the body of a teenage girl — so he recruits the town’s famed “Puzzle Lady,” the eccentric author of a weekly syndicated crossword puzzle column.
Puzzle Lady Series

A small Midwest town fills with doubt and suspicion as Bretta Solomon, a widowed flower shop owner, begins to investigate the mysterious death of an Amish farmer who has always supplied her with her best flowers.
Gardening Series

Grieving over the sudden loss of her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island, whose members not only teach her a variety of knitting techniques but also valuable lessons about friendship, love, and redemption.

Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love, searches his family history for clues about who he is, uncovering a dramatic story woven into the fabric of his uncle’s quilts.

Gathering for their weekly knitting club at a small yarn shop on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a group of friends shares such challenges as raising children, navigating the ups and downs of their careers, and pursuing uncertain relationships.

A volume of seventeenth-century embroidery patterns that also contains faint diary entries brings together the lives of two women of different eras — Cat Tregenna, kidnapped by Muslim pirates in 1625, and Julia Lovat, a modern-day woman out to authenticate Cat’s story.

When knitting shop owner Ariadne Evans stumbles upon the body of Edith Perry, a temperamental customer, in her store, she is plunged into the investigation into the crime, especially when her close friend Diane becomes a prime suspect and Detective Joshua Hayes, baffled by the knitting aspects of the case, enlists her assistance.
Knitting Series

Three young women — Kathleen, a flighty beauty living off her famed actress sisters; Sari, who works in an autism clinic; and Lucy, a scientist who once wanted to be a veterinarian — meet once a week to knit and to discuss the challenges, failed romances, and tough choices of adulthood.

When Lydia Hoffman, a cancer survivor and owner of A Good Yarn, starts a knitting class for her patrons, she forms a special friendship and bond with three extraordinary women — Jacqueline, Carol, and Alix — and together they share laughter, heartbreak, and dreams.
Blossom Street Series

The death of her beloved grandfather forces bookstore owner Sylvia Lynn to return to her childhood home in upstate New York to confront the grandmother who had raised her and the nearby woods that had both enticed and terrified her, and encounters members of the local Fiber Guild, a group of women seeking to bind the power of the woods into their weavings.

The local church ladies society and their eligible daughters decide to make a quilt for the new circuit-riding preacher and try to outdo one another to gain the attention of the young minister, whose endearing mistakes may not cover up his deception.
Patchwork Circle Series

When local minister Sam Kinkade’s plans to welcome the area’s growing Hispanic community to the church are met with resistance, he asks Elisa Martinez for guidance, and together they make things work with the help of a special group of women.
Shenandoah Album Series

When Sierra finds a quilt made by one of her ancestors, she begins to explore the young woman’s life and rediscovers her own spirituality.

Finding a killer becomes an all-too-personal quest for Kelly Flynn when she returns to Colorado from Washington, D.C., to uncover the truth about the death of her beloved Aunt Helen, turning to the knitting regulars at the House of Lambspun for a few lessons in knitting and in capturing a murderer.
Knitting Mystery Series

Kitzi Camden, a retired stateswoman who has taken up beading as a hobby, is forced to turn sleuth when talented beader May Feather turns up dead during a beading retreat at Camp Green Clover and Kitzi embarks on a search for an elusive killer.
Kitzi Camden Series

Four unlikely women, each with their private struggles, band together to sew a quilt to benefit a local hospital, and experience a dramatic rejuvenation in the process.

While helping her father restore the town’s famous Winchester mansion, restoration expert and professional rubber stamper April Buchert must also help prove his innocence when the discovery of a skull in the abandoned guesthouse behind the mansion has all eyes on him.
Stamping Sisters Series