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Interweaving historical fact with fiction, this novel explores the mystery and personal stories behind the creation of the remarkable Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven at the end of the fifteenth century, which today hang in the Cluny Museum in Paris.

A couple of surprise openings at the artists’ retreat familiarly known as Elm Creek Quilts brings a host of intriguing candidates.

Scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertard is in the middle of making place settings when she stumbles upon a pattern for murder.

Needlework shop owner and amateur sleuth Betsy Devonshire becomes embroiled in a dangerous and all-too personal case when her friend Godwin is arrested for the murder of his significant other, John, after a nasty quarrel.

While preparing for two upcoming weddings, California folk art authority Benni Harper suddenly finds herself involved in a decades-old, unsolved murder and dealing with a personal crisis of the heart.

Enrolling in a scrapbooking class in the hopes of redeeming himself from his history of dreadful gifts to his wife, Sam Gardner inadvertently raises his wife suspicions with his marked absences and finds himself involved in a series of unfortunate mishaps.

When knitting shop owner Ariadne Evans stumbles upon the body of a temperamental customer in her store, she is plunged into the investigation of the crime.

Four women going through difficult periods in their lives form a powerful bond of friendship when they meet at a knitting class held at A Good Yarn, a quaint yarn store in downtown Seattle.

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.

Finding a killer becomes a 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.

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.