Frayed Edges
(2025)(The second book in the Patchwork Mysteries Cozy Mystery series)
A Story by Hattie Clover and Maisy Marple
When a priceless family painting disappears, four quilting friends stitch together the clues to a centuries-old secret.
It's mid-November in the charming New England town of Millfield, and the Patchwork Detectives are still basking in the success of solving their first case. But when Catherine Mitchell's valuable family painting vanishes from the local museum's exhibition, the four quilting friends find themselves unraveling a mystery with threads stretching back to the Revolutionary War.
Dorothy "Dot" Jenkins, a retired mathematics teacher with a keen analytical mind; Agatha "Aggie" Palmer, whose blueberry muffins extract information where interrogation fails; Frances "Frankie" Sullivan, with her accountant's eye for financial discrepancies; and Ruth Wilson, whose librarian background uncovers historical clues—together, these four friends piece together evidence that the painting contains hidden coordinates to long-buried documents.
As Thanksgiving approaches and the first major snowstorm of the season threatens, the Patchwork Detectives discover that several prominent Millfield families have motives to keep the painting's secrets hidden. With a desperate museum director, a single-minded professor, a wealthy art collector, and a shifty security guard all acting suspiciously, the ladies must determine who took the painting and why.
What they uncover could rewrite Millfield's entire revolutionary history just months before the town's tercentennial celebration. Racing against the winter weather and navigating holiday preparations, can these four friends recover both painting and historical documents before centuries of secrets are lost forever?
Genre: Cozy Mystery
It's mid-November in the charming New England town of Millfield, and the Patchwork Detectives are still basking in the success of solving their first case. But when Catherine Mitchell's valuable family painting vanishes from the local museum's exhibition, the four quilting friends find themselves unraveling a mystery with threads stretching back to the Revolutionary War.
Dorothy "Dot" Jenkins, a retired mathematics teacher with a keen analytical mind; Agatha "Aggie" Palmer, whose blueberry muffins extract information where interrogation fails; Frances "Frankie" Sullivan, with her accountant's eye for financial discrepancies; and Ruth Wilson, whose librarian background uncovers historical clues—together, these four friends piece together evidence that the painting contains hidden coordinates to long-buried documents.
As Thanksgiving approaches and the first major snowstorm of the season threatens, the Patchwork Detectives discover that several prominent Millfield families have motives to keep the painting's secrets hidden. With a desperate museum director, a single-minded professor, a wealthy art collector, and a shifty security guard all acting suspiciously, the ladies must determine who took the painting and why.
What they uncover could rewrite Millfield's entire revolutionary history just months before the town's tercentennial celebration. Racing against the winter weather and navigating holiday preparations, can these four friends recover both painting and historical documents before centuries of secrets are lost forever?
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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