Stitches in Time: Fiction for the Quilter

The author of The Wyndham Case returns with another mystery featuring Imogene Quy - school nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge - about an unfinished biography, three scholars who died mysteriously, another who is missing, and a peculiar quilt pattern.

Perry, Phyllis A.
Stigmata

When Lizzie inherits a trunk from her grandmother Grace, it contains a diary recording ancestor Bessie's passage to America on a slave ship, and a quilt into which Grace had stitched Bessie’s history and dreams.

Rivers, Francine
Scarlet Thread

When Sierra discovers her young ancestor's handcrafted quilt and reads her journal, she finds their lives are very similar. By following her ancestor's example, she learns to surrender to God's sovereignty and unconditional love.

Worth, Lenora
Wedding Quilt

The handmade quilt was stored with care--along with Rosemary's cherished dreams. The wedding was called off and Rosemary vowed she'd never marry. Then Kirk Lawrence arrived. Could he mend Rosemary's heart and rescue her lost dreams?

Brown, Lizbie
Broken Star

Forsaking her native Turkey Creek, Virginia, for a more genteel lifestyle as a quilt shop owner in England, widow Elizabeth Blair soon teams up with a local private eye to uncover some skeletons in the closets of Bath.

Peart, Jane
Pattern

The first book of The American Quilt Series by Peart in which are told the stories of three generations of women, their struggles through life, and the quilts that they create as a reminder of their growth.

Otto, Whitney
How to Make an American Quilt

As members of a women's quilting group work their art, their stories of grief, passion, youth, and age are played out in a multigenerational, multi-layered narrative.

While a woman searches for a fulfilling job in a small college town, she learns techniques for quilting and deep lessons about family, friendship, and sisterhood from an older woman settling the formalities of her deceased sister's estate.

Dallas, Sandra
Persian Pickle Club

The author traces the lives of a group of women in a rural, Depression-era Kansas town, who meet to share gossip, love, loyalty, and their talent for quilting.

Fowler, Earlene
Irish Chain

Probing the death of a San Celina Senior Citizen, museum curator Benni Harper goes against the wishes of her police chief boyfriend and uncovers the victim's fifty-year-old affiliation with a blackmailing ring.

Frommer, Sara Hoskinson
Buried in Quilts

Joan Spencer, violist and manager of the Oliver, Indiana Civic Symphony, is busy with preparations for the group's performance at the hugely popular annual quilt show. When the body of show organizer Mary Sue Ellett is found under a quilt, the competition takes on a sinister tone

Harper, Karen
Dark Road Home

Seeking refuge in an Amish friend's quilt shop after an episode with a stalker, attorney Brooke Benton is courted by Amish gentleman Daniel Brand before she is swept up in a hit-and-run case involving four teenagers

Michaels, Barbara (A.K.A. Elizabeth Peters)
Stitches in Time

When an antique bridal quilt appears under mysterious circumstances at the vintage clothing shop where Rachel Grant works, she is fascinated for she believes that through the ages, women wove protective magic into their fabrics in order to mark the important events of their lives: birth, marriage, and death. But there is something sinister in this quilt's magic power.