SCRAPPED is a novel in Cumberland Creek and revolves around a double murder mystery. The main character Anne is a writer for a newspaper. She is married to Mike and they have two sons. They moved to Cumberland Creek as they wanted to get away from the big city.
Several women meet on Saturday night to scrapbook. They are Beatrice who along with her daughter Vera, who is divorced from Bill, Sheila, Paige, DeeAnn and the latest member Cookie. While they are scrapbooking, they also gossip about what is going on in not only their community but also in Jenkins Hollow.
The Mennonites live in Jenkins Hollow and are a very strange but religious group. The two murder victims are from this area. No one in this community is talking. One of the victims had a baby with her at the time of the murder and no one is coming forward to claim the baby.
Mean while, Anne and the girls are all trying to figure out why someone would murder these two young women. While investigating the murders, they find out that these women were shunned from the Mennonites. Why is the big question?
The newest member Cookie claims to be a witch, which just makes the other members laugh and don't believe her. Later they will find out that she is a very sick person, having many personalities and has been in and out of many hospitals and is being investigated by the FBI.
The group comes into harms way many different times and, Anne gets shot while they are investigating in Jenkins Hollow. Cookie is arrested for the murder of the two girls. This is when the group finds out things that they didn't know about her and they come to realize that maybe she is a witch. She lied to them about scrapbooking when they find her book of shadows which looks like it was done by a professional.
In the mean time Beatrice is hiding her own secret from the group. She took a trip to Paris and met and fell in love with a man 20 years younger than her. Beatrice was having visions of her late husband and once she meets this man, the visions stop. She is the only one that Cookie will see while she is in jail. She asks Beatrice to get her Book of Shadows and than has Beatrice delivered it to the mountain.
As this story continues, we find out more lies that Cookie told the group and the group is trying to remember how Cookie got into their group.
As the story comes to an end, everything comes together, we find out who the murderer is along with who the father of the baby is. We also find out who Cookie really is and why the FBI was investigating her.
I did enjoy SCRAPPED. Since it is a series, I am going to have to find the first book Scrapbook of Secrets and wait for the next one to come out.
The ladies of the Cumberland Creek Scrapbook Crop are
welcoming an
eccentric newbie into their fold. A self-proclaimed witch,
Cookie Crandall
can whip up a sumptuous vegan meal and rhapsodize about
runes and
moon phases with equal aplomb. She becomes fast friends with
her fellow
scrapbookers, including freelance reporter Annie, with whom
she shares
shallow roots in a community of established family trees. So
when Cookie
becomes the prime suspect in a series of bizarre murders,
the croppers get
scrappy and set out to clear her name.
Annie starts digging and discovers that the victims each had
strange runic
patterns carved on their bodies - a piece of evidence that
points the police
in Cookie's direction. Even her friends begin to doubt her
innocence when
they find an ornate, spiritual scrapbook that an alleged
beginner like Cookie
could never have crafted. As Annie and the croppers search
for answers,
they'll uncover a shockingly wicked side of their once quiet
town - and a
killer on the prowl for another victim.
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