Author Elizabeth Craig takes her readers deep into the
heart of the South with her debut novel QUILT OR INNOCENCE,
the first book in her latest cozy mystery series, Southern
Quilting Mysteries.
When she retired from her job as museum curator Beatrice
Coleman had plans for a quieter life. She moves from big-
city Atlanta to the quiet little town of Dappled Hills,
North Carolina. She hopes her days will be filled with
plenty of time spent lying in her hammock, reading a book
and sipping from a mint julep, plus she'll be living closer
to her daughter, Piper. It sounds lovely.
But on her first day in town Beatrice discovers that
Dappled Hills is anything but quiet. As she is still
unpacking boxes, her solitude is interrupted by a visit
from her lively next-door neighbor Meadow Downey who drags
her to the monthly meeting of the Village Quilters guild
and immediately drawn into the fold and put to work. The
problem is, Beatrice has no idea how to do quilting and no
great desire to learn! But she is strangely drawn to the
quirky and lively ladies of the Guild and soon finds she is
intrigued by the friendship and fellowship she finds there.
But when Judith, a prominent but not particularly well-
liked member of the quilting guild turns up dead, Beatrice
begins to wonder just what kind of town she has moved to!
There's no shortage of suspects, including Meadow and every
other member of the quilting guild. In an effort to help
out her new friends, Beatrice uses her skills in research
to do some undercover work to pin down who would be offing
a quilting aficionado.
Elizabeth Craig does a wonderful job creating a world of
Southern charm in QUILT OR INNOCENCE, a tale that is filled
with quilting coziness and murderous intrigue. Craig's
characters are a little off-beat and full of personalities,
like any good Southerners should be, and it's a true
delight in discovering their individual quirks. The small
town setting is perfect for the closeness of the friends,
and the addition of quilting and cooking makes this a
series that is sure to become an immediate fan favorite. I,
for one, look forward to many more exciting stories to come
from Elizabeth Craig and her quilting ladies of North
Carolina.
Retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman knows
everything there is to know about quilts, except how to make
them. But with her recent move to Dapple Hills, North
Carolina, she’s learning all sorts of new things—including
how to solve a murder…
As the newest member of
the Village Quilters Guild, Beatrice has a lot of gossip to
catch up on—especially with the Patchwork Cottage quilt shop
about to close. It seems that Judith, the landlord everyone
loves to hate, wants to raise the rent, despite being a
quilter herself…
But when Judith is found dead, the
harmless gossip becomes an intricate patchwork of
mischievous motives. And it’s up to Beatrice’s expert eye to
decipher the pattern and catch the killer, before her life
gets sewn up for good.
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