A Catered Quilting Bee

For sisters and business partners Bernie and Libby Simmons, catering a quilting showcase is about as tame as it gets--until murder put them in a bind!

Quilts, quiet, and delicious food. That's exactly what Bernie and Libby expect as they build the menu for the Longely Sip and Sew Quilting Circle's first-ever exhibition hosted at the local library. The eclectic ladies of the group couldn't appear more harmlessly wholesome if they tried, especially mild-mannered kindergarten teacher Cecilia Larson, who hired A Little of Taste of Heaven to cater the event. So it's a complete shock when disturbing news drops about member Ellen Fisher, found hanging from a plant hook in her otherwise pristine sewing room . . .

All are very quick to deem the tragic death a suicide. All except for Cecilia. She believes something else happened to her best friend--who was busy adding the finishing stitches on her greatest work yet in hopes of displaying it at the exhibition--and looks to Bernie and Libby to expose the truth . . . and the killer. As Ellen's patchy past comes into focus along with a mysterious connection to a missing seven-hundred-year-old quilt fragment, can the sisters unravel the victim's final thread before another turns up dead?

Author: Isis Crawford
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
Published: 02/20/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.43w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9781496734976


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2023

About the Author
Isis Crawford was born in Egypt to parents who were in the diplomatic corps. When she was five, her family returned to the States, where her mother opened a restaurant in Upper Westchester County and her father became a university professor. Since then Isis has combined her parents' love of food and travel by running a catering service as well as penning numerous travel-related articles about places ranging from Omsk to Paraguay. Married, with twin boys, she presently resides in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, where she is working on the next Bernie and Libby culinary mystery. Visit her at IsisCrawford.com.