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What does a meteorite, a murderer, and a wagonload of gold have in common? That was the puzzle Maddy Madison and her Quilters Club pals were trying to figure out. Caruthers Corners, pop. 3,212, wasn't the kind of place where psychopaths ran loose, except maybe in that outlying community that locals called Cuckoo Crossing. Maddy had lived in Indiana all her life. And she couldn't name one person hereabout that she thought capable of murder. But someone was trying to kill Maddy's husband.

“Here is a Quilters Club mystery for me – a cozy puzzler that introduces the Young Quiltmakers, an amateur detective coterie comprised of Maddy Madison’s grandchildren and their almost-grown-up friends. I’m excited! —Marcy Birdweather Marcy’s Musings Readers familiar with the Quilters Club Mysteries will enjoy this continuation of the characters, particularly Maddy Madison’s grandchildren and their friends – Aggie, N’yen, Sissy, and Tommy. Forming a new detective group (The Young Quiltmakers Club), the foursome set out to determine why ditzy old Birdie Longstreet shot the ...

Members of a small-town needlecrafts society solve a centuries-old mystery in this first book in the new Quilters Club Mystery Series. You'll come to love the small Midwestern town of Caruthers Corners with its famous Watermelon Festival, placid town square, friendly folks, and sneaky politicians.

Those intrepid gals of the Caruthers Corners Quilters Club - Maddy, Cookie, Bootsie, and Lizzie - are back again, solving a century-old mystery with a little help from junior detectives Aggie and N'yen. This time around there's a missing patchwork quilt, said to have been stitched by a real-life witch. And it contains a mysterious message that just might lead to a Viking treasure hidden right there in the watermelon capital of the Midwest!

Those Quilters Club ladies - Maddy, Cookie, Bootsie, and Lizzie - don't believe in ghosts, but they have a case to solve when the ghost of Beasley Mansion scares the high school principal to death, a mysterious Phantom plants a firebomb at the Halloween Festival, and a historic pictorial quilt depicting the founding of Caruthers Corners gives an alternative history that threatens to Maddy's relationship with her husband. But can count on her granddaughter Aggie to set things right.

Amateur sleuth Maddy Madison and her Quilters Club cronies return with another cozy mystery set in Caruthers Corners, Indiana - this time the murder of a Straw Hatter in the middle of the town's annual Christmas Parade. Maybe "return" is not the right word, in that this book is a prequel, taking place before the others in this best-selling series.

Lost Boys, a hidden treasure, and a traveling circus provide another puzzler for the Quilters Club - Maddy, Liz, Cookie, and Bootsie - to solve in this third outing. And it all centers around a patchwork quilt. You'll be guessing who's who till the very last word.

Yes, this anthology contains the first four books on the bestselling Quilters Club Mystery Series -- The Underhanded Stitch, Patchwork Puzzler, Coming Unraveled, and Hemmed In. Here you’ll meet Maddy, Cookie, Bootsie, Lizzie, and precocious Aggie, solving historical mysteries in their cozy little town of Caruthers Corners, Indiana. This special bundle is a huge savings of nearly $40 off the paperback editions and 37% off the ebooks (making them only $2.50 each).

Archeologists were thrilled when the Badger Patrol stumbles across a previously undiscovered Indian Mound near Caruthers Corners. Just one problem: The dead body of the local sheriff was sprawled atop it. Leave it to the Quilters Club - Maddy, Lizzie, Bootsie, and Cookie, along with Maddy’s precocious granddaughter Aggie - to solve the murder mystery. At the same time trying to figure out who kidnapped Maddy’s adopted grandson N’yen. And the key to the puzzle is a Charm quilt with no two pieces alike…or aren’t there?

Maddy Madison and her Quilters Club pals - Bootsie, the police chief's wife; Cookie, the town historian, married to a local farmer; and Lizzie, the ostentatious wife of a retired banker - along with Maddy's precocious granddaughter Aggie and brainiac grandson N'yen - are back again. But who would expect them to tangle with Russian spies and long-dead Amish murderers in this new adventure?

Maddy Madison and her Quilters Club pals solve a murder and locate a buried treasure with the help of her precious granddaughter Aggie and brainiac grandson N’yen - and an antique map quilt that people are willing to kill to get.

Those feisty ladies of Caruthers Corners are back again. This one about the Hoople Quadruplets, a madman who wants to poison the town, and a previously unknown mate to the Reconciliation Quilt, the most valuable quilt in the world. And there's a dead body or two. Can the Quilters Club, with the help of Maddy's grandchildren Aggie and N'yen, solve the mystery? You bet, with a number of surprising twists and turns. The little Indiana town's founding fathers would likely be rolling over in their graves!

A rare Amish patchwork quilt is stolen. Can the Quilter's Club retrieve this missing heirloom? Maddy, Cookie, and Bootsie are on the case - which takes them along the Underground Railroad and down the Wabash in search of clues.

How could it be? Young Aggie discovers a brontosaurus bone at Gruesome Gorge...but no dinosaur fossil has ever been discovered in Indiana before. This mystery leads the Quilters Club - those lovable amateur sleuths Maddy, Bootsie, Cookie, and Lizzie - to uncover a massive theft of museum-quality fossils, a missing octogenarian known as Commander McBragg, and a TV evangelist involved in illegal adoptions and child abuse.

This new anthology contains the next three books of the bestselling Quilters Club Mystery Series – A Stitch in Time, Cross Stitch, and Fat Quarters. Here you’ll again meet Maddy, Cookie, Bootsie, Lizzie, precocious Aggie, and brainiac N’yen, solving historical mysteries in their cozy little town of Caruthers Corners, Indiana. This special bundle is a huge savings of $25 off the paperback editions and 33% off the ebooks (making them only $2.66 each).

A stolen quilt, a devastating tornado, and the murder of Aggie’s favorite teacher – those event put the Quilters Club in the middle of a new case. The sewing bee – comprised of Maddy, Lizzie, Cookie, and Bootsie – face the destruction of their beloved Indiana town while trying to solve the murder of an inept filmmaker turned teacher. At the same time, the irreplaceable “Pink Dogwoods in Appliqué,” a 1927 quilt by Marie D. Webster, has gone missing. “Another triumph for Marjory Sorrell Rockwell, an epic puzzler that proves her mastery of cozy mysteries,” says noted editor ...

“Wow! This is the 19th book in the Quilters Club series. And I’ve loved every single one of them. I’m pleased to tell you this one is among my favorites, a mixture of Shakespeare, and old cases, and kids home from college (can you believe Aggie and N’yen are already in college?) …” —Marcy Birdweather, Marcy’s Musings “So, fair reader, if thou seeketh an escapade woven with the fabric of mystery, wherein the charm of quilting doth intertwine with the riddles of the unknown, then verily, this be the book to enrapture thy senses and enthrall thy soul.” —W. Shakespeare A ...

“Hard to believe this is the 17th Quilter's Club cozy mystery by Marjory Sorrell Rockwell. Following the adventures of the denizens of Caruthers Corners, Indiana, as these amateur sleuths solve puzzlers about quilts and crooks and crazies is as addictive as a slice of watermelon upside down cake.” -Hollis George, noted editor and anthologist This time around the Quilters Club – Maddy Madison, along with her friends Lizzie, Cookie, and Bootsie – are on the trail of a fragment of the world’s oldest quilt, the Tristan and Isolde Quilt. They are following a tip by the ghost of a ...

Maddy Madison and her four best-est friends – those amateur sleuths known as the Quilters Club – get involved when the director of the local science museum takes a swan dive off the roof on New Year’s Eve. But it’s Maddy’s precocious granddaughter Aggie and her BFF Sissy who lead the charge in solving two burglaries, a murder, and the identity of the Gollywompus, a dread creature who stalks through the backyards of Caruthers Corners, Indiana, in the dark of night.

“I love cozy mysteries – that’s why I write them myself. My role model is that Queen of the Cozies, Marjory Sorrell Rockwell. Her latest entry (No. 18) – A Backstitch Murder – kept me reading, devouring the entire book in one sitting.” —Elizabeth Jane Jones, author of the Phantom Cooks Mysteries Maddy Madison and her Quilter’s Club friends (Cookie, Lizzie, and Bootsie) get drawn into a suspected murder of a spelunker at Indiana’s famous Marengo Cave – one where Maddy’s pixelated daughter Tilly becomes a suspect. That’s enough to call Maddy’s grandchildren Aggie and...