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An autumn quilting retreat. A beautiful English country house. And a guest who won’t be going home.

October has arrived in Ashcombe, bringing crisp mornings, falling leaves, and the perfect excuse for Nora to host The Patchwork House’s first autumn quilting retreat.

Set at beautiful Briarwood House in the English countryside, the weekend...

A parcel addressed to a woman who has been dead for twelve years is strange enough. What’s inside is worse.

When the mysterious package arrives on Alderwick High Street, postmaster Stan Preece knows immediately that something is wrong. Evelyn Mercer has been dead for more than a decade, yet someone has sent her a child’s mitten, an old...

When antiques dealer Bernard Crowther fails to open his shop on the busiest morning of the year, the other traders on Alderwick High Street know immediately that something is wrong.

Bernard is found dead behind the locked doors of Crowther’s Antiques, and the police believe he interrupted a burglary. But grocer Marnie Bell and her fellow...

When Nora Whitfield agrees to a long-overdue dinner date with Tom Calloway, she hopes for one quiet evening in Ashcombe. Instead, the night ends in horror when a woman at a nearby table suddenly collapses and dies.

What appears at first to be a shocking tragedy soon begins to look far more complicated. As whispers spread through the village, Nora...

When the Ashcombe Parish Fair arrives under bright August skies, Nora Whitfield is expecting committee chaos, village politics, and far too many last-minute responsibilities. What she isn’t expecting is a patchwork coverlet in the charity auction that seems far older — and far more important — than anyone realizes.

As the fair gets underway, a...

In the quiet village of Ashcombe, November is a season for keeping your head down and getting on with things.

For Nora Whitfield, owner of The Patchwork House, that usually means fabric orders, probate assessments, and the gentle routines of village life. But when she is asked to value a box of household textiles from the estate of the late Agnes...

Murder in Patchwork — The Patchwork House Mysteries, Book 1

When Nora Whitfield returns to the English village of Ashcombe after nearly twenty years away, she expects to find fabric, familiar faces, and the particular low-level social warfare of a place that never quite forgets anything. What she doesn’t expect is a mystery stitched into a...