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A Whiskey Pines Novella Series

Pines & Needles
Crafting Mysteries

Crafting, community, and crime at the lakefront women's colony where every stitch tells a story.

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Your Protagonist

Meet Roxie Maxx

Roxie Maxx left a bad marriage and a Chicago penthouse and drove north with a Bichon Frise, a deed to a crumbling lakefront property, and a conviction that women deserved better than what the world had been handing them. She turned that property into Pines & Needles Crafting Colony, a sanctuary on the Lake Huron shore outside Whiskey Pines, Michigan, where women fifty and older come to work with their hands, keep their own counsel, and build something that lasts.

What she did not plan on was the murders. She has gotten rather good at solving them.

She is assisted, as always, by Kenzie, twelve pounds of white Bichon Frise with a previous life as a 1920s speakeasy waitress and an encyclopedic knowledge of human misbehavior. Kenzie communicates directly with Roxie. She is almost always right. She finds this unsurprising.

Roxie Maxx
Quiet Treachery Pre-Order Now
Book 1 Quiet Treachery Some betrayals arrive without a sound. Read More →
Friendly Fraud Pre-Order Now
Book 2 Friendly Fraud The most dangerous deceiver is the one everyone trusts. Read More →
The Stolen Stitch Pre-Order Now
Book 3 The Stolen Stitch A pattern stolen decades ago resurfaces, and so does the woman who disappeared with it. Read More →
Silent Scissors Pre-Order Now
Book 4 Silent Scissors She cut the wrong thread, and the whole story came undone. Read More →
Quilted Silence Pre-Order Now
Book 5 Quilted Silence Every square of the old quilt held a memory. One of them held a murder. Read More →
Midnight Purls Pre-Order Now
Book 6 Midnight Purls The knitting circle met every Tuesday. Until the night one of them didn't come home. Read More →
Needled Lies Pre-Order Now
Book 7 Needled Lies The truth was threaded through every lie she had been told since she arrived. Read More →
Tangled Alibi Pre-Order Now
Book 8 Tangled Alibi Her alibi was perfect. Perfectly rehearsed. Read More →