Quilty as Charged: a Small-town Quilting Cozy Mystery With a Feisty Senior Sleuth and Her Crafty Cat

Quilty as Charged – A Small-Town Quilting Cozy Mystery with a Feisty Senior Sleuth and Her Crafty CatWhen Mabel Quinn’s prizewinning quilt becomes a murder weapon’s wrapping, she’ll have to stitch together the clues before she’s accused of the crime.Seventy-two-year-old quilter Mabel Quinn has sewn through three divorces, two funerals, and one church potluck scandal—but she’s never stitched a body into a quilt. Until she arrives early at her quilting circle and finds Gus Harper dead, wrapped in her Autumn Starburst masterpiece. Three months of painstaking work, now a crime scene.The trouble is, everyone in town witnessed Mabel’s heated argument with Gus just days before his death. She called him a fraud. She humiliated him in front of customers. And now he’s dead in her quilt, in her locked quilting room, and she has no alibi except her mischievous cat, Thimble.Sheriff Luke Lane—the one man in town who doesn’t underestimate her—needs answers. But as Mabel starts pulling threads, she unravels secrets darker than she imagined: business rivalries, family betrayals, and a quilting circle that might be hiding more than fabric scraps.With the Harvest Quilt Show days away and suspicion tightening like a noose, can Mabel prove her innocence? Or will the killer strike again before she can piece together the truth?