Needlecraft Mysteries Books in Order

Betsy Devonshire arrives in Excelsior hoping for a fresh start, then finds her sister murdered in the Crewel World shop. Taking over the store means untangling a whole town's secrets before the killer slips away.

When the historic Hopkins ferry is raised from the lake, a woman's skeleton comes up with it, along with a scrap of lace-like fabric. Betsy and the Crewel World regulars start piecing together a cold case that would rather stay buried.

A damaged tapestry found in a church storeroom looks like good publicity for Betsy's shop, until its restoration stirs up dangerous old secrets. As the stitchers work, Betsy realizes someone would kill to keep the past covered.

Bad nightmares send Betsy and her friend Jill to a remote northern stitch-in for a change of scene. Instead Betsy sees a dead woman nobody else saw, and when the body vanishes, the whole trip turns eerie.

Betsy sponsors a friend in an antique car race and expects a fun local event, not a fiery death. When one driver is killed, she and her crafty circle have to decide whether it was an accident or murder.

An artisan is murdered at the Excelsior art fair, leaving exhibitors, rivals, and onlookers on edge. Betsy steps in to find out who had designs on the dead designer, and why the fair turned deadly.

After Betsy hires roofer Foster Johns, she learns the whole town blames him for an old unsolved double murder. She believes him, but reopening a five-year-old scandal means tugging at threads many people want left alone.

Betsy heads to a Nashville needlework convention during the holiday rush, where a shop owner falls to her death from nine stories up. It looks like an accident at first, but too many people had reason to want her gone.

After a fight with John, Godwin winds up staying with Betsy, then the two find John dead and Godwin under arrest. To clear her friend, Betsy has to sort through lies, money, and John's shady dealings.

Jan Henderson becomes the obvious suspect when her wealthy aunt is killed with the kind of knitting needle Jan uses herself. An embroidered map hints at treasure, or at a secret worth killing to protect.

A charity check vanishes after a guild convention, and the man who accepted it disappears too. With Betsy laid up by a broken leg, the Monday Bunch has to do the legwork on a case full of missing money and shaky loyalties.

Doris comes home from Thailand with unusual textiles and a favor she agreed to do for someone she met abroad. When the souvenirs are stolen and violence follows, Betsy finds a far messier mystery hidden inside the embroidery.

On Halloween, a hard-drinking local blames Wiccan bar owner Leona Cunningham for a string of bad luck around town. When he winds up dead without a mark on him, Betsy has to look past gossip, superstition, and fear.

Helping friends fix up a summer cabin, Betsy discovers a human skeleton hidden in the walls. The bones may belong to a long-dead WWII prisoner, and solving the case means digging into history that never stayed buried.

An elderly homeless woman is found dead wearing a blouse embroidered with her own will, naming one of Betsy's friends as heir. When a second homeless woman dies, Betsy starts asking who is being targeted, and why.

Hailey Brent's hand-dyed fibers are some of Betsy's favorite stock, so her murder hits close to home. Digging into Hailey's workshop reveals theft, dangerous shortcuts, and plenty of enemies in a very colorful business.

A teaching gig at the Watered Silk senior complex seems like easy extra income until a young woman turns up drowned in the therapy pool. Betsy faces a tangle of lovers, grudges, and false leads before the wrong man takes the blame.

After a tree crushes Tom Riordan's house, Betsy and the Monday Bunch help clear the hoard he left behind. Then Tom is murdered in his hospital bed, and the clues are buried in a lifetime of clutter.

At a fundraiser auction, local knitters pile up handmade toys while tempers simmer around businesswoman Maddy Hanover. When Maddy is poisoned mid-event, Betsy has to sort through rivalries and resentments to find the real killer.