Peggy Ehrhart Books in Order

Blues singer Maxx Maxwell is waiting tables and chasing a break with her band when guitarist Jimmy Nashville falls from his apartment window. The death is ruled a suicide, but Maxx starts asking questions and finds the music scene full of motives.

Three short cases put blues singer sleuth Maxx Maxwell back on the trail, from a flash fiction killing to a murder charge hanging over her guitarist. The stories keep the music scene front and center while showing off Maxx's quick eye for trouble.

This collection of three music-themed mysteries moves from Harlem to the East Village, where musicians, ambition, and old grudges collide. Each story uses New York's club scene as the backdrop for deception, revenge, and murder.

Maxximum Blues is finally gaining ground in Manhattan, and Maxx hopes a new CD will push the band to the next level. Then producer Rick Schneider vanishes, blood turns up in his studio, and Maxx is pulled into another dangerous search.

After a town festival, Pamela discovers the body of an unpopular history teacher hidden beneath the Knit and Nibble table. With a stuffed aardvark as the strangest clue and suspicion falling nearby, Pamela and her fellow knitters start unraveling the case.

Widowed craft magazine editor Pamela Paterson hosts her knitting club in Arborville, New Jersey, only to find a friend dead outside with a knitting needle in her sweater. When another killing follows, Pamela must read the clues hidden in yarn and gossip.

New club member Caralee Lorimer is learning to knit for a local production of A Tale of Two Cities when backstage feuds turn deadly. After Caralee dies in a suspicious theater accident, Pamela and the Knit and Nibblers dig into Arborville's snippy drama scene.

Pamela's holiday season sours when her daughter discovers the body of wealthy craft shop owner Millicent Farthingale. A hand-knit red scarf is the main clue, and Pamela must sort through greedy relatives, business tensions, and Christmas chaos to find the killer.

When someone starts wrapping Arborville's marked trees in yarn, Pamela assumes it is a protest, not a prelude to murder. After the mayor is killed and gentle knitter Roland is arrested, she sets out to clear his name and find the real culprit.

At Arborville's Halloween parade, a woman dressed as Little Bo Peep is found strangled with loops of yarn. Pamela and Bettina chase leads through costumes, small-town grudges, and spooky festivities before the killer can strike again.

A community garden turns grim when cookbook hopeful Jenny Miller is found strangled in her own plot with a circular needle. Pamela and Bettina dig through rivalries, recipes, and springtime gossip to learn who wanted Jenny's future buried.

At Arborville's holiday craft fair, beloved art teacher and Christmas card designer Karma Karling is found dead on opening day. Pamela and her knitting friends swap festive preparations for sleuthing as they look for the person who turned a cheerful tradition lethal.

Pamela helps run a fiber arts conference at Wendelstaff College when a pompous, philandering professor collapses after coffee and cookies. Since everyone shared the refreshments, she and the Knit and Nibble crew must work out how the poison was delivered.

St. Patrick's Day in Arborville turns deadly when lively heiress Isobel Lister is found murdered just after performing Irish songs at the senior center. Pamela faces jealous suitors, family secrets, and holiday tension as she tracks the killer.

Pamela and Bettina join neighbors in welcoming the new owner of the old Voorhees House and instead find a corpse on the kitchen floor. Rumors of hauntings, strange lights, and long-buried secrets complicate the search for a very human killer.

In the title novella of this St Patrick's Day collection, Tara Meehan and fiancé Danny O'Donnell take friends to the Aran Islands for a joint hen and stag party. Boozy milkshakes on the ferry turn deadly when one reveler collapses, trapping Tara with a killer in a storm.

On Halloween night, screams from teenage trick-or-treaters lead Pamela and Bettina to a real corpse on a decorated porch. The victim's academic life, feminist circle, and neighborhood gossip leave the friends picking through masks, misdirection, and old resentments.

Spring in Arborville brings trouble when fiber artist Ingrid Barrick is found dead in her ransacked home. Pamela and Bettina follow sketches of bees and butterflies, a canceled tapestry exhibit, and tensions with neighbors to uncover what really led to Ingrid's death.

In this collection, Lucy Stone visits Provence, Hayley Powell faces a reporter’s death mid‑meal at her restaurant, and knitters Pamela and Bettina find a body after a town egg hunt. Each pastel egg hides motives as sharp as any murder weapon.

At Banburyport's Arts and Crafts Museum, quilt expert Caroline Platte heads to a wealthy donor's home to collect a prized antique quilt and finds both the heirloom missing and its owner dead. To clear an intern, she starts piecing together old secrets.