Southern Quilting Mysteries (Elizabeth Spann Craig) Books in Order

Newly retired Beatrice Coleman joins the Village Quilters just in time for their most unpopular landlord to be murdered. Her eye for detail makes her a natural sleuth in Dappled Hills.

Beatrice and the Village Quilters welcome prickly mail carrier Jo Paxton into their orbit, then her brakes are sabotaged. Now Beatrice must decide whether someone is targeting the guild itself.

A getaway beyond Dappled Hills should be a pleasant quilt trip for Beatrice Coleman, not a murder scene. Instead, a house full of secrets leaves her hunting answers far from home.

As the Village Quilters rush to finish quilts for a show, rivalries flare in Posy's shop. Then Beatrice finds local ladies' man Jason Gore dead, stabbed with missing shears.

Wedding plans and community tensions make a tricky backdrop for Beatrice's next case. She has to sort through tangled loyalties before the killer tightens the knot.

A fresh crime threatens the calm Beatrice hoped to find in retirement. As local relationships start to splinter, she works out which crack in the picture matters most.

What begins as small-town trouble turns into something far worse when murder enters the frame. Beatrice Coleman pieces together clues from guild drama, friendship, and long memories.

Beatrice barely settles into Dappled Hills before another murder leaves her racing to understand the town around her. Her eye for detail becomes her best tool.

Everyone in Dappled Hills is tense after another killing touches the quilting circle. Beatrice follows the nervous whispers and pointed clues toward a very human motive.

Beatrice Coleman is pulled into another Dappled Hills death where old resentments sit just under the surface. To solve it, she has to patch together scraps of gossip and motive.

A family business sale stirs up resentment in Dappled Hills, then the seller is murdered before the deal can close. Beatrice Coleman has to untangle family loyalties and hidden motives.

Beatrice Coleman faces another small-town murder in a case full of embellishment, gossip, and half-truths. She has to strip the story down to its plain seams to catch the killer.

The holidays do not slow down trouble in Dappled Hills. Beatrice and the Village Quilters are soon wrapped up in a murder that refuses to come neatly untied.

A new case leaves Beatrice Coleman sorting through sharp tempers, sharper suspicions, and a close-knit quilting community. In Dappled Hills, one wrong stitch can unravel everything.

Beatrice finds that even a peaceful quilting circle can carry a heavy load of secrets. When murder hits Dappled Hills again, she has to read the room as carefully as any pattern.

A sewing-themed mystery sends Beatrice Coleman back into Dappled Hills gossip and guild tensions. She has to follow a messy trail of grudges and half-hidden truths before someone else gets hurt.

Beatrice meets a stubborn new case where tempers flare and patience runs thin. She follows the rough edges of Dappled Hills life until the full pattern comes into view.

Dappled Hills looks friendly on the surface, but Beatrice knows there is always something tucked out of sight. A new murder sends her hunting through the town's hidden seams.

Complicated loyalties and long memories make Beatrice's latest case especially knotty. As the Village Quilters trade rumors, she tries to see the design underneath the confusion.

Christmas cheer reaches Dappled Hills, until a murder cuts through the festivities. Beatrice Coleman has to protect the holiday mood while untangling one more deadly secret.