The quilt squares were made by Tad's grandmother Genie who died before Tad was born. Emily recently married Tad Collins, son of the owners of the local Genie Maple Syrup Company. Her former boarder Emily gives Sarah a bag of quilted squares, wrinkled and old. This mystery series, which involves some genealogy and heirloom quilts, was written by different authors but the stories flow smoothly, each one complete but best if read in order. Then Emily disappears and Sarah is reluctant to believe the allegations toward her. The land now has a very successful well-established maple syrup factory on it. The quilt also leads to a decades old question involving a land ownership scandal. When Sarah finally pieces it together she discovers a message on the back. In this story newlywed Emily Collins asks for Sarah's help with quilted squares that have never been sewn together. The protagonist is a grandmother who researches and repairs old quilts and on the way discovers the story behind the quilt. The series is a religious one but they aren't boring or preachy in the least. Each story involves at least one old quilt and the story and mystery it brings. Although most of the books do contain a thief or a swindler of some sort, for the most part the mystery involves people and relationships. This is the coziest of cozy mystery series. It was so much like the way God drew together the strands of many lives, even using the hard pieces, like illness and secrets, to make a wonderful story. "Now each of the scraps, too small and insignificant to be shapes on their own, came together in a dazzling picture. But from God's perspective, everything had been part of a beautiful pattern all along." Some times it seemed as if all the pieces would never come together in a way that made sense.
Up close, it was easy to get lost in the details of the tiny pieces, and miss the larger shapes of the figures they created. This series was put out by Guideposts, and it written by a variety of well known Christian authors.įAVORITE QUOTES: "She wondered if looking down at the quilt was something like God looking down at our lives. I did pretty much figure out "who done it" before the end, but this was still a very enjoyable read. For those who are quilters, the two more seldom used techniques involved in this story, quilt as you go and mosaic, will be interesting. No murders but rather hidden secrets waiting to be discovered. REVIEW: Quick, easy to read mystery in the style of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Is her previous boarder, Emily, involved in fraud and what mystery is the long time, small town Collins family hiding? SUMMARY: Once again Sarah Hart is busy restoring a quilt that involves a mystery - newspaper articles hidden in the lining and a mystery message stitched on the back.
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