Having traded in her career as a successful investigative journalist for the life of a stay-at-home mom in picturesque Cumberland Creek, Virginia, Annie canât help but feel that somethingâs missing. But she finds solace in a local âcrop circleâ of scrapbookers united by chore-shy husbands, demanding children, and occasional fantasies of their former single lives. And when the quiet idyll of their small town is shattered by a young motherâs suicide, they band together to find out what went wrong . . .
Annie resurrects her reporting skills and discovers that Maggie Rae was a closet scrapbooker who left behind more than a few secretsâand perhaps a few enemies. As they sift through Maggie Raeâs mysteriously discarded scrapbooks, Annie and her âcropâ sisters begin to suspect that her suicide may have been murder. It seems that something sinister is lurking beneath the townâs beguilingly calm façadeâlike a killer with unfinished business . . .
âA scrapbook of zany small town life with characters you'll want to visit again and again in each new novel.â âEmilie Richards, author of Sunset BridgeÂ
âImagine the housewives of Wisteria Lane sipping tea, scrapbooking, and solving murders, and you have this gem of a debut.â âLois Winston, author of Assault with a Deadly Glue GunÂ
âIntriguing characters, eerie happenings . . . Kept me guessing âtil the end.â âClare OâDonohue
Includes tips and a glossary of terms for the modern scrapbooker!Mollie Cox Bryan writes cozy mysteries with edge and romances with slow, sweet burn. The first book in her Cora Crafts Mystery series, Death Among the Doilies, was a "Fresh Fiction Not to Missâ selection and was a finalist for the Daphne du Maurier Award. The second book, No Charm Intended, was named a âSummer 2017 Top 10 Beach Readâ by Woman's World. She also wrote the Agatha-award nominated Cumberland Creek Mysteries. She makes her home at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, where she works as a researcher and fact checker and writes in the early morning hours. Visit her and sign up for her newsletter at molliecoxbryan.com.