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 canโt help but feel that somethingโs missing. But she finds solace in a local โcrop circleโ 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 motherโs suicide, they band together to find out what went wrongย .ย .ย .
Annie resurrects her reporting skills and discovers that Maggie Rae was a closet scrapbooker who left behind more than a few secretsโand perhaps a few enemies. As they sift through Maggie Raeโs mysteriously discarded scrapbooks, Annie and her โcropโ sisters begin to suspect that her suicide may have been murder. It seems that something sinister is lurking beneath the townโs beguilingly calm faรงadeโlike a killer with unfinished businessย .ย .ย .
โA scrapbook of zany small town life with characters you'll want to visit again and again in each new novel.โ โEmilie Richards, author of Sunset Bridgeย
โImagine the housewives of Wisteria Lane sipping tea, scrapbooking, and solving murders, and you have this gem of a debut.โ โLois Winston, author of Assault with a Deadly Glue Gunย
โIntriguing characters, eerie happeningsย .ย .ย . Kept me guessing โtil the end.โ โClare OโDonohue
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 Missโ selection and was a finalist for the Daphne du Maurier Award. The second book, No Charm Intended, was named a โSummer 2017 Top 10 Beach Readโ 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.