The Harriet Truman/Loose Threads Mystery series follows the amateur sleuthing adventures of Harriet Truman, a retired schoolteacher, and the members of her quilting group, Loose Threads. Set in the small town of Foggy Point, the series features cozy mysteries that are filled with small town charm, engaging characters, and intriguing plotlines.

As the series progresses, Harriet and the Loose Threads find themselves caught up in a variety of mysterious and often dangerous situations, from tracking down stolen treasure to unraveling complex conspiracies. Along the way, they must use their wits and quilting skills to solve each puzzle, all while navigating the personal dramas and relationships that unfold in their own lives.

Throughout the series, readers get to know the quirky and endearing residents of Foggy Point, from Harriet's love interest, the local police chief, to the other members of the Loose Threads group, each with their own unique personalities and backstories. With a perfect blend of humor, heart, and suspense, the Harriet Truman/Loose Threads Mystery series is a beloved and entertaining read for fans of cozy mysteries.

1

Quilt As Desired

Harriet Truman returns to Foggy Point thinking she’s just going to see to her aunt Beth’s customers while the lady takes a European cruise. Instead, she discovers she now owns both business and house, whether she wanted to or not. Still, she’s stuck until Aunt Beth comes home, and she does enjoy being a part of creating beautiful quilts. But then Avanell Jalbert, her aunt’s best friend, is murdered on the same night someone breaks into Harriet’s studio and trashes the place. Something is coming unravelled in Foggy Point, and Harriet is caught in the tangle. The question is, can she figure out what’s going on before she ends up dead herself.

2

Quilter's Knot

Long-arm quilter Harriet Truman goes on a stitching retreat with her quilt group, the Loose Threads, at the Angel Harbor Folk Art School. While there, member Lauren Sawyer accuses the school's owner and teacher, Selestina Bainbridge, of copying her work, and asks Harriet to help her prove it. Things get complicated when Selestina is poisoned and Aiden Jalbert, a veterinarian in town to run a spay-and-neuter clinic, is nearly killed in a hit-and-run. Lauren disappears, and Aiden helps Harriet find her, leading them to discover the culprit behind the murder and quilt copying.

3

Quilt As You Go

When the dust settles after the Foggy Point Civil War re-enactment, one casualty turns out to be really dead, and his identity sends shockwaves through the community.Does a long-lost quilt that suddenly re-appears hold a clue? Harriet and the Loose Threads must unravel the mystery before the killer strikes again. And who is the mysterious young man with the military bearing who's drawn the admiration of Carla, the young woman the Threads have taken under their wing? Is he what he claims to be, or something much more sinister?

4

Quilt by Association

An African woman with a blue-eyed baby arrives in Foggy Point looking for Aiden Jalbert. Within days, she's been murdered, and so is the man who claimed to be her husband. As if that weren't enough, the supposedly African toddler Loose Thread DeAnn and her husband adopted turns out to be from Samoa, and the social worker who helmed the deal has gone missing. Who was Neelie Obote, really, and who wanted her dead? What did Rodney Miller learn that earned him the same fate? And what part does Joseph Marsden play? Harriet and the Loose Threads are determined to find out, but as they dig deeper into the mystery it begins to appear the killer may not be finished yet.

5

The Quilt Before the Storm

A storm is bearing down on Foggy Point, Washington, promising strong winds, flooding and power outages. Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads quilt group are sewing flannel rag quilts and making plastic tarps from grocery bags for the denizens of a local homeless camp. Then one of the homeless men is strangled, and a few days later a second man is also murdered. Were they victims of a serial killer, or of someone closer to home? With the detectives of the Foggy Point Police department trapped on the wrong side of a rock slide that isolates the community, and dead bodies at the homeless camp, it’s up to Harriet and the Threads to figure out who is killing people and why—before they become the next victims.

6

Make Quilts Not War

It’s wintertime in Foggy Point, Washington, and tourists are as scarce as gold-plated thimbles at a thrift store. The denizens of the town decide that a colorful 1960s-themed festival is just the event to bring people out and get them moving and, hopefully, spending their money in the community. Clad in bellbottom jeans, granny dresses and afro wigs, the Loose Threads quilt group is excited to participate in the associated quilt display. All, that is, except Jenny Logan, the only member who has an authentic quilt from that era. Reluctantly, she agrees to display and talk about her quilt. A costumed participant is shot in front of Jenny’s quilt. Coincidence? Or is the quilt’s past endangering its owner’s future?

7

A Quilt in Time

Pet quilts are the project of the day for Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads. Local veterinarian Aiden Jalbert decides to set up an animal kennel for the local battered women’s shelter and asks the quilters to sew bedding for it. Harriet is soon drawn into the world of domestic violence when Loose Thread Sarah Ness calls from the emergency room, where she’s landed as a result of a vicious beating by her fiancé Seth Pratt. Sarah initially refuses to consider going to the shelter but is forced to change her mind when she wakes to find Seth dead beside her in bed. Is Harriet’s friend a killer, or did someone else want Seth dead? Will Harriet put herself in the killer’s sights if she tries to figure it out?

8

Crazy as a Quilt

A quilting conference brings Harriet Truman face-to-face with a past she had been happy to forget. Then she learns the quilter staying at Aiden Jalbert's house is an old flame whose real agenda might not involve needle and thread. Then the old flame is found dead in Aiden's temporary living quarters, and all the evidence points to him. Unless Harriet and the Threads can track down the real killer, Harriet's blooming romance may wither on the stem.

9

Disappearing Nine Patch

What happened to Amber? Loose Thread DeAnn Gault is happy her younger half-sister Molly has come home to visit Foggy Point, even after she asks Harriet Truman and the quilting group if they will make quilts as a reward for two $10,000 donors to the Carey Bates Missing and Exploited Children Center. The charity is near and dear to Molly’s heart, as she herself was a kidnap victim when she was five. But Molly has another agenda─she wants Harriet to figure out what happened to her friend Amber, who was kidnapped with her but never found. After Harriet’s Aunt Beth is injured in a car accident that may have been sabotage, the group wonders: Will someone go to any lengths to keep the secret of Amber’s disappearance? Or has Molly’s current work pursuing human traffickers made them a target?

10

Double Wedding Death

What could possibly go wrong at an appliqué conference? If you’re Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads, just about anything. First, a drunken groom accosts Harriet in the hotel bar, and his outraged bride-to-be decides Harriet is making moves on her man. The next day, Jennifer storms into a “getting to know you” conference party and slugs her hard enough to crack an eye socket. No wonder, then, that Harriet is suspect number-one when Bridezilla turns up dead, and thing go downhill fast. It’s up to the Loose Threads—again—to figure out who did what to whom before and save not just Harriet but her best friend Lauren as well.

11

Quilts Make A Family

It seemed like a simple project—make quilts for foster kids getting close to aging out of the system and teach them some useful skills as well. Granted, the foster parents aren’t the most pleasant people, but Luke and Sincere and the others have already had tough lives and say they can handle it. Things get complicated, though, when a reality-TV show gets permission to film the kids and track down their relatives. Foster parent Paul Holloway is murdered, and the “relatives” the TV crew introduces are more than odd. Then, when the producer’s assistant is killed, too, it’s clear there’s some deadly going on—and the kids are the targets.

12

The 12 Quilts of Christmas

In the air there's a feeling of…murder? Harriet Truman is looking forward to creating happy Christmas memories with her husband James and their new foster son Luke. She and the rest of the Loose Threads are also delighted to see their special quilts displayed throughout the downtown in festive store windows. But a shocking murder disrupts the joy of the season, and when another body turns up, and then Harriet and Luke only just manage to escape a black-clad attacker, it’s clear all isn’t holly-jolly in Foggy Point. And then there’s Harriet’s new horse…

13

A Quilt of a Different Color

What do a quilter, a homeless veteran and the stage mother of a riding student have in common? They all want a disabled lecherous riding teacher dead. The Miller Hill Equestrian Center is the last place Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads want to spend the cold months of winter but when the Center’s manager asks them to sew decorative quilted saddle blankets for an upcoming show, they can’t refuse. They soon find themselves in the middle of the mix and once more trying to unstitch a murder