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Members of the Burl Creek Thimble Club, a quilting circle in small-town Alpine, Washington, are planning a fete to welcome back Genevieve Bayard, who left Alpine, decades ago. But Gen's homecoming is cut decidedly short when she dies at a dinner party. Emma Lord, owner and publisher of the local newspaper arrives on the scene to report the incident and sleuth her way to the truth

Three generations of Hartes. One indomitable family whose loyalty binds them together and whose enemies want to tear them apart. Meet four remarkable women: India Standish is the traditionalist in the family who falls for an artist from a working-class background. American-born Evan Hughes, the great-granddaughter of Emma, is trying to integrate into the Harte family. Evan's cousing, Tessa Longden, is battling for custody of her daughter Adele. and...

Emma Harte's great-granddaughters find themselves at a crossroads involving family values, traditions, new romance, and business in the final episode of the Harte family saga.

It's a quiet morning at the Advocate until the mail brings shocking news: a formal obituary for Alpiner Elmer Nystrom. As far as anyone knows, Elmer is alive and well. But he hasn't turned up for work, so Emma Lord and her unstoppable House & Home editor, Vida Runkel, rush to the Nystrom home, where they find Elmer's lifeless body in the henhouse, half buried under straw. Not only has he been murdered, but his obituary had been mailed before he died....

A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers

When Alpine's newspaper, "The Advocate," narrowly escapes a potential hostile takeover, Emma Lord finds herself on the top of the suspect list when the person behind the bid turns up dead

In Emma Lord's newest outing, a fight erupts at the local tavern and a patron is murdered with a pool cue. What initially seems to be an open-and-shut case disintegrates with the contradictory and confused accounts given by the murder's many witnesses. Each one has an agenda behind the story - some of them committed enough to lie. And it's up to Emma and her longtime compatriot, Sheriff Milo Dodge, to figure it out

BANK ON MURDER
For generations the venerable family-owned bank has served the old logging town in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. But suddenly Marv Peterson, bank president and family patriarch, seems unnaturally distracted; his heirs and employees are jittery. And when a banker from Seattle comes to town, allegedly on a fishing vacation, Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, decides to do a bit of fishing herself.
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"Descent into Dust is an atmospheric, gothic tale that immediately grabs readers with the startling sincerity of being trusted with a very, very dark secret....An unforgettable read."
—Kathryn Smith, USA Today bestselling author

A young widow with an uncertain inheritance; a mysterious guest with unclear motives; a child in peril; and the dark, rain-lashed moors—Descent into Dust begins the Extraordinary Adventures

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Nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, the charming little hamlet of Alpine is welcoming Thanksgiving with open arms, while Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, feels her spirits sink. With no family or friends to share the day, Emma wonders how she managed to screw up her life so badly. But on the Monday after the holiday, a call from Sheriff Dodge concerning a trio of alarming unsigned letters leaves Emma no time to...