Lea Wait

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2002
  • Latest Book:
    November 2019
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Full Series List in Order

An Antique Print Mystery

1 - Shadows at the Fair (Jul-2002)
2 - Shadows on the Coast of Maine (Aug-2003)
3 - Shadows on the Ivy (Aug-2004)
4 - Shadows at the Spring Show (Aug-2005)
5 - Shadows of a Down East Summer (Apr-2011)
6 - Shadows on a Cape Cod Wedding (Apr-2013)
7 - Shadows on a Maine Christmas (Sep-2014)
8 - Shadows on a Morning in Maine (Sep-2016)

A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery

1 - Twisted Threads (Jan-2015)
2 - Threads of Evidence (Aug-2015)
3 - Thread and Gone (Jan-2016)
4 - Dangling by a Thread (Oct-2016)
5 - Tightening the Threads (Apr-2017)
6 - Thread the Halls (Nov-2017)
7 - Thread Herrings (Oct-2018)
8 - Thread on Arrival (Apr-2019)
9 - Thread and Buried (Nov-2019)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Shadows at the Fair

    An Antique Print Mystery - 1

    In the world of antiques dealing, there are minor calamities...like accidentally selling a rare engraving for $170 instead of $1,700. And then there are worse tragedies--such as the chain of suspicious deaths among dealers in the weeks prior to the R...

  • Seaward Born

    A young enslaved boy who dreams of sailing must choose whether to risk everything to fight for freedom in this historical middle grade novel.Sometimes a man has to risk everything to do what’s right. Doing it is what makes him a man.Thirteen-year-o...

  • Stopping to Home

    What do you do when you don't have a home or a family to call your own anymore?
    Eleven-year-old Abigail is not entirely sure how she'll do it, but after losing her mother to smallpox and her father to the sea, she knows that it is up to her to b...

  • Shadows on the Coast of Maine

    An Antique Print Mystery - 2

    Maine. Antiques. August. That's all Maggie Summer requires for a guaranteed fun getaway. But there is an unexplained urgency behind the invitation from her former college roommate, Amy Douglas. The eighteenth-century house Amy and her husband Drew ar...

  • Shadows on the Ivy

    An Antique Print Mystery - 3

    Maggie Summer has three loves: her antique print business, Shadows; her career as a community college professor in Somerset County, New Jersey; and the new man in her life, Will Brewer. Her biological clock is pushing her to decide whether she's read...

  • Shadows at the Spring Show

    An Antique Print Mystery - 4

    She's an antique print dealer, a college professor, and now...a parent? Maggie Summer is considering adopting a child from the New Jersey agency Our World, Our Children, and she has happily agreed to stage a benefit antiques show on their behalf. Wit...

  • Wintering Well

    "What happened this afternoon is too terrible to write...Please, God, let Will live. And please, God, forgive me."Cassie's journal opens her dramatic story and that of her older brother Will, as they are both forced to reexamine their lives after a f...

  • Finest Kind

    WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE TWELVE YEARS OLD AND YOUR WORLD IS FALLING APART?It's 1838. Jake's father has lost his job and his savings. Hearing of work in Maine, the family leaves their large home in Boston and heads north, taking with them a few fur...

  • Shadows of a Down East Summer

    An Antique Print Mystery - 5

    In the summer of 1890, two young women posed for artist Winslow Homer on the coast of Maine. What happened that summer, the secrets the women kept, and the lies they told, changed their families forever. Now, more than a hundred years later, one of ...



  • Shadows on a Cape Cod Wedding

    An Antique Print Mystery - 6

    October on Cape Cod is always beautiful, and antique print dealer Maggie Summer is happy to visit there to help with her best friend's wedding preparations. Maggie doesn't anticipate the murder of a neighbor, nor being called into service as a counse...

  • Uncertain Glory

    Joe Wood has dreams. Big dreams. He wants to be a newspaperman, and though he’s only fourteen, he’s already borrowed money to start his own press. But it’s April, 1861, and a young nation is teetering on the brink of a civil war. As effects of ...

  • Shadows on a Maine Christmas

    An Antique Print Mystery - 7

    Antique print dealer Maggie Summer has come to Maine for a storybook Christmas with her beloved Will Brewer and his Great-Aunt Nettie, who has gathered together her longtime friends for holiday celebrations. Maggie and Will love each other, although ...

  • Twisted Threads

    A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery - 1

    Thread on arrival... Returning to the quaint coastal town of Harbor Haven, Maine -- a place she once called home -- Angie Curtis finds her memories aren’t all quite pleasant ones… After leaving a decade ago, Angie has been called back to Ha...

  • Threads of Evidence

    A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery - 2

    Murder unraveled... It's hard to imagine anything bad ever happening in picturesque Haven Harbor, Maine--until a famous face rolls into town and unthreads some very dark secrets. . . Angie Curtis and the Mainely Needlepointers are all too f...

  • Thread and Gone

    A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery - 3

    Embroidered in murder... When a priceless antique is stolen, murder unravels the peaceful seaside town of Haven Harbor, Maine. . . Angie Curtis and her fellow Mainely Needlepointers know how to enjoy their holidays. But nothing grabs their atte...

  • Shadows on a Mornng in Maine

    Antique print dealer Maggie Summer's making big changes in her life. She's taken a sabbatical from her college teaching job and moved to the coast of Maine to run an antique mall with Will Brewer, her significant other, and is finally hoping to ad...

  • Shadows on a Morning in Maine

    An Antique Print Mystery - 8

    Maggie Summer is making big changes in her life. The antique print dealer has taken a sabbatical and moved to Maine to run an antiques mall with Will Brewer, her significant other. And she will finally adopt the daughter she’s been longing for. How...

  • Dangling by a Thread

    A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery - 4

    The Mainely Needlepointers are about to learn that no man is an island -- especially when greedy developers want his land . . . Hermit Jesse Lockhart lives alone on King’s Island, three miles east of Haven Harbor, Maine, where he’s created a ...

  • Tightening the Threads

    A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery - 5

    In the coastal town of Haven Harbor, blood runs thicker than water -- and just as freely . . . Antique dealer Sarah Byrne has never unspooled the truth about her past to anyone -- not even friend and fellow Mainely Needlepointer Angie Curtis. But ...



  • Pizza to Die for

    At fourteen, future chef Mikki Norden is ready for any kitchen emergency - except the unexpected death of her mentor, Mr. Baldacci. But Mikki's learned a lot about solving crimes from her mother, an almost-published mystery author, so when the local ...

  • Thread the Halls

    A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery - 6

    Christmas in Haven Harbor, Maine, means family, trouble, and murder... This Yuletide season, there's no time for Angie Curtis and Patrick West to linger under the mistletoe. Patrick's being needled by his mother -- movie star Skye West -- to set ...

  • Contrary Winds

    It's 1777. The fate of the American Revolution is in serious doubt, and new immigrants fourteen-year-old Rory Campbell and his sister Sarah want to be part of the excitement. Their older cousins are already working for independence - Malcolm in the a...

  • For Freedom Alone

    Three young people, their Highland home burned by the British, struggle to survive in the slums of Edinburgh, Scotland, already full of refugees from the Irish potato famine and the industrial revolution. Dreaming of America, fifteen-year-old Meggie ...

  • Thread Herrings

    A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery - 7

    Embroidery to die for... Angie's first auction may turn out to be her last -- when she bids on a coat of arms that someone would literally kill to possess... Tagging along to an estate sale with her fellow Needlepointer, antiques shop owne...

  • Justice & Mercy

    It's April of 1865. Disabled Civil War veteran lawyer Aaron Stone, visiting his Aunt Cornelia in upstate New York State and hoping to end the pain and nightmares only opium and morphine can mitigate, finds a bludgeoned body revealed by receding Erie ...

  • Thread on Arrival

    A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery - 8

    In this coastal New England town, folks take care of the needy -- but someone is killing without kindness . . . Ike Hamilton is a part of the Haven Harbor community just like anyone else, though he’s fallen on hard times and has to make do on d...

  • Thread and Buried

    A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery - 9

    Haven Harbor is an authentic coastal Maine town -- which makes it the perfect location for a new film production. But now it’s become the scene of a crime . . . Needlepointers Angie and Sarah are helping with set design for the movie being shot...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lea Wait has published 27 books.

Lea Wait does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Thread and Buried, was published in November 2019.

The first book by Lea Wait, Shadows at the Fair, was published in July 2002.

Yes. Lea Wait has 2 series.
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