Death Threads — Elizabeth Lynn Casey

The members of South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle enjoy their gossip, but the new Yankee librarian, Tori Sinclair, is really giving them something to talk about.

Tori Sinclair is basking in the warmth of her new circle of friends. That is until local author Colby Calhoun reveals an unflattering secret about the town's historic past. He soon finds that when you fray the stitches on the ladies' cloak of southern hospitality, things are bound to fall apart...

Then Colby disappears, leaving a trail of blood but few clues to his possible murder. Tori looks to her sewing circle to help her cut through Sweet Briar's tight weave of ancient feuds and alliances to find him. But when she sees a pattern of townsfolk's age-old southern pride standing in the way of justice, she knows it's time to unravel the mystery...