Sins and Needles — Monica Ferris

As full-time owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has untangled plenty of twisted skeins in the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mystery series. But she'll need more than a thimbleful of courage and common sense to solve the latest conundrum...

Sins and Needles

When adoptee Lucille Jones comes to town researching her roots, Betsy notices that she bears a remarkable resemblance to local Jan Henderson. Betsy introduces the look-alikes and they quickly hit it off. But then Jan's wealthy great-aunt is found dead. A stiff metal wire helped the elderly woman into her grave--a double-zero knitting needle, in fact. Just like the kind Jan knits with.

Lucille begs Betsy to help clear her new friend's name. And while going through her aunt's effects, Jan finds an old pillow lined with an embroidered map of Lake Minnetonka. Betsy intends to follow the threads. Who knows--it could just possibly lead to buried treasure. Or, perhaps, to a secret that someone would kill to keep buried...