Strangled Skein

A three-hundred-year-old house should be full of metaphorical skeletons, not real ones.

But when Paisley Sutton is invited in to salvage the valuables from the attic of an old plantation house, she finds more than she expected amongst the Christmas decorations and trunks of old letters. As she begins to research, she discovers the story of this house has ties to almost everyone she knows, including her own family.

Can Paisley be brave enough to face the facts, and will facing them save her?

Step into Strangled Skein, the riveting next installment in the Stitches in Crime series--where Paisley’s keen eye for historical treasures unravels a web of secrets that hits closer to home than ever before, proving that sometimes the most dangerous discoveries are the ones that connect directly to your own past.

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Praise for the Stitches in Crime series:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ So many mysteries packed in--I almost lost track!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Wonderful characters that feel like family--such an engaging read.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Love how history and mystery are stitched together.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ My kind of cozy mystery--full of heart and suspense.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A great mix of past secrets and present-day discoveries.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Paisley’s best mystery yet--full of twists and turns.

ACF Bookens loves a good mystery, a quaint bookshop, and a good cup of coffee. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where she takes joy in the mountain views and the quiet back roads. She lives with her son and three rescue cats who are, of course, nocturnal.

Aslan, the cat in her books, is based on her departed first cat by that name, who spent an inordinate amount of time digging up her houseplants.

In her books, Bookens addresses issues of justice and writes with intention to disrupt the white supremacy that says that ＂whiteness＂ is normal by making purposeful note of every character’s ethnicity. She is weary of books that assume everyone is white unless the author says otherwise because being white is not the default of reality.

Her hope is that readers enjoy escaping into her stories and are challenged, just a little, to make themselves better people and the world a better place from the reading.