A romantic mystery about love after loss—and the courage to choose happiness again.Private investigator Jack Drake has everything a man is supposed to want:a Malibu beach mansion, a glamorous movie-star girlfriend, loyal friends, and a successful career.But Jack is still in love with his dead wife—and he's built his life around not moving on.He sleeps too little, worries too much, and keeps his heart carefully sealed off, even as his warm, intelligent neighbo...

In this fifth installment of the award-winning Hadley Carroll Mysteries, Hadley consoles her friend and fellow quilter, Dakota, after the defense attorney is injured and a bystander is killed in front of Dakota's law office in Paducah, Kentucky, the Quilt Capital of the World.Hadley and her staff at the Paducah Pulse newspaper must report on the murder, but a severe ice storm renders investigation impossible when power lines collapse and cell towers freeze. She hunkers wit...

Hadley Carroll's big weekend plans include visiting the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky, with her friends and newfound family, watching an action scene being shot downtown for a Hollywood adventure film, celebrating a birthday, and quilting in Paducah Quilters Quorum.But Hadley, a journalist and the mayor of Paducah, receives bad news from Ashley, the eighteen-year-old who lives with her, and from Dakota, Hadley's best friend.Then, when the movie stunt goes terri...

Readers who love cozy mysteries can't stop singing the praises of Hadley Carroll, a journalist and quilter who lives in Paducah, Kentucky, the Quilt Capital of the World.This witty, generous, and damaged narrator imbues this series with humor, vulnerability, and perceptiveness without shying away from weighty issues. Readers have thanked the author for treating them like adults by facing difficulties head-on, while keeping overt violence off the page and avoiding gore, cursing, or ...

During a weekly Paducah Quilters Quorum session, Hadley worries about her looming deadline for the cookbook she's writing, the pain her best friend is in, her depressed young housemate, and the Paducah mayoral race she's favored to win against her nemesis—corrupt businessman Nick Stoddard. Then she learns that fellow quilter Donna considers the death of a coworker to be suspicious.Adding to her concerns, Hadley will meet the family of her beau, Detective Brandon Green, that night, ...

After performing a daring rescue of a fellow quilter during a robbery at a Walmart in Paducah, Kentucky, also known as Quilt City, journalist and mayoral candidate Hadley Carroll vows to bring the perpetrators to justice after the heist turns tragic.Then, a seemingly unrelated murder and two ominous messages cause Hadley to ask the staff at Paducah Pulse, her weekly newspaper, to find answers. Amid the turmoil, Hadley and Detective Brandon Green finally enjoy their first d...

Jack Drake shares a Malibu beach mansion with a gorgeous movie star but hates his life. The depressed private eye can't shake the death of his wife and can't end his toxic relationship with Hollywood heartthrob Amanda Bigelow.But an at-risk sixteen-year-old who is injured in an inner-city shooting gets Jack unstuck. As a favor to a friend, Jack sequesters Game in the mansion, keeping him safe.Their worldviews differ, but they draw from their histories of loss and grief whil...

The world of quilter and journalist Hadley Carroll unravels when a danger that had been neutralized reemerges, disrupting the peace in Paducah and threatening Hadley's life.Alexander Blevens, the Spur Award-winning author of Arkansas Black and Bycatch, said the following about Quilt City: Payment Declined, the sixth Hadley Carroll Mystery:"Hadley's power to mend tattered lives and piece together evidence, with the help of her fellow quilters, is o...

Quilter Hadley Carroll thinks her life can't get any worse after being demoted from reporter to newspaper courier and having her fiancé, Matt Ackerman, dump her without explanation. But then, while chucking a sack of newspapers into the Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky—known as Quilt City—she finds Matt's body snagged under the transient dock. She knows she'll never find peace if she doesn't figure out why he left her and who killed him, so she gets to work.As QuiltWeek Paducah, the...