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Having traded in her career as a successful investigative journalist for the life of a stay-at-home mom in picturesque Cumberland Creek, Virginia, Annie can't help but feel that something's missing. But she finds solace in a local "crop circle" of scrapbookers united by chore-shy husbands, demanding children, and occasional fantasies of their former single lives. And when the quiet idyll of their small town is shattered by a young mother's suicide, they band together to find out what went wrong. . .

Annie resurrects her reporting skills and discovers that Maggie Rae was a closet scrapbooker who left behind more than a few secrets--and perhaps a few enemies. As they sift through Maggie Rae's mysteriously discarded scrapbooks, Annie and her "crop" sisters begin to suspect that her suicide may have been murder. It seems that something sinister is lurking beneath the town's beguilingly calm façade--like a killer with unfinished business. . .

"A scrapbook of zany small town life with characters you'll want to visit again and again in each new novel." --Emilie Richards, author of Sunset Bridge

"Imagine the housewives of Wisteria Lane sipping tea, scrapbooking, and solving murders, and you have this gem of a debut." --Lois Winston, author of Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun

"Intriguing characters, eerie happenings. . .kept me guessing 'til the end." --Clare O'Donohue

Includes tips and a glossary of terms for the modern scrapbooker!

Length: 303 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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About the Author

Mollie Cox Bryan is the author of the Agatha-award nominated Cumberland Creek Mysteries. This year, she's launching a new series: Cora Crafts Mysteries. The first book is DEATH AMONG THE DOILIES out in August 2016. She also penned MRS. ROWE'S LITTLE BOOK OF SOUTHERN PIES and MRS. ROWE'S RESTAURANT COOKBOOK; A LIFETIME OF RECIPES FROM THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY . She also is the author of a Kindle book HONEY, I'M SORRY I KILLED YOUR AQUASAURS (AND OTHER SHORT ESSAYS ON THE PARENTING LIFE.) --This text refers to the mass_market edition.

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ASIN : B005QFC6VK
Publisher : Kensington Books; Original edition (24 October 2011)
Language : English
File size : 1252 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 303 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 300,772 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 1,663 in Cosy Craft & Hobby Mysteries
- 3,985 in Cosy Animal Mysteries
- 5,559 in Amateur Sleuth Mysteries (Books)

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a light and easy read.

Reviewed in Australia on 6 July 2014

This is a rather fun mystery novel. While not dark and gripping the story is a good read. Some valuable Scrapbooking hints too.

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Hazel Grant

One Star

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2014

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Not my type of book but good value for those for whom it is.

harris

an ok read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2014

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Daytime TV is what it felt like. Big gaps in characters and unrealistic plot. But for some reason I may buy next book!

Debb23

Unexpected

Reviewed in the United States on 11 June 2020

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I'm having a hard time reviewing this book.
It grabs you right from the start, and you start to get involved with the characters then it spins to another character who is actually the main protagonist. It had me a little confused for a bit. The story is a little dark, a young mother supposedly kills herself and her back story that comes out was surprising. I didn't like the overall feeling that all men are scum, lazy husband, cheating husband, sexist men, it got a bit much.
On the upside, I did enjoy the characters, especially the woman that runs the scrapbook group and Vera's mother. The mystery was interesting, but if you don't like discussion about sex, I will warn you there is quite a bit of talk in this story about it.
This book was just not what I was expecting.

susan

Well Crafted Fiction

Reviewed in the United States on 30 March 2017

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I really expected this to be another "cozy mystery" populated with predictable, cliched characters, but since I'm a scrapbooker, I decided it would be a fun read. Besides, all those Hannah Swenson novels were making me hungry. And since she included recipes, maybe this author would supply pictures oh great pages. (She didn't.). I was taken from the first chapter by the quality and complexity of the writing and the character development. The women were anything but predictable and the stories developed cohesively and compellingly. I totally recommend this novel.

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Elisabeth

Creative approach to storytelling

Reviewed in the United States on 11 February 2012

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This is a wonderful book. The author has a fresh approach to the narrative. While there is a protagonist, she doesn't hog the narration. It's passed between the women of the scrapbooking crop. We get to experience the inner life of more than one of these women, even as they struggle to understand the inner life of the woman who has met tragedy.

My only complaint is that if you want a character with a non-traditional career like quantum physics, it behooves you to really know at least some quantum physics. Otherwise, it comes off more like new age metaphysics. You wouldn't make that mistake about teaching or nursing or probably any other traditional career. The author needs to do enough research into her topic to make the character believable. It's obvious the author doesn't understand physics, so we don't believe the character could have really been a research scientist.

So much for my soapbox, I loved the book. It is different enough to be all the more interesting, but has the conventional virtues of plot, location, characterizations, etc to be just plain enjoyable to read.

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