It promises to be a busy week for Hannah Swensen. Not only is she whipping up treats for the chamber of commerce booth at the Tri-County fair, she's also judging the baking contest; acting as a magician's assistant for her business partner's husband; trying to coax Moishe, her previously rapacious feline, to end his hunger strike, and performing her own private carnival act by juggling the demands of her mother and sisters. With so much on her plate,...

Betsy Devonshire, full-time owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, investigates the murder of yarn maker Hailey Brent who had a penchant for stealing other's property for her own use.

[Crewel world] After Betsy arrives in Excelsior Minn. and takes a new job at her sister Margot's needlework shop, Margot is murdered. In a friendly town such as this who could have done this? Betsy isn't going to rest until she finds the killer -- [Framed in lace] When an historic ferry is raised from the bottom of the lake a skeleton of a woman is found. An unidentifiable lacelike fabric is found nearby -- [A stitich in time] Betsy's heart is warmed...