Secrets in the Storm

Patchwork #19

by Susan Page Davis

The setting is winter in Maple Hill. After a winter storm, Sarah and Maggie discover a broken stained glass window in the local library. They help the librarian clean up the broken glass and reports the incident to the police. Of course, this is another mystery for Sarah to help solve. It is an entertaining and somewhat suspenseful book that you don't want to miss.

Genres: Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Christian Fiction, Christian

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

FROM AUTHOR'S WEBSITE: I'm a native of central Maine, and grew up on a small farm with a wonderful mom and dad, three sisters and a brother. Most of my books take place in small towns, many of them in Maine.

My husband, Jim, and I moved to his birth state, Oregon, for a while after we were married, but decided to move back to Maine and be near my family. It allowed our six children to grow up feeling close to their cousins and grandparents, and some of Jim's family have even moved to Maine!

Our children are all home-schooled. When Jim retired from his vocation as an editor at a daily newspaper, we moved from Maine to Kentucky.

I've always loved reading, history, and horses. These things come together in several of my historical books.
Another longtime hobby of mine is genealogy, which has led me down many fascinating paths. I'm proud to be a DAR member! Some of Jim's and my quirkier ancestors have inspired fictional characters.

For many years I worked for the Central Maine Morning Sentinel as a freelancer. This experience was a great help in developing fictional characters and writing realistic scenes. I also published nonfiction articles in several magazines and had several short stories appear in Woman's World, Grit, and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

After a winter storm comes to town,Sarah helps the library clean up a broken stained glass window. They discover that a brick had been thrown through the window. They also found that someone had Been sleeping at the library. While Sarah goes around trying to find out who broke the window, she and the town plan a big fundraiser to replace the window. Sarah starts a quilt that looks like the window. Old feuds are brought to light.

[Loraine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sarah Hart, a quilt restoration specialist, is once again on the trail of a mystery. The beautiful stained glass window in the library has been broken by a vandal, and someone has been sleeping in the library's custodian closet. Is it one person or two that is involved in the library's mysterious happenings.

I enjoyed how the Friends of the Library worked together to put on a dinner gala and auction to pay for the stained glass window above what the city funds could afford. I also thought it was very interesting that Sarah took the original blueprints for the window and created a quilt with her quilting friends to place in the auction.

[Roberta · Rating 3 out of 5]

The mystery wasn't the least bit difficult to solve. The library's stained glass window is broken and the Friends of the Maple Hill Library vote to hold a silent auction to raise the money to replace it. Sarah organizes the women, both quilters and newbies, to form a quilting bee to raise money to sew a stained glass window quilt for the auction. Instead of working on her own, in this book, Sarah coordinates her sleuthing with Lisa, a young police officer, to find out who was responsible for the vandalism.

I am a little disappointed that Sarah did not at least try to get one or both of her grandchildren involved in the quilting bee. It seems like a missed opportunity. I would also like to state here that the only other person I know personally who is a quilter in my town is a man and Wayne is a far more experienced quilter than I am.

[April Mc Vey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this winter mystery. Love the small town community and combined solution to a local travesty

[Charla Vaught · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoy this series!

[Kelli]

Nice cozy mystery

[Heidi Indahl · Rating 3 out of 5]

The mystery was only very loosely connected to a quilt this time- I missed the quilt lore overlapping history.

[Dina · Rating 3 out of 5]

2/10/15-2/16/15

The beautiful stained glass window in the library gets vandalized and it'll be very expensive to have another one made. The friends of the library and the town of Maple Hill come together to raise the money needed for the new window since the insurance company will only pay to put a traditional window in as a replacement. Sarah Hart and about a dozen ladies in town work together on piecing a "stained glass window" quilt for a silent auction item in the fund raiser put together by the town. Sarah also goes about her "snooping" to find out who threw the brick that broke the window.
This book wasn't bad at all, I just wasn't as interested in it as I've been in some of the other. I'd actually give it 3 1/2 stars if goosreads had that option.
I did really like the ending that that Sarah and Liam will finally be going on a date.

[Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a light-hearted series that seems to have several authors. Sarah Hart is shocked when the 100 year old stain glass window in the local library is shattered by a brick. She decides to make a quilt to auction off to assist with the funds needed to restore the window and also begins to search for whomever did the damage. The mystery was not hard to solve and was rather obvious but the book was well done and fast moving. I enjoyed it but it wasn't as good as the episode in the series that was written by the team of Pam Hanson and Barbara Andrews. Close but not a winner.

[Jewett · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series is not the best writing or the most complicated plots, but somehow I find it charming and I keep on reading all of them.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

February in Maple Hill, Sarah Hart and her daughter in law Maggie and Spencer the Librarian notice the big stained glass window of the library broken after a big storm. Did the storm crash it?