The Calico Trail

Patchwork #22

by Kristin Eckhardt

This is another volume in the Patchwork Mysteries series, published by Guideposts.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Christian Fiction, Christian

296 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Kristin Eckhardt
aka
Kristin Gabriel

Kristin Eckhardt is the author of more than thirty-five books, including fourteen for Guideposts. She's won two national awards for her writing, and her first book was made into a TV movie. She and her husband have three children and live in central Nebraska. Kristin enjoys baking, reading and spending time with her family.

Reviews

[Cheryl]

A very enjoyable story with interesting history. Sarah's son's mother-in-law comes to visit for 3 weeks until a family reunion on her side of the family. She brings a quilt and some letters and has Sarah trying to figure out what it means. Sarah's two granddaughters have to do a project for school so they work on the quilt also. The quilt blocks trace the passage of the wagon trail to Oregon but something is off, the letters that were written don't match what the blocks say. They have a lot of work to figure it out. At the same time Sarah is involved with the unhappy teenager who is staying at her house.

[Roberta]

Sarah helps her two granddaughters, Amy and Audrey, with their history homework but becomes involved in her neighbors' family crisis while helping to plan a graduation party and trying to finish a quilting project on a deadline. This leaves her almost no time to canoodle with Liam. To complicate matters, Sarah's rival granny, Patty, just showed up and announced that she is spending three weeks in town, taking Amy and Audrey shopping for anything their little heart's desire.

It becomes painfully obvious that the books in this series are written by different authors from an outline supplied by the publisher, when a subject is handled adequately in earlier books by an author who either knows the subject or has taken ten minutes to look it up online and then that same subject becomes the source of a series of bloopers in a later book because the next author is clueless.

[Jordyn]

I finally finished thus book! It was so cute with a few twists and turns along the way I really enjoyed how it included the letters from the Hollander family and everything worked out in the end. I loved the Hollander family story and enjoyed reading this book even though I sneeked a peek and spoiled myself lol! Overall a very cute story with a great mystery I only wish it didn't take me so long to read it!

[Heidi Indahl]

I’ve read several of the books from this series and this is my favorite yet! I love that these don’t really need to be read in order.

[Carol]

Always a great read. Trying to solve the mysteries as Sarah does. ALways ready for the next book.

[Nancy]

Another fun adventure and quilt mystery for Sarah and her family.

[Pam Silverman]

Love this series

[Cynthia]

This was one of the best!

[PottWab Regional Library]

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[Karen]

Sarah helps her twin grand daughters with their genealogy project and their other Grammy sends a quilt for Maggie and herself to visit. Discrepancies in the letters versus the story of the quilt blocks has Sarah stumped until the end when she visits the original Willow Creek church.

[Jewett]

This series is fun along with a bit of education. The characters seem very real and this particular book combines quilting with history in a neat way.

[Bess]

Only 3 more left to go in the series. I'm going to be so sad when it's over....

[Lisa]

Great book! I love how even though this series has different authors, you can not tell a diference. The characters are the same. Great story!