The Ghostly Quilts on Main

Colebridge Community #5

by Ann Hazelwood

In this fifth novel of the Colebridge Community Series, busy flower shop owner Anne Brown Dickson takes on the task of helping fellow shop owners on Main Street. A unique quilt show develops that impacts the street throughout the fall and winter season. In the process, Anne is reluctantly assisted by a host of ghostly participants. On the home front, Grandmother initiates some activities of her own that may reap some harmful results. All is not gloom and doom, however, as Anne makes changes to her business and best friend, Nancy has some upcoming changes of her own.

Genres: Cozy Mystery, Romance

328 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2014

About the author

Ann Hazelwood was the owner of a quilt shop for 30 years. She has always adored quilting and is a certified quilt appraiser. In addition to her cozy quilt fiction, she has written travel guides and quilting non-fiction.

Reviews

[Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

The plot and characters are great, but this book really needed an editor. As a retired English teacher, I cringed at the number of grammar/usage errors in this book.

[Zen · Rating 3 out of 5]

In book five of the Colebridge Community series, our protagonist Anne Brown Dickson is a busy lady. The addition to her flower shop is completed and she holds a ribbon cutting ceremony. She hosts her mother-in-law and sister-in-law for Thanksgiving. Her ghostly grandmother is still up to some shenanigans. Anne's main focus is an outdoor quilt show in the winter on Main Street, along with a raffle quilt that represents the ghosts that haunt some of the shops on Main Street. The ghosts are not too happy with the raffle quilt but the show is a success. At the end of the book, Anne has a bit of a breakdown and realizes that she cannot continue her life at such a breakneck pace. She barely has time for her loving husband Sam! With some help from her ghostly grandmother, Anne beings to reassess her life in hopes of returning to what she really loves-I hope in book six she will figure out what that is!

[Casarah Nance · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quilts on Main, the title speaks for itself, it is about a small town and preparations for an event that had business owners display quilts downtown. The uniqueness of this idea is that the one special quilt is designed to feature all the ghost stories the locals have about shops on main. After the quilt is made, each shop was to feature it before the raffle and each shop had displayed an uprising in ghostly activity.

This book was the fifth in a series. I had not read any previous. The writer had a calming tone, even though the story was about ghosts it felt mellow. There was some interactions between characters that I felt unresolved, probably because it is a series. I just really felt this book was relaxing and gave me the small town feels.

[Sherry D'ambrosio · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing but . . .

With book 4 in this series I complained about so many chapters and paragraphs ending with "Hmmm." There was less of that this time and more paranormal activity as the community worked on a fund raiser centered on quilts. That was interesting even though I've experienced such a show. What was disappointing was that the first 5 chapters were largely a recap of all that went before. Too much on that. I felt this should have read as a stand alone novel. I continued to read through to the end in hopes more might be revealed about the ghost in the house. I suppose I will continue to Book 6 since it is included with my Kindle membership, but frankly would not if I had to pay for it.

[Heidi A · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is my favorite of the Coleridge series so far. I’d probably rate it closer to 3.5 but I just can’t give it a 4 because that means I really liked or loved the book. I really like the quilting parts and the female interactions. The way the author drags me down with descriptions of things like the restaurants in great detail that serve no purpose to storyline keep me from getting fully drawn in to any of her books so far.

[Deborah Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

enjoyable read

As far as a review goes there isn’t much to say. This continues in the same vein as the others and follows The Dicksons and their daily adventures. Anne finds herself organizing a quilt show and expanding her business and becomes overwhelmed. All predictable and enjoyable. The one comment I have is that Nancy calls her twins identical. Yet she has a boy and a girl and the only type of twin they could possibly be is FRATERNAL

[Rhonda · Rating 1 out of 5]

So, I start listening to this book and the first thing is, the narrator is just awful. There are those voices that grate but this was a bit more. It was very clipped and no tone inflection, very flat. Then the writing...not impressed. I do like fun stories and this one...well...was a drag. If you like these books and author, good on you. This is but one persons humble opinion.

[Rose Wood · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the 5th book in the Colebridge Community Series. A small town charm set in Missouri. Told in 3rd person by Anne. The first chapter was a review of the previous books. There is a paranormal story to it as well as a quilting story. I was not the right audience for this story. It was predictable and slow paced for having short chapters.

[Shelia Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book Series

I have always gotten sad when a book series comes to an end. I never want them to end. Maybe it's my way of escaping and vicariously living through the lives of the book characters. Oh well at least I have a little time left to enjoy the Colebridge

[Charli Woolsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Main street Quilt show

Oh, I can't wait to read the next book in the series. I am a quilter
and have been to Sisters OR. I could just visualize the quilts hanging on the buildings.

[Dru · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book but sometimes the author gets too wordy and it just goes on and on. This book could have been much shorter and still got the story across.

[Cathy Murray · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Colebridge Community series does not loose its sparkle in this 5th book of the seriess.

[kc · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoying this series of quilts with a just a touch of the supernatural.

[Deborah R Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Living loving and being

Good story about the spirits and community and friends and family! Enjoyed the whole book from. End to end! Will be reading the next book of Ann Hazelwood!!

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I enjoyed this book, it seemed like so many things were going on that nothing was fully developed.

[Tonya Mathis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Originally this would have been 4 stars , but the last 4 or 5 pages turned it into 5 stars, I really enjoyed this book.

[Diana Street · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love a simple life

Ann Hazelwood is a good writer. The story line is simple and easy to read. Thank you Ann for your passion to write.

[Sue Slatter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anne

I love Anne like a sister. I hope she finds it in her to start a family can wait to read the next book.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Paper

[Kelly Himmelberger · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book far exceeded the previous book. I’m looking forward to starting the next book, Quilted Lilies.

[robin warrens · Rating 5 out of 5]

amazing

I love all the books so far by Ann Hazelwood I’m a new reader to her but I do enjoy them

[Jill · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is # 5 in a series and I want to read them all. Anne owns the local flower shop and thinks a good fundraiser would be a quilt show..........outside? in the Missouri late winter??? The raffle item is a quilt showing the Ghosts that inhabit the shops in the area.

I wish there would be recipes for some of the foods the author writes about.

[Carolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

While this series is getting a little ho-hum, they are still a cozy read.

[Meri-Lyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

More of the same and I will probably read the last 2 in the series

[Judy Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anne,Ann

The saga continues. It was OK but slower than the previous ones. Grandmother's spirit is a lively one in this book.

[Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ditto my review of The Basement Quilt.

[Di Schlenk]

A good read in this enchanting series.