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Every year, Yorktown, Virginia, relives its role in the Revolutionary War by celebrating the anniversary of the British surrender in 1781. This year, plans include a re-enactment of the original battle and a colonial craft fair. Meg Langslow has returned to her home town for the festivities—and to sell her wrought-iron works of art. Except, of course, for the pink-painted flamingos she reluctantly made for her mother's best friend—she's
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Kensington Publishing Corp
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[2023]
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English
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"When murder mars Snowberry Creek City's first ever arts and crafts fair, leading to the disappearance of vendors amid suspicious circumstances, Abby McCree must unravel the clues to catch a killer--especially when someone close to her may take the fall"--
4) Fiber gathering: knit, crochet, spin and dye more than 25 projects inspired by America's festivals
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Wiley Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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"After stumbling upon the dead body of an Elvis impersonator during the celebrity impersonating contest, psychic painter Celeste Cabot is 'all shook up,' and she, with the help of his spirit, sets out to find the real killer among all the fake celebrities"--
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Kensington Books
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English
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"Artist Celeste Cabot welcomes the chance to show her paintings at a craft fair in her hometown of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where she and her Chihuahua, Van Gogh, can park her vintage Shasta trailer and sell her creations, too. Unfortunately, her sales take a hit when a customer returns a painting, claiming it's haunted. When a fellow vendor discovers images hidden in Celeste's artwork--and a ghost pays her a late-night visit--she's shocked to realize...
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Amish Inn mysteries ; 12
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Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Pleasant Creek, Indiana's first annual summer arts and crafts fair has Liz Eckardt beaming. Tourists are coming out of the woodwork to get their hands on Amish-inspired goods and the Olde Mansion Inn, her bed-and-breakfast, is full to the rafters. But when sawbucks start disappearing from the vendors and Mayor Jackson Cross's furniture samples are marred, it's clear someone is trying to throw a monkey wrench into the festivities. Unfortunately, Jackson...
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Berkley Prime Crime
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[2020]
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English
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"A killer may craft the perfect crime, but as every knitter worth her yarn knows--murder wool out. Mother's Day should be a cinch for the good folks of the Crandalsburg Craft Fair, and knitting enthusiast Lia Geiger has a good feeling about this year's yield. But things quickly get knotty when Lia's daughter announces she's quit her job and Lia finds herself tangled up in the murder of her best friend's ex-husband. While Belinda's alibi quickly gets...
10) Road trip!
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Annie's Attic
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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The members of the Hook and Needle Club have made many exciting and adventurous road trips together through the years, but the opportunity to travel to Texas for a needlecraft convention is more than Annie Dawson and her friends can pass up. For Annie, it's a trip back to her old stomping grounds from her days when she and her late husband, Wayne, ran an automobile dealership. It's been more than three years since Wayne's death and since Annie moved...
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Berkley Prime Crime
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2021.
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English
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"The Craft Fair may have hit a few snags lately, but knitting enthusiast Lia Geiger is hopeful her quiet life will return to its usual patterns in no time. Her daughter has officially moved back home, and sure, the house is a little crowded with Hayley's take-home work from the alpaca farm, but that's a price Lia will happily pay. All seems well until Cori Littlefield, a new vendor with a gift for crochet, is found dead, sending shock waves through...
12) Wicked weaves
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Assistant professor Jessie Morton has been working the Renaissance faire every summer since she graduated from college. Now that she's studying for her Ph.D., it's not just work, it's research. This summer her apprenticeship is with Mary Shift - a skilled basket maker with a dark past. Things appear to be going without a hitch, until a man is bid a deadly fare-thee-well and Mary's signature weave is found wrapped around his neck.
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Kensington Books
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"Rising up against the beautiful backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Biltmore Estate is a magnificent mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, built as a summer home for George Washington Vanderbilt II--yes, of those Vanderbilts--during the Gilded Age. Nowadays, it's the site of an annual craft fair. Unfortunately, it's also about to become a crime scene... Celeste is hard to miss as she pulls up with her pink and white Shasta trailer and adorable...
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Kensington Books
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"Celeste Cabot has a flair for painting--and a touch of paranormal talent too. She's just arrived to sell her artwork at a big craft fair in North Carolina, complete with rides, games, and deep-fried everything. But the sunny landscape takes on a darker hue when her Chihuahua, Van Gogh, leads her to the riverbank--and to a body that was definitely not part of her design. With help from a handsome fellow artist, Celeste sets out to draw the brazen...
16) Ghastly glass
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English
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Halloween is coming to the Renaissance Faire and Jesse Morton doing research on Renaissance crafts has a lot on her plate. She has a crabby boss at her glassblowing apprenticeship and her boyfriend found her in a seemingly compromising position with the boss's creepy nephew. Then death comes to the Grim Reaper - or rather to the man playing him. Then the message "Death shall find thee" found on the Grim Reaper's robe starts appearing on village walls....
