A dead librarian.
A borrowed blanket.
And a mill full of wool that won't stop screaming.
When Gideon Croft's widow inherits half of Aethelburg Springs and announces she's undoing every deal her husband bullied out of the village, nobody believes her — least of all Mina Hawkins, who has her hands full running her grandmother's hand-dyed stall at the Harvest Festival and pretending she knows what she's doing. Then Margaret Talbot is found at the foot of the old mill stairs.
The village calls it a fall. Mina knows better, because the raffle blanket lying beside the body never went down those stairs with anybody. But when she finally makes herself walk into the mill to read what happened there, a hundred years of wool answer at once — and this time she can't shut them out again.
Somewhere inside that roar is a single echo of rage. And Mina would know that gauge anywhere. It belongs to the woman who's been feeding her soup since the day she arrived.
Now she can't touch yarn without bleeding someone else's feelings. She can't explain a word of it to Detective Elias Vance. And the only person who can prove Alma Pereira is innocent is the one woman who's certain she isn't. Because yarn holds the loudest echo. Never the truest voice.
Perfect for fans of paranormal cozy mysteries with village festivals, suspicious knitting circles, a judgmental black cat, slow-burn tension, and a murder hidden behind a harvest lantern.
In Aethelburg Springs, every skein has a story. Some of them are deadly.
When textile conservator Mina Hawkins inherits her grandmother’s yarn shop, The Tangled Skein, she expects tangled inventory, eccentric customers, and enough hand-dyed wool to last several lifetimes.
She doesn’t expect the yarn to remember. A touch can bring a sudden flash of joy, grief, fear, or rage left behind by the people who handled it. Unfortunately for Mina, murder has a way of leaving particularly strong echoes. With a suspiciously well-informed knitting circle, a judgmental black cat named Midnight, and Detective Elias Vance increasingly resigned to finding Mina somewhere near his latest investigation, life in Aethelburg Springs is never quite as peaceful as its cobbled streets and cozy teahouses suggest.
Because Mina is learning one thing her grandmother understood all along: Yarn remembers everything. It just doesn’t always tell the truth clearly.
A Tangled Skein Mystery is a paranormal cozy mystery series filled with village secrets, magical yarn, eccentric neighbors, slow-burn romance, an opinionated shop cat, and murders waiting to be unraveled.
A dead developer.
A half-finished scarf.
And yarn that remembers everything.
When textile conservator Mina Hawkins inherits her grandmother’s yarn shop in the quiet village of Aethelburg Springs, she expects dusty inventory, difficult customers, and a chance to rebuild her life after burnout forced her out of the museum world.
What she doesn’t expect is murder.
When wealthy property developer Gideon Croft is found dead in the alley behind The Tangled Skein, the whole town points fingers at hot-tempered baker Silas Gable. After all, everyone saw them arguing days before the murder.
But Mina discovers something the police don’t understand. A scarf found beside the body was knitted using one of her grandmother’s secret patterns... a pattern only three women in town were ever taught.
And worse? When Mina touches the yarn, she can feel the emotions trapped inside it. Fear. Rage. Desperation. Her grandmother always claimed yarn held echoes of the people who touched it. Mina never believed her… until now. As suspicion spreads through the town square and Detective Elias Vance closes in on the wrong suspect, Mina must untangle a web of secrets hidden beneath Aethelburg Springs’ cozy surface before another person ends up dead.
Because in this town, even handmade gifts can hide deadly intentions.
Perfect for fans of paranormal cozy mysteries packed with small-town secrets, magical crafts, suspicious knitting circles, slow-burn tension, and murder served with tea and apple crumble.
