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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2007
  • Latest Book:
    January 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Harley Spring Mystery

1 - Chip and Die (Feb-2008)
2 - The Widowmaker (Apr-2010)

A Loose Threads Mystery

1 - Quilt as Desired (May-2007)
2 - Quilter's Knot (Aug-2008)
3 - Quilt as You Go (Nov-2009)
4 - Quilt by Association (Dec-2010)
5 - The Quilt Before the Storm (Feb-2012)
6 - Make Quilts Not War (Apr-2013)
7 - A Quilt in Time (Mar-2014)
8 - Crazy as a Quilt (Apr-2015)
9 - Disappearing Nine Patch (Mar-2016)
10 - Double Wedding Death (Apr-2017)
11 - Quilts Make a Family (Mar-2018)
12 - The 12 Quilts of Christmas (Mar-2019)
13 - A Quilt of a Different Color (Jul-2021)

A Permelia O'Brien Mystery

1 - Double Knit (May-2020)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • Harriet Truman returns to Foggy Point thinking she’s just going to see to her aunt Beth’s customers while the lady takes a European cruise. Instead, she discovers she now owns both business and house, whether she wanted to or not. Still, sheâ€...



  • Harley Spring is a supervisor with a problem. She has to get her group through a certification inspection or Sil-Trac, the large computer chip manufacturer she works for, will lose millions of dollars in contracts. When the man in charge of figuring ...



  • Long-arm quilter Harriet Truman and her quilt group the Loose Threads set off for what should be an enjoyable week of stitching at the Angel Harbor Folk Art School, where member Lauren Sawyer is attending a two-year program in part to quiet the accus...



  • When the dust settles after the Foggy Point Civil War re-enactment, one casualty turns out to be really dead, and his identity sends shockwaves through the community.

    Does a long-lost quilt that suddenly re-appears hold a clue? Harriet and ...



  • No one in Harley Spring's management group is thrilled when the boss sends them to a forest-based team-building retreat. The teamwork turns deadly when Materials Manager Allan Sayers is found at the base of a tree with his head split open. Allan's de...



  • An African woman with a blue-eyed baby arrives in Foggy Point looking for Aiden Jalbert. Within days, she's been murdered, and so is the man who claimed to be her husband. As if that weren't enough, the supposedly African toddler Loose Thread DeAnn a...



  • A storm is bearing down on Foggy Point, Washington, promising strong winds, flooding and power outages. Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads quilt group are sewing flannel rag quilts and making plastic tarps from grocery bags for the denizens of a lo...



  • Nostalgia can be deadly. It’s wintertime in Foggy Point, Washington, and tourists are as scarce as gold-plated thimbles at a thrift store. The denizens of the town decide that a colorful 1960s-themed festival is just the event to bring people out a...



  • Pet quilts are the project of the day for Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads. Local veterinarian Aiden Jalbert decides to set up an animal kennel for the local battered women’s shelter and asks the quilters to sew bedding for it. Harriet is soon ...






  • A quilting conference brings Harriet Truman face-to-face with a past she had been happy to forget. Then she learns the quilter staying at Aiden Jalbert's house is an old flame whose real agenda might not involve needle and thread. Then the old flame ...



  • What happened to Amber? Loose Thread DeAnn Gault is happy her younger half-sister Molly has come home to visit Foggy Point, even after she asks Harriet Truman and the quilting group if they will make quilts as a reward for two $10,000 donors to the C...



  • What could possibly go wrong at an appliqué conference? If you’re Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads, just about anything.

    First, a drunken groom accosts Harriet in the hotel bar, and his outraged bride-to-be decides Harriet is making ...



  • It seemed like a simple project -- make quilts for foster kids getting close to aging out of the system and teach them some useful skills as well. Granted, the foster parents aren’t the most pleasant people, but Luke and Sincere and the others have...



  • In the air there's a feeling of…murder?

    Harriet Truman is looking forward to creating happy Christmas memories with her husband James and their new foster son Luke. She and the rest of the Loose Threads are also delighted to see their spec...



  • What do knitters Permelia O'Brien and Betty Fitzandreu have in common besides a love of knitting? Both have been betrayed by their husbands.Permelia moved to town when her husband left her for a much younger woman. Her new apartment is over the town ...



  • The new year is unusually cold in Foggy Point, Washington. As a result, the new manager of the equestrian center asks Harriet Truman and her quilt group The Loose Threads to make a special type of saddle blanket designed to keep a horse's kidneys war...



  • Permelia O'Brien happily opens the door to the new Portland yarn store where she's scheduled to teach a beginner's knitting class. The last thing she expects to find is a dead body. Yet, here is a man, flat on this back with a knitting needle stickin...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Arlene Sachitano has published 17 books.

Arlene Sachitano does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Louie's Knit Shop, was published in January 2023.

The first book by Arlene Sachitano, Quilt as Desired, was published in May 2007.

Yes. Arlene Sachitano has 3 series.