Cricket McRae

A Home Crafting Mystery

1 - Lye in Wait (Oct-2007)
2 - Heaven Preserve Us (Aug-2008)
3 - Spin a Wicked Web (Mar-2009)
4 - Something Borrowed, Something Bleu (Jul-2010)
5 - Wined and Died (Jul-2011)
6 - A Deadly Row to Hoe (Nov-2012)

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  Lye in Wait
  

  • Oct-2007
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Home Crafting Mystery - 1
  

  Cocoa butter soap, check. Lemon lip balm, check. A dead body?
  
  That's just what Sophie Mae Reynolds finds in her workroom: the corpse of Walter Hanover, the neighborhood handyman. He died from drinking lye, something she has in good supply. But...

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  Heaven Preserve Us
  

  • Aug-2008
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Home Crafting Mystery - 2
  

  A reputation as a small town busybody sleuth. A gum-cracking boss who keeps calling her "babe." Now a suicidal phone stalker? Great. After solving the messy mystery of her neighborhood handyman's lye-induced death, thirty-something Sophie Mae Rey...

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  Spin a Wicked Web
  

  • Mar-2009
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Home Crafting Mystery - 3
  

  Things are getting serious between Sophie Mae and Detective Ambrose. But there's another love in her life -- spinning. Pursuing her newfound passion is great fun . . . until fellow co-op member Ariel is found strangled to death with Sophie Mae's firs...

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  Something Borrowed, Something Bleu
  

  • Jul-2010
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Home Crafting Mystery - 4
  

  Love -- and stinky cheese -- are in the air Sophie Mae has accepted Barr's marriage proposal, and they're trying to keep her mother, Anna Belle, from taking over their no-fuss, no-muss wedding plans. But when Mom finds a cryptic suicide note that So...

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  Wined and Died
  

  • Jul-2011
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Home Crafting Mystery - 5
  

  Something is brewing in Cadyville, and it's not only dandelion wine. Sophie Mae is intrigued by a recently discovered cassette recording in which a therapist fearfully contemplates her client's murderous threats. When the same therapist ends up dead,...

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  A Deadly Row to Hoe
  

  • Nov-2012
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Home Crafting Mystery - 6
  

  As a member of a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm, Sophie Mae wrangles weeds in exchange for tasty, organic treats. But she almost loses her appetite when a dead body is found in the compost heap. The murder victim is Darla Klick, an ornith...

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