Quilting mysteries (Mary Marks)

When quilter Martha Rose heads out on her morning walk, she finds the battered body of baseball coach Dax Martin in the arroyo behind her house. Martha calls her boyfriend, LAPD homicide detective Arlo Beavers, but when he detains her sweet neighbor Ed for questioning, she is determined to find the killer. Dax was a bully and a blowhard who clashed with several people in the neighborhood over the new baseball stadium built in Martha's Encino backyard....

Funerals can be patchy affairs for Martha Rose and her close-knit circle of friends--especially in the case of a missing body. When Birdie Watson's husband Russell is killed during a bank robbery, Martha just wants to support her grieving friend. But en route to the burial plot in Oregon, Martha makes a harrowing discovery about the casket's contents--instead of Russell, she finds an unidentified man. Now Martha and her quilting klatch can't rest...

"The results of a DNA test change a woman's life . . . A mystery combined with wry humor" from the author of Knot What You Think (Kirkus Reviews).

In tracing her ancestry, quilter Martha Rose discovers a ritzy half-sister, a stash of family secrets, and a decades-old mystery that only she can unravel . . .

Martha Rose is shocked to find she has a half-sister, especially one so different from her....

"Has Martha’s fellow quilter and dear friend Birdie Watson become unraveled? Birdie and her new husband have decided to join the Mystical Feather Society, a spiritist group living on a commune in the mountains of Ojai, California. Before her free-spirited friend makes a huge mistake, Martha organizes a surprise visit to check out the commune. While white-robed members conduct a seancé in a glass yurt, their leader—Royal St. Germain—is nowhere...