A Scandal Trimmed in Lace — A Thornwick Hat Shop Mystery, Book 13

Some secrets are hidden in plain sight. Some are sewn in stitches of time.

When milliner Agnes Ambrose turns over a bride's treasured family wedding-lace, one small wrong corner catches her eye: a humble flower worked by a loving hand, where a grand family's crest should be. Sixty years of proud Fairleigh history says the lace is exactly what it claims to be. Agnes's shears, and her gift for reading the truth off a thing, say otherwise.

But a loose thread, once pulled, does not stop. Before the week is out, the one old lacemaker who could name the lace's true maker lies dead, and her innocent granddaughter stands accused of the crime. To save a girl from the gallows, Agnes must unpick a lie stitched into a great house's very name, and prove what a wronged woman signed into her finest work a lifetime ago.

In sleepy Thornwick, the past is never truly buried. It is only mended over, and a mend only has to be found once.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Heirloom lace and secrets stitched into history
• A race to save an innocent girl
• Class, family pride, and a great house built on a lie
• Clean mysteries with no graphic violence or bad language

Book 13 of A Thornwick Hat Shop Mystery. Read the series in order, or jump in here.