Description
A needlework pattern of unusual complexity arrives at Pines and Needles with impeccable provenance and a price tag to match. Opal Jensen, who knows fiber and tools the way other people know faces, takes one look at it and goes very quiet.
She has seen this pattern before. Or rather, she has seen the original — the one that was taken from the woman who designed it, and never returned. That woman has not been seen since.
What begins as a question of attribution becomes something considerably darker when the current owner of the pattern turns up dead. Roxie starts asking questions. The answers keep pointing somewhere nobody at the community wants to look.
