Books by Arlene Sachitano

In the air there's a feeling of…murder?It's the holiday season in Foggy Point, Washington, and after a tumultuous summer and fall, quilter Harriet Truman is hoping to create happy memories for her first Christmas with husband James and their foster son Luke. Harriet and her quilt group the Loose Threads make holiday quilts for the front windows of the merchants on Main Street. The stores decorate to match their quilts, and the town takes on a storybook feel. The week-long community festivities have barely begun when shop owners begin dying. Harriet soon realizes she's being stalked by a gray car. Why would someone want to kill the merchants of Foggy Point? Is the gray car following her the killer, or is it something else entirely?

Family can be murderA 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 is found dead in Aiden's temporary living quarters, and all the evidence points to him. Unless Harriet and the Threads can track down the real killer, Harriet's blooming romance may wither on the stem.

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 drawn into the world of domestic violence when Loose Thread Sarah Ness calls from the emergency room, where she's landed as a result of a vicious beating by her fiancé Seth Pratt.Sarah initially refuses to consider going to the shelter but is forced to change her mind when she wakes to find Seth dead beside her in bed. Is Harriet's friend a killer, or did someone else want Seth dead? Will Harriet put herself in the killer's sights if she tries to figure it out?

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 local homeless camp.Then one of the homeless men is strangled, and a few days later a second man is also murdered. Were they victims of a serial killer, or of someone closer to home?With the detectives of the Foggy Point Police department trapped on the wrong side of a rock slide that isolates the community, and dead bodies at the homeless camp, it''s up to Harriet and the Threads to figure out who is killing people and why-before they become the next victims.