Scrapbooking
Scrapbooking and other papercrafts have become very popular in recent years, and now we’re starting to see them show up in cozy mysteries.
The Cardmaking Mysteries (Tim Myers) Jennifer Shane takes a leap of faith and opens her own card shop, Custom Card Creations. She hires her sassy aunt Lillian, but business is off to a slow start until the phone rings.
The Cumberland Creek Mysteries (Mollie Cox Bryan) Having traded in her career as a successful investigative journalist for the life of a stay-at-home mom in picturesque Cumberland Creek, Virginia, Annie finds solace in a local “crop circle” of scrapbookers.
The Decoupage Mysteries (Lucy Lawrence) The picturesque town of Morse Point may be a small dot on the New England landscape, but the decoupage class at Vintage Papers is larger than life. With cutouts, glue, and varnish, members create eye-catching projects—and uncover clues to a killing.
The Faith Hunter Scrap This Mysteries (Christina Freeburn) Former US Army JAG specialist, Faith Hunter, returns to her West Virginia home to work in her grandmothers’ scrapbooking store determined to lead an unassuming life after her adventure abroad turned disaster.
The Kiki Lowenstein Mysteries (Joanna Campbell Slan) Pampered, passive Kiki Lowenstein transforms swiftly from cheated-on spouse into a fighter, walking right out of her luxurious life and into a scrapbooking store, where she deftly turns a hobby into a moneymaker.
The Paper Crafts Club Mysteries (Emily Selby) Katie is busy enough as a single mom with a series of dead-end jobs. She barely has time for her passion-paper crafting. But when one of her housecleaning clients turns up dead, stabbed with a paper crafting tool, Katie is in trouble. Can she dig up evidence before another victim drops dead? Or will she take the fall for a crime she didn’t commit?
The ScrapBooking Mysteries (Laura Childs) Business is booming and life is cozy for Carmela at her scrapbooking shop, Memory Mine. The series is written by Laura Childs, with contributions to later books from Diana Orgain and Terrie Farley Moran.