Buttons & Burglary - A Craft and Ghost Cozy Mystery

Lucinda Race

Summary

Enjoy this humorous, small-town, psychic, cozy mystery by best-selling and award-winning Lucinda Race.Thread carefully—a fashionable pair of sofa sleuths unbutton a mystery that could cost them everything.Burglary, She ButtonedFashion designer Claudia Grant is finally feeling at home in Drakes Bay. Her dress shop is thriving, her monthly dinners with vintage-loving Fiona Doyle are a cozy highlight—and she’s even grown used to sharing the space with her ghostly Uncle Herman. But when a bride-to-be brings in a vintage wedding dress missing its buttons, Claudia turns to Fiona, who always seems to have just the right antique treasure.Only this time, the treasure comes at a potentially deadly cost.When Claudia arrives for their Sunday night supper, dessert in hand, she finds Fiona unconscious—and the box of buttons she’d promised to show her, stolen. With the police short on leads, Claudia and her best friend, Beth, decide to get their sleuth on and unravel the mystery themselves, stitch by stitch.Can Claudia thread the needle before the thief turns violent again in a town where secrets are as well-kept as heirloom lace?Buttons & Burglary is the second in the “A Dress Designer Cozy Mystery Series” series from award-winning author Lucinda Race. Cozy up, settle in, and prepare to be haunted… in the best possible way!

Available since: 07/02/2025.

Print length: 225 pages.

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