Mystery reading and quilt making may seem like disparate interests, but irrepressible Amish grandmother, Hannah Miller, moves between them with enthusiasm. With her formerly Amish granddaughter, Caroline, now an attorney, Hannah adds a third one: solving murders. When Hannah finds her friend, antiques dealer Annette Adams, murdered, Hannah views it as more than coincidence. Annette's husband has recently disappeared. Hannah and Caroline investigate Annette's death; the list of suspects grows. Annette's sister, a television commentator is a prime suspect, but she was hundreds of miles away. Annette's ex-husband, embittered by a custody battle, and Annette's estranged daughter, give each other alibis. The neighbors disliked Annette, but did any want her dead? When Hannah discovers another body, the inept police assume a prowler is responsible. "Murder does not piece together that neatly," Hannah tells Caroline. Like blocks in a quilt, Hannah and Caroline painstakingly stitch information together to find the killer's identity. Unlike quilt making, murder investigation takes them deep into danger, deceit and death, and far away from the safety and tranquility of the Amish. They soon find only their own intelligence and perceptiveness can save them from a killer determined they will be next to die.