Crossed by Death

A.C.F. Bookens combines murder, history, genealogy, and single motherhood in the entertaining first book in the Stitches in Crime cozy mystery series, Crossed by Death. Historian Paisley Sutton has been doing salvage work for the last year. When she crawls into the abandoned Scruggs Store and th......more

Alternative title should have been "my toddler, and maybe there's a mystery" Writing is good, very natural, but couldn't finish the book after the first 5 chapters. Book is supposed to be a mystery, but far too much time is spent on the tiny details of toddler behavior. A few details are cute and fun......more

I'm always afraid to try Amazon freebies, but this one caught my attention because it involved cross stitch. I ended up being pleasantly surprised. Paisley Sutton operates a salvage business. She'd been granted permission by owners George and Berlinda to salvage what she could from an old country st......more

The mixture of mystery and history plus the protagonist's unique career made for interesting reading.......more

What began as a compelling story quickly went down hill with the author's woke-ism. Unnecessary. That pulled me right out of the story. Personal beliefs need not be in this book and appears to be pandering. Also I cannot find anything endearing about an unbelievable 2 year old. Unbelievable is not a......more