The Quilt Before the Storm

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. Attempted murder, theft, drug rings, battered women, death threats, and more sordid affairs than she could count were the more exciting experiences from Arlene Sachitano's nearly thirty years in the high tech industry.Prior to writing her first novel, Chip and Die, Arlene wrote the story half of the popular Block of the Month quilting patterns "Seams Like Murder" and "Seams Like Halloween" for Storyquilts.com, Inc. The second title in the Harley Spring mystery series, The Widowmaker, was published in 2009. She has also written a scintillating proprietary tome on the subject of the electronics assembly. In the small town of Foggy Point WA, Harriet Truman finds new friends and unexpected adventure as she and the ladies of the Loose Threads quilting group weave the threads of mystery.