Welcome to Briar Creek, Ohio, where old letters, family keepsakes, auction records, and ordinary pieces of paper have a troublesome habit of revealing what people meant to keep hidden.
The Plain Truth Mysteries follow Nora Bell, the widowed owner of The Bell & Quill letterpress shop, and Eli Yoder, an Amish auction clerk who understands the town’s family histories almost as well as he understands its silences.
Together, they uncover gentle, non-graphic mysteries rooted in rural Ohio, community memory, forgotten women, disputed inheritances, and truths preserved in the objects people leave behind.
Quiet towns keep the longest secrets.
Some mysteries begin with noise.
This one begins with thread.
In The Secret in the Sampler, an old handmade piece carries more than family memory. One missing name, one quiet omission, and one woman willing to ask the wrong question bring a buried truth back into the light.
For readers who like gentle cozy mysteries, rural Ohio settings, old secrets, and clues hidden in plain sight.
Also available in Kindle Unlimited.
Start the Plain Truth Mysteries with The Secret in the Sampler.
