Turning the Page
Nothing is forever, and it’s with mixed feelings that I’m wrapping up the Knit & Nibble series. Kensington, my publisher, has invited me to launch a new project. Like Knit & Nibble, it’s a craft cozy series, but the craft this time is quilting. Thus my amateur sleuth, Caroline Platte, is a quilter. She’s also a curator of decorative arts (including quilts) at a folk art museum in the charming, invented, town of Banburyport, Massachusetts.
I think of her as a quilt whisperer because her job involves teasing out the secrets in antique quilts as she studies their history and determines their authenticity. Naturally her observational skills and puzzle-solving abilities come in handy when murders shake the normally serene Banburyport community. Sometimes the clues to the killer’s identity can actually be found in quilt patterns!
The first book in the quilt-whisperer series is to be released in the fall of 2026. I’ve written about 100 pages of it so far, aiming for a deadline of October 1. It doesn’t have a title yet, but I’ll be updating my website with more information soon.
LAST WOOL AND TESTAMENT, which came out in April, was the final full-length book in the Knit & Nibble series. One more Knit & Nibble project is yet to be published, the novella AN EGGY WAY TO DIE. It will appear in March 2026 as part of EASTER EGG MURDER. All together there will have been twelve full-length Knit & Nibbles and five Knit & Nibble novellas.
Readers who have worked their way through the Knit & Nibble series know that a romantic subplot has been percolating ever since Pamela Paterson’s attractive new neighbor, Richard Larkin, introduced himself in MURDER, SHE KNIT. Will Pamela, widowed long before the series began, finally allow herself to love again?
Throughout the life of the series, I’ve tried to make the novellas independent of the full-length books, in the sense of not including major subplot developments that would confuse people who hadn’t read the full-length books. In this case, though, I’ve had to make an exception. Because AN EGGY WAY TO DIE will be the very last appearance of Pamela, Richard, and all the other Knit & Nibblers, I added an epilogue that ties up things that needed to be tied up.
I’ll miss the Knit & Nibble characters, who I’ve come to think of as my imaginary friends—though they are in some ways more real than the flesh-and-blood people around me. As I work on the first quilt whisperer book, I’m getting to know a new cast of characters and I hope they will turn into people that my readers enjoy knowing as well.
I think of her as a quilt whisperer because her job involves teasing out the secrets in antique quilts as she studies their history and determines their authenticity. Naturally her observational skills and puzzle-solving abilities come in handy when murders shake the normally serene Banburyport community. Sometimes the clues to the killer’s identity can actually be found in quilt patterns!
The first book in the quilt-whisperer series is to be released in the fall of 2026. I’ve written about 100 pages of it so far, aiming for a deadline of October 1. It doesn’t have a title yet, but I’ll be updating my website with more information soon.
LAST WOOL AND TESTAMENT, which came out in April, was the final full-length book in the Knit & Nibble series. One more Knit & Nibble project is yet to be published, the novella AN EGGY WAY TO DIE. It will appear in March 2026 as part of EASTER EGG MURDER. All together there will have been twelve full-length Knit & Nibbles and five Knit & Nibble novellas.
Readers who have worked their way through the Knit & Nibble series know that a romantic subplot has been percolating ever since Pamela Paterson’s attractive new neighbor, Richard Larkin, introduced himself in MURDER, SHE KNIT. Will Pamela, widowed long before the series began, finally allow herself to love again?
Throughout the life of the series, I’ve tried to make the novellas independent of the full-length books, in the sense of not including major subplot developments that would confuse people who hadn’t read the full-length books. In this case, though, I’ve had to make an exception. Because AN EGGY WAY TO DIE will be the very last appearance of Pamela, Richard, and all the other Knit & Nibblers, I added an epilogue that ties up things that needed to be tied up.
I’ll miss the Knit & Nibble characters, who I’ve come to think of as my imaginary friends—though they are in some ways more real than the flesh-and-blood people around me. As I work on the first quilt whisperer book, I’m getting to know a new cast of characters and I hope they will turn into people that my readers enjoy knowing as well.
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Linda Langford
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Jun 17, 2025 11:57AM
Congratulations! Sounds interesting—I’ve always enjoyed quilting cozies.
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I enjoy the Knit & Nibblers series very much, so I am sorry that it is coming to an end. I'm a knitter, not a quilter, but I will pick up the new series when it starts.
