Bruce Leonard
Hello,
When I was the arts-and-entertainment reporter for the Paducah Sun, I wrote about numerous quilters. Paducah, Kentucky is the Quilting Capital of the World, home to the incomparable National Quilt Museum.
My job at the newspaper didn't work out, which proved to be an incredible break for me, because had I continued to write daily newspaper stories I wouldn't have written Quilt City Murders, my debut novel, which takes place in Paducah.
The title for the novel popped into my head, and I knew I had to write the novel, not only for me but for potential readers who enjoy intriguing mysteries set in small towns. The plot involves quilting and fabric, but readers certainly don't have to be quilters or even have an appreciation for quilting to be intrigued and entertained by the novel.
Quilt City Murders is technically a cozy mystery — the violence takes place off of the pages — but narrator Hadley Carroll is not a typical, play-it-safe narrator. She expresses her opinions, however controversial, and frequently in humorous ways, so I consider Quilt City Murders to be a cozy mystery with an edge.
Hadley, a journalist, quilter, and quick-witted survivor, discovers under a dock in the Ohio River the body of the man who until the week before had been her fiancé. In order for her not to be completely broken by the twin traumas of Matt dumping her, then finding his murdered body, Hadley taps into the strength forged by her troubled childhood, then uses her excellent investigative skills while trying to figure out why Matt left her, why he was killed, and who is killing quilters as QuiltWeek Paducah, the world's largest, most prestigious quilting event, arrives with its 30,000 fabric connoisseurs.
When I was the arts-and-entertainment reporter for the Paducah Sun, I wrote about numerous quilters. Paducah, Kentucky is the Quilting Capital of the World, home to the incomparable National Quilt Museum.
My job at the newspaper didn't work out, which proved to be an incredible break for me, because had I continued to write daily newspaper stories I wouldn't have written Quilt City Murders, my debut novel, which takes place in Paducah.
The title for the novel popped into my head, and I knew I had to write the novel, not only for me but for potential readers who enjoy intriguing mysteries set in small towns. The plot involves quilting and fabric, but readers certainly don't have to be quilters or even have an appreciation for quilting to be intrigued and entertained by the novel.
Quilt City Murders is technically a cozy mystery — the violence takes place off of the pages — but narrator Hadley Carroll is not a typical, play-it-safe narrator. She expresses her opinions, however controversial, and frequently in humorous ways, so I consider Quilt City Murders to be a cozy mystery with an edge.
Hadley, a journalist, quilter, and quick-witted survivor, discovers under a dock in the Ohio River the body of the man who until the week before had been her fiancé. In order for her not to be completely broken by the twin traumas of Matt dumping her, then finding his murdered body, Hadley taps into the strength forged by her troubled childhood, then uses her excellent investigative skills while trying to figure out why Matt left her, why he was killed, and who is killing quilters as QuiltWeek Paducah, the world's largest, most prestigious quilting event, arrives with its 30,000 fabric connoisseurs.
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