Annie's Attic Mysteries
Series · 28
books · 2010-2013
Books in series
#1
The Lady in the Attic
2010
Upon the death of her beloved grandmother, Annie Dawson travels to Stony Point, Maine to tie up affairs and decide the fate of the family home, Grey Gables. In the attic, she comes across an unusual cross stitch featuring a young woman seated on a porch swing of the grand old house. Who is the woman? It isn’t her grandmother. Annie is intrigued and determined to discover her identity. Others, however, don’t like her nosing around their town. As small incidents begin to happen, Annie wonders, is she in danger? With the help of her new friends in the Hook and Needle Club, a local needlecraft group, Annie sets out to discover clues about the Lady in the Attic. But what will it cost Annie as she grows closer to the truth?
#2
Medals In The Attic
2010
From anniesmysteries.com: "Every visit to the spacious attic of Grey Gables is a new adventure of discovery … as is the case one rainy afternoon when Annie and Boots (Gram’s irascible cat) once again start exploring the treasures hidden in dusty boxes and trunks. This time—at the bottom of a box in the corner—Annie finds a pair of service medals from World War II in perfect condition inside a beautiful hand-carved wooden case with a glass top.
This is very curious because her grandfather’s medals are on display in the living room downstairs … so who could these spectacular medals belong to? And why have they been hidden away in the attic for years?"
#3
The Photo Album
2010
Part of the Annie's Attic Mystery series by Marlene Chase.The Hook and Needle Club of Stony Creek,Maine hunt for the identity of puzzling photographs found in the attic of a old home left to widow Annie Dawson, the owner of A STITCH in TIME, by her late grandmother.
#4
Letters in the Attic
2010
Up in her grandmother’s attic in Stony Point, Maine, Annie Dawson finds a stack of old letters from her childhood friend Susan Morris. Annie remembers Susan fondly and would like to get back in touch, but nobody seems to know what’s become of her. Her friends at The Hook and Needle Club aren’t much help either. All they remember is that Susan left town more than twenty years ago to marry a very wealthy man, but none of them is quite sure who he was. And Annie can find no record of any marriage.
The more Annie searches, the more she begins to wonder if something has happened to Susan. Something bad.
#5
The Package
2010
"When Annie Dawson and her trusted handyman, Wally Carson, stumble upon a mysterious package that had slipped behind an old dresser in the attic of Grey Gables, they are unwittingly swept into a mystery of intrigue, masked identities and personal danger. Now, with the package in hand, Annie sets out to find the rightful owner, a quest that reveals some long-held secrets in Stony Point—secrets that trigger greed and violence."
#6
The Map In The Attic
2010
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#7
Rag Doll In The Attic
2011
Annie Dawson's recurring nightmare of a young girl in mortal danger haunts her, as does the mystery of the rag doll she finds in the attic of her home, Grey Gables, in Stony Point, Maine. Annie is driven to understand her dreams, calling to her from the echoes of time. Who is the young girl, and how is she tied to Grey Gables, first her grandmother's home and now her own? You will be shocked to find the answers to the mystery of the rag doll in the attic, and the key to Annie's nightmarish journeys.
#8
Boxed in
2011
Think outside of the box- that's what Annie Dawson must do when she discovers a mysterious birchbark box in the attic of Grey Gables, the home bequeathed to her by her grandmother, Betsy Holden. The old box, exquisitely carved by an American Indian artist, contains a beaded ceremonial regalia collar and an obscure verse:
"Sister Otter, water dancing
Sun splashes over circles you draw.
If love took you to desert dry,
Where would you dance?"
Annie knows of no American Indian connection to her family in the region around Stony Point, the quaint New England fishing village on Maine's rugged coastline where the mystery unfolds. But this very personal glimpse into Passamaquoddy life is somehow threaded through Annie's family history. She is driven to find the connection.
#9
The Deed in the Attic
2011
Annie Dawson discovers a deed that has been locked away for years in a trunk in the attic of Grey Gables. The discovery launches a series of adventures that reveal how and why her grandmother came to own the old estate and what happened to the original owners.
#10
Emeralds in the Attic
2011
When Annie Dawson finds a necklace, earrings and a matching hair comb in the attic of Grey Gables, she doesn't realize the chain of events waiting to be unleashed. Why are so many people—from the ocean scientists studying Stony Point's fishing industry to a rich, young philanthropist to Annie's best friend's ex-husband—so fascinated by the jewelry. It all seems innocent at first, but then someone snatches the decorative faux-emerald comb from Annie's hair during a brief blackout at a masquerade ball. Is someone masquerading as a thief—or worse?
#11
The Wedding Dress
2011
Annie Dawson's attic in Grey Gables has divested itself of many treasures since she inherited the home in Stony Point, Maine, from her grandmother. But none has been as romantic and mysterious as the beautiful wedding dress with a handcrafted veil and a pair of formal gloves that she finds gracing an old mannequin concealed beneath a sheet. The mystery of the dress intertwines with the approaching marriage of Tony Palmer, son of Annie's Hook and Needle Club friend Gwen Palmer. Join Annie and her friends as they join forces to connect all of the clues and solve the mystery of the wedding dress in the attic.
#12
The Valise In The Attic
2011
A seemingly innocent antique valise turns into the centerpiece of a sinister plot when a film crew makes Stony Point the location for a made-for-TV movie A Very Maine Christmas. Annie Dawson, her best friend Alice MacFarland and their friends from the Hook and Needle Club agree to appear as movie extras, but the festive backdrop evaporates when Annie is assaulted and Alice is kidnapped. Everything hinges on the small suitcase found in Annie's attic and used as a movie prop. Annie knows that kidnapper is determined to get the case—but why?
#13
The Unfinished Sonata
2011
While cleaning in the library of Grey Gables, Annie Dawson comes across a music box, left to her as the crowning piece of a collection her grandmother had assembled. Beautifully carved, it is the only box in the collection that won't play. Where did her grandmother get the box, and why had it never been repaired? These questions will haunt Annie and will lead her down one of the most painful—and yet one of the most romantic—journeys she has taken during the time she has spent sorting out the mysteries hidden within the walls of Grey Gables.
#14
The Stolen Canvas
2012
Annie Dawson's grandmother, Betsy Holden, hgad taken her share of strays into her old Victorian home, Grey Gables. Orphaned kittens and puppies—and her share of weary and worn people as well—had been welcomed to share the warmth of her hearth.
But now Annie, heir to the HOlden estate, is face-to-face with Tara Frasier, an orphaned young woman searching for an emotional connection to her dead mother. Annie knew Gram would embrace this stranger, but could there be some sinister reason behind her sudden mysterious appearance?
Tara's past is checkered at best. her mother had known Betsy as a child, and Annie's Gram had befriended her up to the time of her death. It seemed logical for Tara to search out Grey Gables and its present owner. Didn't it?
Annie's Hook and Needle Club friends are suspicious initially, but Tara wins them over with her innocent and shy demeanor. When Annie helps her get a job at a local animal shelter, Tara even salves the callous nature of its owner, Carla Calloway.
But is Tara's story stacked on a house of cards? Is there a connection between her and Wally Carson's long-lost brother, Jem, who also has suddenly returned to Stony Point, Maine? And why is Carla haunted by Tara's appearance? Ian Butler, the mayor of Stony Point, fears for Annie's safety and worries that her generosity and charitable nature will place her squarely in harm's way.
Join Annie, Ian, Annie's best friend, Alice MacFarlane, and all of the members of the HOok and Needle Club as they tackle this latest mystery to beset Grey Gables.
#15
A Man of His Word
2012
For Annie Dawson, the discovery of an old Bible in the attic of her home is a link to family she really never knew. But the Bible of William Holden—the uncle of Annie's grandfather Charles Holden and a Superior Court judge—harbors a dark secret, clues that lead Annie and her Hook and Needle Club friends back to a horrible crime. They also call into question Judge Holden's actions on the bench. What guilt did he apparently carry with him to the grave? Is there a way to reconcile the matter decades later? Or will the quest drive a permanent wedge between Annie and her family?
#16
The Key In The Attic
2012
A Stitch in Time, owned by Mary Beth Brock and the home of the Hook and Needle Club, is in trouble! It is threatened by "progress" in the form of a fast-food restaurant planned for the middle of the quaint downtown landscape in Stony Point, Maine.
Mary Beth's problems seem to have a solution when Annie Dawson finds a key in a broken vase in the attic of Grey Gables, the Victorian home Annie inherited from her grandmother, Betsy Holden. The key, linked to an antique table and a beautiful mantle clock, leads Annie to clues that send her and her Hook and Needle Club friends on an adventure that takes them back to the Civil War and an ill-fated love between Mary Beth's great-great-grandmother and a young soldier.
When the owner of an antique store shows up with an insistent desire to purchase Mary Beth's the clock—and when her home is then burgled—Annie and her best friend, Alice MacFarlane, begin to suspect that their mystery may be tied into more than a coded love letter from the 1860s.
#17
Road Trip!
2012
The members of the Hook and Needle Club have made many exciting and adventurous road trips together through the years, but the opportunity to travel to Texas for a needlecraft convention is more than Annie Dawson and her friends can pass up.
For Annie, the trip not only takes her back to her old stomping grounds in the Lone Star State, she also will take part of her grandmother, Betsy Holden, with her back to Texas. Betsy is being honored at the convention for her groundbreaking work as a needlecrafter.
Everything is going swimmingly until a death in Betsy's exhibit throws a pall on the road trip, and doubly so when Annie and her friends end up on the short list of suspects. Annie is drawn into the unseemly incident, and she lends her considerable talent of solving riddles to the handsome police detective assigned to the case.
Will the unlikely sleuths help nab a killer, or will they end up caught in the middle with no way to get out? Join Annie, Mary Beth, Kate and Stella as they deal with death in Texas on this adventurous road trip!
#18
The Tapestry In The Attic
2012
Annie Dawson was just a child when she first noticed the small tapestry hanging on a wall in Grey Gables, the Victorian home bequeathed to her by her grandmother, Betsy Holden.
But when Annie and the members of the Hook and Needle Club search for props for a play to be held in Stony Point's Cultural Center,they discover a secret hidden for more than 45 years in the old home's attic. There is a sister tapestry—this one a wall-size work by the same needle artist based on the ideal woman as described in Proverbs 31 in the Bible.
What artistic hand stitched the tapestries of Grey Gables? The mystery deepens as Annie and her friends discover that the larger tapestry, like the Proverbs 31 woman, has a "price above rubies." Will the path to solving the mystery once again put Annie's life in jeopardy?
Annie and her friends are drawn into the production of the play because it will benefit a fund for breast cancer research, a matter most urgent since the very disease the Hook and Needle Club members are fighting strikes one of their own.
Join our mystery-solving band of handcrafters needlecrafters as they tackle another whodunit from the labyrinth of Annie's attic.
#19
Gunns & Roses
2012
Annie Dawson is hard to intimidate. She has stood up to thieves, con men and murderers in the three years since she came to live in Stony Point, Maine. But even she has to shudder when an eagle attacks her and her friends. It seems someone is intent on scaring her away from the solution to her latest mystery.
While looking for a basket in the attic of Grey Gables—the Victorian home she inherited from her maternal grandmother, Betsy Holden—Annie discovers a Scottish sporran containing several ferrules, the silver fittings of a set of bagpipes.
Annie takes her latest mystery to the Hook and Needle Club, the needlecraft group that has helped her many times in the past. The thread of the mystery leads Annie and several of her friends to the Highland Games, but the tight-knit clans the group finds close ranks when Annie and Ian Butler, the mayor of Stony Point, ask too many questions.
What is the mysterious link that puts everyone on edge? The answer is as mournful as the drone of the bagpipes. Join Annie and her Hook and Needle Club friends as they take the high road while someone else is taking the low road in this latest mystery from Annie's attic.
#20
The Legend of Fuller's Island
2012
Alice MacFarlane has once again let her adventurous spirit take her into harm's way, and it's up to Annie Dawson to find Alice and pull her out of the dangerous situation.
The mystery begins when Annie finds a book in her grandfather's collection in the attic of Grey Gables—the home after she inherited it after the death of her grandmother, Betsy Holden—that includes the story of a mysterious island in South Carolina wrapped up in an ancient curse.
When Alice's friend, Jim Parker—an author and photographer—makes a surprise visit to Stony Point, Annie suggests that Fuller's Island might make an interesting chapter in his latest book. Annie, Alice, and Jim all laugh off the book's assertion that the island is haunted by ghost dogs after the curse was placed on it by a witch in the nineteen19th century.
But it ceases to be fun and games when Alice and Jim go missing after visiting the island. Now it's up to Annie, Ian Butler—Stony Point's mayor—and the members of the Hook and Needle Club to save Alice when one of her carefree adventures once again goes awry.
#21
A Stony Point Christmas
2012
Annie Dawson has had many mysteries thrown at her since moving to Stony Point, Maine, but nothing has matched this one. A mysterious benefactor is leaving generous gifts for various Stony Point residents, each one accompanied by a handwritten note saying, "Early Merry Christmas, from Stony Point's Santa."
Annie would leave the philanthropist alone to do his or her good deeds, if it weren't for the fact that more and more people from the small seaside village suspects that Annie, the transplant from Texas, is the secret Santa. If it's not Annie, who is it?
Could it be one of the members of the Hook and Needle Club, the handcrafting group Annie belongs to and who have helped her again and again solve the mysteries that fate tosses her way? Or maybe Ian Butler, Stony Point's mayor who would also like to be Annie Dawson's suitor, is Stony Point's Santa.
All of the clues seemingly lead nowhere as Annie tries to prove she is not the source of the lavish gifts. And then a surprise gift is left within the walls of Grey Gables—a gift that will leave Annie speechless. Join Annie and her friends as they tackle this latest mystery in A Stony Point Christmas.
#22
A Spicy Secret
2012
Alice MacFarlane is known far and wide for her baking skills, but her mojo has suddenly gone missing. It all started with the discovery of a jarful of recipes beneath the floor of the carriage house that she calls home. Alice, ever the adventurer, decides to give the recipes a try.
The results have been mixed at best. The first dish was downright repulsive, and now Gwendolyn Palmer, one of Alice's friends from the Hook and Needle Club, is in the ICU—and Alice can't help but believe that her latest dish from the mysterious recipes may be to blame.
Alice's home shares a scenic hillside vista with Grey Gables, the stately Victorian home owned by Annie Dawson, Alice's best friend. Annie—a transplant from Texas to Stony Point, Maine—inherited Grey Gables from her late grandmother, Elizabeth Holden.
Now Annie must help Alice find out where the recipes came from, and if there is some kind of dark secret associated with them.
At the same time, the Hook and Needle Club has taken on a gargantuan task—to provide handmade blankets for each resident of an orphanage in Haiti. The work must be completed in time for a mission trip led by Reverend Roy Wallace, pastor of the Stony Point Community Church. "Blanket Haiti" is one of the most ambitious projects undertaken by the club, known for its charitable works.
But the project is complicated by the illness of Gwen—and Alice's fear that she is somehow to blame. With the help of their Hook and Needle Club comrades, Alice and Annie set out to discover the truth behind the mysterious spicy secret.
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#23
The Cats and the Riddle
2012
Another mystery in the town of Stony Point, Maine that Annie and her friends solve.
#24
Jazzed
2013
An Annie's Attic Mysteries series hardcover. The discovery of a set of b/w photograph negatives has sent Annie Dawson searching for answers to why they were secreted away behind the portrait of her grandparents.
#25
Diary in the Attic
2013
Annie Dawson's discovery of a diary in the attic of Gray Gables has set her on a mission. The diary reveals a poignant love story from World War II, a story cut short when young Peter Lambert goes off to the European Theater, leaving his young girlfriend, Lilly Pryce, with a promise. He will come back to her. But that promise is shattered when Peter's mother receives notice from the War Department that Peter is missing and presumed dead while on a mission behind enemy lines.
But Annie wants to know more. Did Lilly find love after the loss of Peter? Where is she now? How did her diary, love letters and photographs end up in Annie's grandmother's attic? And, most important of all, can love once lost become love found again?
#26
Angels in the Attic
2013
Angels in the Attic by Mary O'Donnell.
#28
The Kennel Caper
2013
Join Annie Dawson and the members of the Hook and Needle Club of Stony Point, Maine, as they track down mysteries connected with the contents found in the attic of Annie's ancestral home, Grey Gables. There will be danger, adventures, and heartwarming discoveries in the secrets Annie unearths - secrets about her own family as well as the citizens of this charming seacoast town in central Maine.
#29
The Legacy in the Attic
2013
The Last Will and Testament of Paul Maxwell Butler.
How could those simple words come to haunt Annie Dawson and her friends in Stony Point, Maine? But when Annie discovers a will from 1920 in the attic of her home,Grey Gables, the document sets up a series of mysterious twists and turns that threaten the livelihood and legacy of Ian Butler, the may or of the seacoast town and Annie's love interest.
According to the newly found will, Paul Butler had disinherited Ian's great-grandfather and left all of his estate to a May field grandson. The will was sewn into the lining of an old purse and had never been probated. Why? Had the Butler family purposefully hidden it to ensure their continued ownership of the lucrative lumber mill? And will Annie's discovery spoil the growing love between her and Ian?
Authors
Tara Randel
Author · 19 books
Tara Randel is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author. Family values, a bit of mystery and, of course, love and romance, are her favorite themes, because she believes love is the greatest gift of all. Visit Tara at www.tararandel.com. Like her on Facebook at Tara Randel Books. Sign up for her newsletter at www.tararandel.com/subscribe.
Sharon Dunn
Author · 36 books
After 26 years of marriage Sharon's beloved husband Michael passed away in 2014. Together they had a life filled with adventure, laughter and unconditional love. She considers herself blessed to have been loved that way. She now lives with three nearly grown children, a nervous border collie and two cats. Her love for mystery and suspense began in the fifth grade, when she found a whole set of Nancy Drew mysteries with pink covers in the school library. Sharon is the author of five humorous mysteries that were written for Christian readers. Her second book in her Ruby Taylor mystery series was voted book of the year by American Christian Fiction Writers. Sharon has a bachelor's degree in film production and a master's degree in history. She loves old movies like Double Indemnity and anything by Frank Capra or Alfred Hitchcock. She enjoys reading all kinds of books but is partial to the nonfiction of C. S. Lewis. She loves to hear from readers. You can contact her through her Web site.
Cathy Elliott
Author · 3 books
There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Author and speaker Cathy Elliott nourishes her night-owl habit by creating cozy mysteries and more on her trusty laptop in Anderson, California. Like the protagonist in her new mystery, Cathy is an avid quilter. Besides collecting (too much) cool fabric, she also enjoys hunting for antique treasures.
K.D. McCrite
Author · 13 books
Also writes as Sydney Hope Archer. K.D. McCrite was raised on a small dairy farm in the Ozarks. She has a degree in psychology from Drury University and has worked as a librarian and as a mental health caseworker. She currently resides in Arkansas.
D. Savannah George
Author · 1 books
D. Savannah George has been writing since she could hold a pen (or crayon, she can't remember which), and has published several short stories and a number of poems. She's always been an avid reader, and likes to say she plays well with words. She is a disabled #InvisibleIllnessWarrior and #ChronicIllnessAdvocate, fighting a number of debilitating, chronic conditions, which combined cause never-ending severe pain and severe fatigue. She lives with her husband, dog, two cats, and a turtle in Georgia.
DeAnna Julie Dodson
Author · 12 books
DeAnna Julie Dodson has always been an avid reader and a lover of storytelling, whether on the page, the screen or the stage. This, along with her keen interest in history and her Christian faith, shows in her tales of love, forgiveness and triumph over adversity. A fifth-generation Texan, she makes her home north of Dallas with four spoiled cats and, when not writing, spends her free time quilting, cross stitching and watching NHL hockey. Her first books, In Honor Bound, By Love Redeemed and To Grace Surrendered, are a trilogy of medieval romances and have just been redesigned and freshly edited for Kindle. She is also the author of the contemporary mystery, Letters in the Attic, and has recently signed on to write another Annie's Attic Mystery: The Key in the Attic, due out in 2012. Her newest books, yet to be released, are A Dinner of Herbs, a Civil War drama, and a 1930s English mystery, Rules of Murder. Civil as an Orange, her current work in progress, is the sequel to Rules of Murder. You can find out more about DeAnna and her books, including sample chapters, at her website: http://www.deannajuliedodson.com/
