


Books in series

Pleating for Mercy
2011

A Fitting End
2012

Deadly Patterns
2012

A Custom-Fit Crime
2013

A Killing Notion
2014

A Seamless Murder
2015

Bobbin for Answers
2023
Author

Melissa Bourbon is the national bestselling author of more than thirty mystery books, including the Pippin Lane Hawthorne Book Magic mysteries, the Harlow Cassidy Magical Dressmaking Mystery series, the Lola Cruz Mysteries, and the Bread Shop Mysteries, written as Winnie Archer. A former secondary English/Language Arts teacher and Creative Writing teacher with Southern Methodist University’s CAPE program and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institution with North Carolina State University, she has applied her love of teaching to the creation of WriterSpark Academy, an online school for aspiring and new writers seeking to hone their craft. Learn more about Melissa at her website, www.melissabourbon.com, on Facebook @MelissaBourbon/Winnie ArcherBooks, and on Instagram @bookishly_cozy, and learn about about WriterSpark at www.writersparkacademy.com.