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Lighthouse Threads, The new Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery, is out! An old, dilapidated, stone lighthouse and an old manor house built before the Revolutionary War, set in spectacular forests and hills above the deep-blue waters of Lake Ontario, is the destination of Virginia Davies Clark and her friend Natalie North. They envision a relaxing quilt retreat and some fun. After reading about the lighthouse and Inn’s history involving stolen treasure of gold coins from the 1920s near the lighthouse, Virginia, a born snoop, starts to delve into its history. The other guests at the Inn are a mixed bag of amateur treasure hunters and quilters. But when the unexpected dead body of a local historian and amateur archaeologist, James St. Claire turns up, things go from bad to worse for Virginia and Natalie. They use their detecting skills to sift through facts, locate a quilt that has some lost clues…

Read the newest Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery on October 11, 2022. Once again Virginia Davies Clark finds herself in an action packed, whirlwind mystery adventure involving a Vatican treasure lost for generations, international criminals, suspicious ghosts, and people trying to kill her. Virginia’s friend, Dr. Gail Knight, a retired professor of computer science at the University of California at Irvine where Virginia was a student, purchased an old ranch called the Circle A near Georgetown, Texas and is renovating it to live there. Dr. Knight bought the ranch from a relative of First Lieutenant Robert Cumo of the U.S. 3 rd Infantry Division, a veteran of the battle for Rome during World War II. The relative lived there since Lt. Cumo died and sold it due financial problems and issues with the ghosts.  Virginia visits her friend at her ranch where Gail gives Virginia a unique quilt dating from the late 1940s…