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In the tight-knit community of Piney Hollow, the Partners in Grime cleaning service discovers a loose diamond, inadvertently plunging them into a scandal when salon owner Joanne Eisenhauer accuses them of theft to cover her own tracks. Amateur sleuth Maisie, a quilt shop owner, steps in to defend her friends and protect her independent Aunt Clara, who becomes a target of Joanne's manipulation after witnessing a suspicious confrontation. When an insurance adjuster is found dead, the stakes escalate from small-town gossip to a murder investigation. As Maisie meticulously pieced together a timeline of insurance fraud and staged thefts, she must expose the truth before reputations are permanently ruined and the killer strikes again. This cozy mystery blends the charm of quilting and local business with a tense investigation into greed and betrayal. Comparable works include Murder, She Wrote