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Barbara Emodi
Barbara Emodi has written sewing how-to books and now writes cozy mysteries set in Nova Scotia, Canada. Gasper’s Cove doesn’t really exist but it will seem awfully familiar to anyone who lives where she does. The community is based all she believes matters in life - extended family, companion animals, good food, and more sewing, crafting, quilting, and knitting projects than any reasonable person would take on.
Barbara writes what she likes to read - whimsical, witty, warm books that reflect her belief that there is nothing ordinary about ordinary people. She also likes clever surprises, important in mysteries, and promises one at the end of each book. To visit Gasper’s Cove yourself you can read Barbara’s novels in her Gasper’s Cove Mysteries series or her Gasper’s Cove Quick Cozies novella series.
Barbara Emodi has written sewing how-to books and now writes cozy mysteries set in Nova Scotia, Canada. Gasper’s Cove doesn’t really exist but it will seem awfully familiar to anyone who lives where she does. The community is based all she believes matters in life - extended family, companion animals, good food, and more sewing, crafting, quilting, and knitting projects than any reasonable person would take on.
Nobody warned you about this part. When you were younger, you figured it out as you went. You always did. But this stage — the post-retirement, post-children-at-home, post-being-the-most-relevant-person-in-the-room stage — turns out to require its own entirely separate manual. One that didn’t exist. Barbara Emodi writes about that. How to Be an...
Welcome to Gasper’s Cove, Nova Scotia—where beach clean‑ups turn up murder clues and the past won’t stay buried. When a message in a bottle dated 1962 surfaces near the abandoned lighthouse, shopkeeper and sewing teacher Valerie Rankin thinks it’s just small‑town gossip fodder—until a visiting lawyer falls to her death from the cliff and Valerie...
Heidi MacDonald is not qualified for her new job at the Legislature with Official Opposition.
She has never voted, or can’t remember when. Her research experience amounts to one letter published in a sewing magazine. She lives in her parents’ basement with a cat named Gilbert. Her direct supervisor considers her a useful fall guy, her chief of...
A federal deadline is bearing down on Gasper's Cove: restore the town's crumbling old lighthouse by year's end, or watch Ottawa replace it with a soulless LED tower. While the community argues it out on a storm-strewn beach, Stuart's daughter turns up something the tide was not supposed to give back, a message in a bottle dated 1962 that reads, "Being watched. Help not coming." The coordinates on it point to the exact spot where they are standing. Crafting a Deadline is the eighth book in the...
Craft shows can be dangerous. Valerie Rankin learns exactly how dangerous when the lights go out at the Thirteenth Annual Gasper's Cove Spring Craft Show and only a trolley piled with vintage quilts saves her from a nasty fall. Waiting on the other side of it is Louise Haggerty, a big-city "sustainable fashion" designer who has come to little Gasper's Cove hunting for local quilts and linens to upcycle, and who has her eye on Valerie's Crafters' Co-op. Never risk competition, she says, when...
It is February in Gasper's Cove, the tourists are long gone, and Valerie Rankin is finally about to cast on a pair of socks for herself when the text arrives: Emergency. Get here ASAP before I kill somebody. It is from level-headed Catherine, which is exactly how Valerie knows it is serious. Someone has moved into the Bluenose Inn and shows no sign of ever leaving. Crafting a Cold Case is the sixth book in the Gasper's Cove Mysteries, a warm, funny Canadian cozy series about small-town...
