Lea Wait

aka Cornelia Kidd  (see below)

Click here for a post I’ve written about Lea Wait’s Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series.

Lea Wait writes the very popular Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series which features Angie Curtis, the organizer of a needlepoint co-op in Maine. She also writes the Shadows Antique Print Mystery Series which features Maggie Summer, a widow who owns Shadows Antiques which is also in Maine. Wait not only writes mystery series for adults, but she also writes historical novels for children. As if that isn’t enough, as Cornelia Kidd she writes the Maine Murder Mystery Series. This series stars Anna Winslow as its sleuth, a wife on Quarry Island, Maine. 

MAINELY NEEDLEPOINT MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Angie Curtis, Organizer of Needlepoint Co-op, Haven Harbor, Maine

1. Twisted Threads    ’15
2. Threads of Evidence    ’15
3. Thread and Gone    ’15
4. Dangling by a Thread    ’16
5. Tightening the Threads    ’17
6. Thread the Halls    ’17
7. Thread Herrings    ’18
8. Thread on Arrival    ’19
9. Thread and Buried ’20

SHADOWS ANTIQUE PRINT MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Maggie Summer, widow, owner of Shadows Antiques, Maine

1. Shadows at the Fair    ’02
2. Shadows on the Coast of Maine    ’03
3. Shadows on the Ivy    ’04
4. Shadows at the Spring Show    ’05
5. Shadows of a Down East Summer   ’11
6. Shadows on a Cape Cod Wedding    ’13
7. Shadows on a Maine Christmas    ’14
8. Shadows on a Morning in Maine    ’16

POST CIVIL-WAR MYSTERY:

1. Justice & Mercy    ’19

As Cornelia Kidd:

MAINE MURDER MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Anna Winslow, wife on Quarry Island, Maine

1. Death and  Pot of Chowder    ’18