Twisted Threads by Lea Wait
This is the first book in a series set in a coastal town in Maine. This is a small town cozy mystery, set around a small needlework business called Mainely Needlepoint. The main character, Angie, left the town of Haven Harbor years ago after high school. Now her grandmother Charlotte has let her know that her mother's body has been found. Angie's mother Jenny disappeared one day, shortly before Angie turned ten. A search was done and an investigation, but the case went cold. Jenny was a woman who dated a lot of men, and not everyone in town thought well of her. Charlotte raised Angie after that, but Angie knew what they said about her mother, and how they wondered as she grew up whether she would be as flirtatious. That's partly why she left.
Angie has been in Arizona, working for a private detective. She was good at both the office work, and the research. So when Charlotte tells her that she has a problem with the small needlework business she started, Angie offers to help find the man who owes her and her workers money. We get to know the other stitchers that Charlotte hired to do the work, many of them in dire need of the money they are owed.
As the police continue their investigation into how Jenny's body got to the place it was found, Angie continues her search. But when the man she's been looking for dies, Charlotte and Angie are some of the suspects in that death. Angie decides to continue her detective work, this time to find the killer.
I liked the main character, and the other characters are starting to take shape. I expect that will continue as the series moves forward.
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