Elizabeth Spann Craig

Biography

Elizabeth writes the Southern Quilting mysteries and Memphis Barbeque mysteries for Penguin Random House and the Myrtle Clover series for Midnight Ink and independently. She blogs at ElizabethSpannCraig.com/blog , named by Writer’s Digest as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers. She curates links on Twitter as @elizabethscraig that are later shared in the free search engine WritersKB.com. Elizabeth makes her home in Matthews, North Carolina, with her husband and two teenage children.

Elizabeth Spann Craig (Riley Adams)
Twitter: @elizabethscraig

Where to buy in print

Books

Fit To Be Tied
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 58,400. Language: English. Published: August 5, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
A retired art curator investigates after her husband discovers a murder.
Cooking is Murder
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 57,320. Language: English. Published: May 15, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
When a body is found in a cooking class, an octogenarian sleuth and her senior sidekick investigate.
Fall to Pieces
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 55,090. Language: English. Published: January 22, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
When murder occurs at a quilting event, a retired art museum curator investigates.
Patch of Trouble
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 69,010. Language: English. Published: January 22, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
When murder occurs in tiny Dappled Hills, NC, a retired art museum curator investigates the murder...and the cold case it may be connected with.
Cruising for Murder
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 53,560. Language: English. Published: January 22, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
When murder occurs on the high seas, an octogenarian sleuth and her senior sidekick investigate.
Murder on Opening Night
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 63,160. Language: English. Published: January 22, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
When a murder occurs at a play's opening night, an octogenarian sleuth and her senior sidekick investigate.
A Body at Bunco (A Myrtle Clover Cozy Mystery)
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 71,020. Language: English. Published: April 2, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
When octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover hosts Bunco, she faces a killer playing hard to get.
Death Pays a Visit
Price: Free! Words: 65,070. Language: English. Published: September 9, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
An octogenarian discovers a suspicious death at a retirement home and uses her wits to find the killer, against the wishes of her police chief son.
A Body at Book Club
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 49,000. Language: English. Published: March 31, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
A boring book club meeting becomes more exciting than expected when Myrtle Clover discovers a body on the hostess’s living room floor.
Death at a Drop-In
Series: A Myrtle Clover Mystery, Book 4. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 58,710. Language: English. Published: August 12, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
When a small town's society matron is murdered at her own party, an octogenarian is curious...and then investigates.
A Dyeing Shame
Series: A Myrtle Clover Mystery, Book 2. Price: Free! Words: 53,180. Language: English. Published: October 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
When Beauty Box beautician Tammy Smith is discovered with a pair of hair shears in her back, there are suspects and secrets aplenty in her small Southern town. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover is intrigued by the crime...and her neighbors' secrets. But discovering, and blabbing, secrets got Tammy killed and Myrtle soon learns her sleuthing isn't just dangerous...it's deadly.
A Body in the Backyard
Series: A Myrtle Clover Mystery, Book 3. Price: Free! Words: 58,960. Language: English. Published: October 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
When octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover discovers a body in her backyard, she vows to find the murderer...before she's pushing up daisies, herself.
Progressive Dinner Deadly
Series: A Myrtle Clover Mystery, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 56,680. Language: English. Published: December 10, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
(4.00 from 1 review)
Octogenarian Myrtle Clover is fit to be tied when her book club votes to change to a supper club. Who wants chips and dip when they can have Dickens and Twain? But when a body is discovered during the first supper club dinner, the evening quickly gets interesting. Myrtle pits her sleuthing skills against her police chief son's to find the killer....if the killer doesn't find her first.