Lois Winston

aka Emma Carlyle

Lois Winston is an award-winning author of romantic suspense and humorous women's fiction. She worked for several years as a crafts editor, and is also an award-winning designer of needlework and crafts projects.

Genres: Cozy Mystery

New and upcoming books

February 2025

Seams Like the Perfect Crime
(Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, book 14)

Series

Gertie
Talk Gertie to Me (2006)
Elementary, My Dear Gertie (2012)

Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery
   1. Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun (2011)
   2. Death by Killer Mop Doll (2012)
   3. Revenge of the Crafty Corpse (2013)
   Crewel Intentions (2013)
   4. Decoupage Can Be Deadly (2013)
   Mosaic Mayhem (2013)
   Patchwork Peril (2014)
   Crafty Crimes (2014)
   5. A Stitch to Die For (2015)
   6. Scrapbook of Murder (2017)
   7. Drop Dead Ornaments (2018)
   8. Handmade Ho-Ho Homicide (2019)
   9. A Sew Deadly Cruise (2020)
   10. Stitch, Bake, Die! (2021)
   11. Guilty as Framed (2022)
   12. A Crafty Collage of Crime (2023)
   13. Sorry, Knot Sorry (2024)
   14. Seams Like the Perfect Crime (2025)

Empty Nest Mystery
1. Definitely Dead (2014)
2. Literally Dead (2016)

Mom Squad Caper
Moms in Black (2021)

Novels

   Love, Lies and a Double Shot of Deception (2007)
   Finding Hope (2013) (as by Emma Carlyle)
   Four Uncles and a Wedding (2013) (as by Emma Carlyle)
   Hooking Mr. Right (2013) (as by Emma Carlyle)
   Lost in Manhattan (2013) (as by Emma Carlyle)
   Someone To Watch Over Me (2013) (as by Emma Carlyle)

Collections

Once Upon a Romance (2013)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Magic Paintbrush (2014)
Finding Mr. Right (2015)

Series contributed to

Happy Homicides

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

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