Sarah buys five tatty quilts at an estate sale at the Haber farm before a couple shows up and demands that the sale stop as they have a claim on some sort of family keepsake or heirloom or something. Clues surface as Sarah solves the riddle of the quilt and answers a decades old riddle.

Then a couple arrive and shut down the sale, insisting that they are the heirs to the old farm and that there is a family treasure that they must find. Four of them are in poor condition but one intrigues her with each square containing a different pattern. A box of 5 old quilts catches Sarah's eye. This story begins at an estate sale she attends with her daughter-in-law, Maggie, who owns a fledgling antique shop. She lives in Maple Hill, a small town in New England, where her passion and avocation is identifying and repairing antique quilts. Sarah, a 60 year-old grandmother, is the protagonist of the series. These are written by different people but the stories fit together seamlessly. This one takes place at Thanksgiving, the one before earlier in autumn and the next one is a Christmas story. And the books, if read in sequence, follow each other in order of life. What is always a surprise is how an old quilt plays into the story- or actually, it's always directly involved with the mystery. In this story you know that from the beginning, even though clues along the way build that conclusion up. The mystery is good and the solution satisfying- but you always know that it's going to happen and most of the time you know who the 'bad guys' are. This series is wonderful- the cozy mysteries, with just a touch of religion, is perfect for a great read.

The only reason that I didn't give it that is because it just seems to be too much of a simple cozy mystery for that and the 5 stars that I give usually denote a complicated story with red herrings and a solution that you don't see coming.

Timeless Treasures by Cara C. Putman