Maria Hudgins

Spring fever, coupled with a full moon, arrives in tiny Park County, Tennessee, and induces the well-named madness in its residents and visitors alike. Sheriff Tony Abernathy and his small contingent of deputies must slog through the morass of stupidity and bad behavior. His wife Theo is overwhelmed with running her quilt shop, raising their children and listening in at "gossip central".

• The autumn weather may be cooling down tiny Park County, Tennessee but crime is heating up. Weevil Beasley, the county's loan shark, dies and the body count begins. Sheriff Tony Abernathy is soon up to the top of his bald head in murder and mayhem. Tony's wife, Theo, is in the thick of it. Not even the members of her quilting group are immune when she leads them on a thread-filled retreat. A killer follows. Soon, a celebrity murder throws the entire county into a frenzy.