Crafting for Sinners

A Novel

By: Jenny Kiefer

Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

A queer woman must fight her way out of a craft store run by a megachurch in this gripping survival horror novel by Jenny Kiefer, author of This Wretched Valley.

The ratcheting tension and gut-churning terror will appeal to fans of Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle and Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix.

Ruth is trapped. She’s stuck in her small, religious hometown of Kill Devil, Kentucky, stuck in the closet, and stuck living paycheck to paycheck. After her manager finds out that she lives with her girlfriend, Ruth is fired from her job at New Creations—a craft store owned by the church that dominates life in Kill Devil.

In an act of revenge, Ruth attempts to shoplift some yarn but is caught red-handed. Instead of calling the police, the employees lock her in the store—and attack her. As Ruth fights for her life using only the crafting supplies at hand, she plunges deeper into the tangled web of the New Creationists, who are hiding a terrible secret that threatens not only her but the entire town.

Urgent, scathing, and utterly original, Crafting for Sinners cements Kiefer’s status as a dazzling new star in horror.

©2025 Jenny Kiefer (P)2025 Audible, Inc.

hilarious and gory

The story is both totally believeable and ridiculously over the top. Loved the creative use of crafting supplies to create mayhem.

This is Hobby Lobby right?

A super fun survival horror book that makes fun of all the right things for me. I truly enjoyed this adventure and I hope everyone else reads this enjoys it as well

Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it

Story was a bit predictable, and I didn’t enjoy the narrator’s voice and cadence. Didn’t like the direction the story took with the cult. It needs a rat trigger warning 🤮

Love conquers all

I was on my toes the whole ride, loved the story. This could literally be a movie and I’d watch to the end.

Unique story line

I loved the final girl who is a type 1 diabetic, I am guessing the author has T1D in her life or she would not know the added stress of a horror situation that this disease would bring. A great read!!