Patterns of Murder: The First Three Needlecraft Mysteries [With Needlework Patterns] (Needlecraft Mysteries (Berkley Paperback))
by Monica Ferris | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0425206696 Global Overview for this book
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A Betsy Devonshire needlecraft mystery volume - featuring the first three mysteries:
Crewel World
Framed in Lace
A Stitch in Time
A Betsy Devonshire needlecraft mystery volume - featuring the first three mysteries:
Crewel World
Framed in Lace
A Stitch in Time
I have read this lot before but want to read the complete series (as far as I've got it now) - I could vaguely remember the culprits but it was still an enjoyable read second time round!
"Crewel World" is the beginning of Betsy Devonshire's career as a needlecrafter and amateur sleuth: as a disorientated just-divorcee she comes for an extended visit with her beloved sister, only to find her murdered a few days later. She inherits the sister's needlecraft shop as well as friends and connections in town, and as she finds out later, also a considerable fortune. But she cannot accept the police's foregone conclusion that the crime was robbery for cash by some wild teenager, so while learning the beginnings of needlecrafts and the running of a small business and solidifying her new friendships, she stubbornly chases every link she can find around her sister - and discovers an uncanning ability for asking the right questions and making the right deductions... The outcome is VERY surprising!
In "Framed in Lace", Betsy gets drawn into investigating another case because one of her newfound friends is being accused of a double murder when the raising of a historical wreck brings with it a skeleton and a homecoming runaway husband is found shot in a nearby motel. Still new in town, Betsy extends and deepens her knowledge of the local people and customs, which in itself is interesting to follow. And like in the first book, the clue that leads to discovering the true murderer lies in a piece of needlework!
"A Stitch in Time" goes a few notches up from book one and two: the rediscovery of a long-forgotten tapestry tempts Betsy's talents of deduction into trying to decipher a possible message in its cryptic symbolics, a harmless enough hobby and yet, she suddenly meets with a series of unfortunate and potentially lethal accidents - one of which turns out to be poison! Is somebody after Betsy's newly inherited fortune, or trying to get rid of the town's newcome snoop? Or is there a more sinister secret to the tapestry she is researching? Again, Betsy makes the most amazing discoveries in finding the clues to an old crime in the redicovered tapestry.
"Crewel World" is the beginning of Betsy Devonshire's career as a needlecrafter and amateur sleuth: as a disorientated just-divorcee she comes for an extended visit with her beloved sister, only to find her murdered a few days later. She inherits the sister's needlecraft shop as well as friends and connections in town, and as she finds out later, also a considerable fortune. But she cannot accept the police's foregone conclusion that the crime was robbery for cash by some wild teenager, so while learning the beginnings of needlecrafts and the running of a small business and solidifying her new friendships, she stubbornly chases every link she can find around her sister - and discovers an uncanning ability for asking the right questions and making the right deductions... The outcome is VERY surprising!
In "Framed in Lace", Betsy gets drawn into investigating another case because one of her newfound friends is being accused of a double murder when the raising of a historical wreck brings with it a skeleton and a homecoming runaway husband is found shot in a nearby motel. Still new in town, Betsy extends and deepens her knowledge of the local people and customs, which in itself is interesting to follow. And like in the first book, the clue that leads to discovering the true murderer lies in a piece of needlework!
"A Stitch in Time" goes a few notches up from book one and two: the rediscovery of a long-forgotten tapestry tempts Betsy's talents of deduction into trying to decipher a possible message in its cryptic symbolics, a harmless enough hobby and yet, she suddenly meets with a series of unfortunate and potentially lethal accidents - one of which turns out to be poison! Is somebody after Betsy's newly inherited fortune, or trying to get rid of the town's newcome snoop? Or is there a more sinister secret to the tapestry she is researching? Again, Betsy makes the most amazing discoveries in finding the clues to an old crime in the redicovered tapestry.
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