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Quilts, quiet, and delicious food. That's exactly what Bernie and Libby expect as they build the menu for the Longely Sip and Sew Quilting Circle's first-ever exhibition hosted at the local library. The eclectic ladies of the group couldn't appear more harmlessly wholesome if they tried, especially mild-mannered kindergarten teacher Cecilia Larson, who hired A Little of Taste of Heaven to cater the event. So it's a complete shock when disturbing news drops about member Ellen Fisher, found hanging from a plant hook in her otherwise pristine sewing room . . .
All are very quick to deem the tragic death a suicide. All except for Cecilia. She believes something else happened to her best friend—who was busy adding the finishing stitches on her greatest work yet in hopes of displaying it at the exhibition—and looks to Bernie and Libby to expose the truth . . . and the killer. As Ellen's patchy past comes into focus along with a mysterious connection to a missing seven-hundred-year-old quilt fragment, can the sisters unravel the victim's final thread before another turns up dead?
Includes Original Recipes for You to Try!
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- ISBN: 9781496735003
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- ISBN: 9781496735003
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December 1, 2023
A group of quilters are the latest pool of unlikely candidates to murder or be murdered. Bernie and Libby Simmons, sisters who own a bake shop and have a formidable reputation as amateur sleuths, meet Cecelia Larson at the local library to discuss catering a reception for the Longely Sip and Sew Quilting Society, whose members know a lot about modern and ancient quilts, some of them very valuable. The meeting ends when one of the quilters dashes in and announces that member Ellen Fisher has apparently died by suicide. Several weeks later, Cecelia and the quilters hire the sisters to investigate what they've come to believe is Ellen's murder. Although the police chief understandably hates them, the sisters have friends in the department who listen when they explain that Ellen had been in a great mood ever since having one of her quilts featured in a national magazine and was unlikely to have killed herself, despite going through some rough times. Doing a deep dive into Ellen's history turns up the fact that she didn't seem to have a history. Was she a criminal on the run or a member of the Witness Protection Program? Her house has been torn apart by someone searching for a small item, she'd been packing for a trip to Mexico, and she'd kept a loaded gun in her nightstand. The realization that they're being followed lends more credence to the sisters' murder theory. Maybe they can find Ellen's killer--if only they can discover who she really was. Scads of suspects, a paucity of motives, and a bombshell reveal make for exciting reading.COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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