Search - Framed in Lace (Needlecraft Mystery Series, #2 )

WOW! This book had been sitting on my shelf for a moment of desperation. The idea of a book that included a free cross stitch pattern seemed a little hokey.
But when I got to the desperation point, I couldn't believe it. What a great book! I quickly felt I knew the characters, there was some detail without the details bogging you down, and I thought I had the mystery solved on several occasions.
I can't wait to get more from this author!!

Another good mystery from Monica Ferris. This was a really quick read, I finished it one day. Betsy Devonshire ends up investigating a 50 year old murder after one of her shop's Monday Bunch is suspected. She's still trying to adapt to living in the freezing North, and trying to work her way through owning a business, of which she knows next to nothing. I like that Ferris isn't afraid to finger regular characters in her books. There's nothing worse than that old "new guy in town" who ends up doing the deed.
Wonderful, colorful descriptions of needlework of all kinds abound in this book, as well, as always, a pattern at the back of the book if you are talented enough to try it out.

This one was easier to get into than the first one in the series (this is the second). The plot was decent, the characters interesting, although there are a few that are plain strange, and the setting has a lot of charm. Worth the read.

Another excellent read by Monica Ferris. I read this second to the first in her series. But you could read it without having read the first book as it's a good stand alone. Love this authors writing and style.

The second of the needlecraft mysteries finds Betsy Devonshire invited by her cop friend Jill to watch the raising from the lake of an old barge that will be turned into a trolley. It becomes the scene of a crime when a skeleton is found in the wreckage showing the marks of murder. The corpse turns out to be that of Trudie, a waitress who had disappeared in 1948 and long suspected to have run off with Carl Winters, who also disappeared at the same time. His wife Martha is arrested for the murder, and her friends all implore Betsy to investigate and prove her innocence. Ferris's second needlecraft mystery is as finely wrought as the first, though if you can actually remember details unlike me, there are enough clues for the reader to solve the murder. And as with the first, I really wish they'd put pictures or illustrations as the description of bobbin lace sounds fascinating!

Second book in Monica Ferris' Needlecraft Mystery series. I enjoyed this one even more than the first one, as the reader gets to know the characters in the story better. In this one, amateur sleuth and needlecraft shopowner Betsy Devonshire reluctantly agrees to try to solve a 50-year old murder. The murder itself is an interesting one: when an old ferry is raised from its resting place on the bottom of the lake, a skeleton is found on board. When one of Betsy's "Monday Bunch" of stitching friends is arrested for the murder, Betsy decides to solve the crime.

Great characters in this series, along with a healthy dose of cross-stitch and knitting tidbits.