Twisted Threads (Mainely Needlepoint, Bk 1)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Author:
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Twisted Threads is the first installment in the Mainely Needlepoint Mystery series. Angela Curtis left home in Haven Harbor, Maine ten years ago to escape the whispering that was going on behind her back. Working successfully as an assistant to a Private Investigator in Mesa, Arizona Angie receives a phone call from her Grandmother Charlotte telling her it's time to come home - they've found her Mother's body.
When Angie was 9 years old her mother Jenny had disappeared. Jenny had quite the reputation around town for her numerous "relationships" with various men, and her flashy appearance. Everyone in town seemed to think that Jenny had just walked away with one of her "friends", but Angie and her grandmother never believed that, always convinced that something bad had happened to her.
Lauren Greene Decker was cleaning out the storage unit of her deceased father, Joe Greene when she discovered Jenny's body in a chest freezer. It appears as though Jenny has been in the freezer for the past 19 years, and that Joe had continued to pay the rent on the unit and kept the freezer plugged in and running. An autopsy reveals that Jenny had been shot point blank in the back of the head, and without Joe alive to defend himself the town begins to speculate on whether Joe was actually the murderer and if so, what was his motive.
The discovery of her mother's body is not the only surprise awaiting Angie in Haven Harbor. Charlotte has started a needlepoint business "Mainely Needlepoint" and hired several townspeople to help with the stitching projects. The stitchers include Ruth Hopkins, Dave Percy, Lauren Decker, Ob Winslow, Katie Titcomb and Sarah Bryne who all rely on the extra money from the stitching to survive in the mainly tourist town.
Charlotte confesses to Angie that she had hired an agent, Jacques Lattimore to act on behalf of the needlepointers but he had stopped paying them for their completed and delivered crafts and had now disappeared owing the group over $33,000.00. Charlotte begs Angie to use her private eye skills to locate Lattimore and get the money for the crafters. Angie agrees to help Charlotte and locates the missing Lattimore, she brings him to her grandmother's house to meet with the crafters and he suddenly gets violently ill and dies. With all of the crafters being owed money it seems there is a lot of motive for murder.
I enjoyed this book as there were two separate mysteries going on at the same time. Even though the two murders are not related the author did a great job of weaving information about both into each chapter. It was a refreshing change to have a heroine that was not involved in the dreaded relationship triangle, in fact Angie isn't involved in a relationship at all.
A smart and intriguing cast of characters, and a quaint town on the shores of Maine. I'm looking forward to the next in the series, Threads of Evidence, as Angie will be staying in Haven Harbor to run Mainely Needlepoint.
When Angie was 9 years old her mother Jenny had disappeared. Jenny had quite the reputation around town for her numerous "relationships" with various men, and her flashy appearance. Everyone in town seemed to think that Jenny had just walked away with one of her "friends", but Angie and her grandmother never believed that, always convinced that something bad had happened to her.
Lauren Greene Decker was cleaning out the storage unit of her deceased father, Joe Greene when she discovered Jenny's body in a chest freezer. It appears as though Jenny has been in the freezer for the past 19 years, and that Joe had continued to pay the rent on the unit and kept the freezer plugged in and running. An autopsy reveals that Jenny had been shot point blank in the back of the head, and without Joe alive to defend himself the town begins to speculate on whether Joe was actually the murderer and if so, what was his motive.
The discovery of her mother's body is not the only surprise awaiting Angie in Haven Harbor. Charlotte has started a needlepoint business "Mainely Needlepoint" and hired several townspeople to help with the stitching projects. The stitchers include Ruth Hopkins, Dave Percy, Lauren Decker, Ob Winslow, Katie Titcomb and Sarah Bryne who all rely on the extra money from the stitching to survive in the mainly tourist town.
Charlotte confesses to Angie that she had hired an agent, Jacques Lattimore to act on behalf of the needlepointers but he had stopped paying them for their completed and delivered crafts and had now disappeared owing the group over $33,000.00. Charlotte begs Angie to use her private eye skills to locate Lattimore and get the money for the crafters. Angie agrees to help Charlotte and locates the missing Lattimore, she brings him to her grandmother's house to meet with the crafters and he suddenly gets violently ill and dies. With all of the crafters being owed money it seems there is a lot of motive for murder.
I enjoyed this book as there were two separate mysteries going on at the same time. Even though the two murders are not related the author did a great job of weaving information about both into each chapter. It was a refreshing change to have a heroine that was not involved in the dreaded relationship triangle, in fact Angie isn't involved in a relationship at all.
A smart and intriguing cast of characters, and a quaint town on the shores of Maine. I'm looking forward to the next in the series, Threads of Evidence, as Angie will be staying in Haven Harbor to run Mainely Needlepoint.
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