Crewel and Unusual
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- $24.99
Publisher Description
Yarn shop owner Kath Rutledge is looking forward to the grand opening of the Blue Plum Vault, a new co-op of small shops, but in the week before the grand opening, two of the new shopkeepers, Nervie and Belinda, declare each other’s embroidery patterns and antique embroidered linens fakes, copies—and stolen goods. Kath is caught in the middle when she’s asked to use her textile expertise to decide if there’s any truth to the accusations.Then, the day before the grand opening, an exquisite tablecloth that Kath has fallen in love with—the pride of Belinda’s shop—is found cut to shreds. Belinda accuses Nervie of the outrage, but Nervie has an airtight alibi: she was at Kath’s shop, the Weaver’s Cat, teaching a crewel embroidery class.Despite worries over the rivalry and vandalism, the opening is a success—until Belinda is found dead, stabbed in the back with a pair of scissors from the Weaver’s Cat. Geneva, the ghost who haunts Kath’s store, claims she saw the murderer leaving the scene of the crime. But the ghost is the ultimate unreliable witness—only Kath and her shop manager can see or hear her. That means it’s up to Kath, TGIF, and especially Geneva the ghost to solve the crime before the killer cuts another life short.
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In Macrae's solid sixth Haunted Yarn Shop mystery (after 2015's Knot the Usual Suspects), the residents of Blue Plum, Tenn., are saddened when retired banker Garland Brown is found dead at a mountain trailhead parking area, his head bashed in with a rock. But life must go on, and Kath Rutledge, a textile preservation specialist and owner of Weaver's Cat Yarn Shop, is drawn into a quarrel between two acquaintances when she's asked to authenticate a 1940s era embroidered tablecloth belonging to Belinda Moyer, owner of a space in the Vault, a co-op for small arts-related shops in a repurposed bank. Nervie Bales thinks Belinda's vintage linens are fake. Belinda accuses Nervie of stealing her patterns. The feud takes a deadly turn when Belinda is found dead with a pair of scissors from Weaver's Cat stuck in her back. Could the murders be related? With the help of Geneva, the resident ghost of Weaver's Cat, Kath and friends lay a trap to catch a killer. The motive for the murders may be weak, but cozy fans will enjoy the quirky characters and charming, small-town setting.