A Crafter Quilts a Crime: A Handcrafted Mystery
by Holly Quinn
About A Crafter Quilts A Crime
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Publisher: Crooked Lane
Books (February 11, 2020)
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
1643852906
ISBN-13:
978-1643852904
Kindle ASIN:
B07RTMXRK8
Perfect for fans of Betty
Hechtman and Maggie Sefton, Holly Quinn's third Handcrafted mystery
aspires to wrap you in its warmth.
Community Craft proprietor Sammy Kane must piece
together a patchwork of clues when a "live" mannequin ends
up stone-cold dead.
Snowcapped pines and glittery dusted sidewalks
adorn tranquil Heartsford, Wisconsin, while residents cuddle beneath
heirloom quilts in front of cozy wood fires. But come the next day,
the below-zero temperatures won't keep the locals away from
Heartsford's annual Fire & Ice event. To boost customer
traffic at Community Craft's one-night-only sale, Samantha "Sammy"
Kane persuades a few of the craftspeople who sell their wares at the
store to participate in a live mannequin window display contest.
Local quilter Wanda Wadsworth emerges as a favorite
to win the contest, as she manages to not move a muscle for an
unusual amount of time. Onlookers outside the window try everything
to get her to crack--tapping on the glass and making funny faces--but
nothing disrupts Wanda's stillness. When the eagle-eyed spectators
realize Wanda isn't breathing, a blanket of grief and fear descends
upon the wintry town.
Detective Liam Nash can't seem to piece the clues
together. Fortunately, Sammy's cousin, Heidi, and her sister, Ellie,
are on hand to reconvene their detective team, S.H.E. They set out to
solve Wanda's untimely death before the case grows as icy as a
sub-zero Wisconsin winter. But they are all too aware that the killer
is too close for comfort.
Review: The Handcrafted Mystery series is a new to me series. This is book three in the series which is set in Wisconsin.
I really enjoyed the winter themed mystery, especially since winter in PA has been mostly nonexistent this year.
The group of sleuths includes 2 sisters and a cousin, together the are known as the S.H.E.'s. Sammy, Heidi and Ellie. Too cute.
What I love about cozy mysteries is the same as what I love about romance, its a form of escape because lets face it, if things happened like they do in books, well that wouldn't say much for our law enforcement and it definitely means our crime rates are lousy in all these small towns.
I had a bit of an issue with Sammy's over-reaching the law here. No cop wouldn't have hauled them in for what they did early on.
I love how they stuck together to find out what really happened to Wanda. There were so many different avenues this could have gone down. Ms. Quinn really kept you guessing until the very end.
Oh and some of the food that Ellie makes will have your mouth watering. Thank goodness there are recipes at the end of the book.
All mysteries aside, I love that there is a touch of romance going on here for 2 of the S.H.E.s as well. I don't want to spoil anything but the ending is just wonderful!
I can't wait to read more of this series.
Rating: 4 flowers
Review: The Handcrafted Mystery series is a new to me series. This is book three in the series which is set in Wisconsin.
I really enjoyed the winter themed mystery, especially since winter in PA has been mostly nonexistent this year.
The group of sleuths includes 2 sisters and a cousin, together the are known as the S.H.E.'s. Sammy, Heidi and Ellie. Too cute.
What I love about cozy mysteries is the same as what I love about romance, its a form of escape because lets face it, if things happened like they do in books, well that wouldn't say much for our law enforcement and it definitely means our crime rates are lousy in all these small towns.
I had a bit of an issue with Sammy's over-reaching the law here. No cop wouldn't have hauled them in for what they did early on.
I love how they stuck together to find out what really happened to Wanda. There were so many different avenues this could have gone down. Ms. Quinn really kept you guessing until the very end.
Oh and some of the food that Ellie makes will have your mouth watering. Thank goodness there are recipes at the end of the book.
All mysteries aside, I love that there is a touch of romance going on here for 2 of the S.H.E.s as well. I don't want to spoil anything but the ending is just wonderful!
I can't wait to read more of this series.
Rating: 4 flowers
About Holly Quinn
Holly Quinn has
published two stand-alone fiction novels in another persona. She
graduated from Carroll University in Wisconsin with a Bachelor of
Science in business and a minor in marketing. This is her second
Handcrafted mystery. Visit her @ www.authorhollyquinn.com
Author Links –
Website – www.authorhollyquinn.com
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/HollyQuinnbooks/
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2 comments:
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A fantastic book - I really enjoyed it!
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