Book Review: The Quick and the Thread

Title: The Quick and the Thread

Author: Amanda Lee

Series: Embroidery Mystery

Book in Series: 1

Genre: Mystery

Format: Kindle

Publisher: Berkley

Published: August 3, 2010

Pages: 324

My Rating: 5 stars

Synopsis: 

When Marcy Singer opens an embroidery specialty shop in quaint Tallulah Falls, Oregon, she throws a soiree and a Stitch-In. Soon Marcy's sign up sheet for embroidery classes fills up and everyone in town seems to be willing to raise a glass-or a needle up to support the newly opened Seven Year Stitch.

Then Marcy finds the shops previous tenant dead in the store room, a message scratched with a tapestry needle on the wall beside him.  Now Marcy's shop has become a crime scene, and she is the prime suspect.  She will have to find the killer, before he puts a stitch in her.

My Thoughts: 

This book is the first in the series, I am a little late in the game in reading this.  I wasn't sure if I would enjoy this book.  I have to tell you this book was excellent.  It is nice to see a mystery that also includes a needle specialty shop for cross stitch.  I am an avid stitcher and this was right up my alley.  The story and the plot were very well written, and the whole story just flowed.  

We follow along with Marcy to help her find out who killed someone in her storeroom.  It takes us on a journey into cross stitching and murder.

This is definitely a must read mystery, especially if you are a cross stitcher, or even a crafter.

I give this book a rating of 5 stars!!!!

About the Author:

Gayle Trent (and pseudonym Amanda Lee) writes the Daphne Martin Cake Decorating Series and the Embroidery Mystery Series.  The cake decorating series features a heroine who is starting her life over in Southwest Virginia after a nasty divorce.  The Embroidery Mystery features a heroine who recently moved to the Oregon Coast to open an embroidery specialty shop.

Readers will be looking forward to future adventures.  RT Book Reviews nominated The Quick and Thread for a 2010 Book Reviewers Choice Award in the Amateur Sleuth Category.

Gayle Trent lives in Virginia with her family which includes her own "Angus", who is not an Irish Wolfhound, but a Great Pyrehees who provides plenty of inspiration for the character Mr. O'Ruff.