Cutwork (Needlecraft Mystery)
by Monica Ferris
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Author: Monica FerrisEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-01-06
ISBN: 0425193896
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Berkley
Book Reviews of Cutwork (Needlecraft Mystery)
Book Review: A Wooden Death
Summary: 4 Stars
Betsy Devonshire, owner of the needle craft shop, Crewel World in Excelsior, Minnesota is helping out at the art fair. Sitting in the information booth, she's not doing much business in the pouring rain.
Things really pick up when Irene Potter goes into the tent of wood carver Robert McFey and finds him dead on the floor, his throat cut and his cash box looted.
How could someone have killed the artist in an open booth in the middle of an art fair.
Mike Malloy, thinks he knows what happens and immediately arrests young Mickey Sinclair, a teenager who's been in trouble with the police before. Mickey's scared and when Betsy is asked to help him, she's goes to the jail where they have a talk. She's sure Mickey's lying about not stealing the money, but she believes him when he says he didn't commit the murder.
So who did? Robert McFey had been a prosperous advertising man before he was diagnosed with terminal hepatitis. Selling his business, he decided he wanted to live out his life doing his art. That was okay when he was dying, but Robert wasn't going to die. He'd been misdiagnosed. Even with that news, he had refused to go back to work.
This didn't set well with his wife, Pamela, who would now have to go back to work. Not only was their house in foreclosure, but their son Coy wouldn't be able to go to college. Only his teenage daughter was upset by his death.
She points the finger at her father's former partner, Banner Wilcox, who had gone to work for and bought stock in the company that had purchased their old company. Unfortunately, the new company went bankrupt and he lost everything.
And what about Robert's friend Ian Masterson who had purchased one of Robert's life insurance policy when he thought the man was dying. Was he tired of waiting to collect.
By putting together all the clues, Betsy is able to solve the crime and save an innocent "sort of" teenager from prison.
Highlights:
The mystery. I figured out what the clue was that would lead to the killer, but I guessed the wrong one and thought the wrong person was the killer.
Godwin - Betsy's makes it legal that he will take over Crewel World if anything should happen to her and gives him a management position. He just can't decide what his title should be.
Godwin's first decision as manager is to have a newsletter. "Hasta la Stitches."
Betsy's meeting with Godwin's lover, John.
Sergeant Jill Cross - who passed the Sergeants test and Deputy Lars Larson, who refuses to take it because he likes being a patrolman, coming up against the rule that there can be NO fraternization between the ranks. Of course, these two law abiding cops would never break the rules, much to Betsy's disgust.
Betsy & Jill's first major fight when Betsy can't resist gossiping about a clue that Jill had told her in confidence.
Lowlights.
Very disappointed in Shelly.
Good solid read. Can't wait for the next book to come out. Luckily I have the new Mary Daheim & Leslie Meier books to read.
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