PLAGUED BY QUILT
MOLLY MACRAE
SERIES: A HAUNTED YARN SHOP MYSTERY #4
GENRES/ SUBJECTS: CONTEMPORARY, COSY MYSTERY, PARANORMAL-GHOSTS
★★★★
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Yarn shop owner Kath Rutledge is at a historic farm in Blue Plum, Tennessee, volunteering for the high school program Hands on History. But when a long-buried murder is uncovered on the property, Kath needs help from Geneva the ghost to solve a crime that time forgot….
Kath and her needlework group TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Fiber) are preparing to teach a workshop at the Holston Homeplace Living History Farm, but their lesson in crazy quilts is no match for the crazy antics of the assistant director, Phillip Bell. Hamming it up with equal parts history and histrionics, Phillip leads an archaeological dig of the farm’s original dump site—until one student stops the show by uncovering some human bones.
When a full skeleton is later excavated, Kath can’t help but wonder if it’s somehow connected to Geneva, the ghost who haunts her shop, and whom she met at this very site. After Phillip is found dead, it’s up to Kath to thread the clues together before someone else becomes history.
Plagued By Quilt is the fourth in the Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery series and held my attention just as well and the first three.
There are some great new aspects added this time around with the introduction of an archeological investigation, which lets MacRae dig into Kath’s skills as a textile conserver. It makes the mystery feel very natural as it gives our heroine a good reason to be in a new location with new suspects.
‘The posse’ is working on two cases this time around — a recent murder and a cold case (which just so happens to be connected to the ghost, Geneva). MacRae has been dropping breadcrumbs about Geneva’s past from the start and I really liked that we finally get to know her story.
We’ve also finally settled the icky brotherly love triangle business with Kath and Joe going on adorable otter-spotting dates, Kath and Cole back to their usual antagonism, and a new love-interest in Cole’s life. I can breathe a sigh of relief! As with previous books, the minor character each get a little more development this time around too — the irritating Spivey twin apparently have a knack with teenagers, we meet Ardis’ father and each of the ‘posse’ play their part in the investigation.
Another fun installment and I’m really looking forward to reading the series finale, Knot the Usual Suspects, next.
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