Tagging along to an estate sale with her fellow Needlepointer, antiques shop owner Sarah Byrne, Angie Curtis impulsively bids on a tattered embroidery of a coat of arms. When she gets her prize back home to Haven Harbor, she discovers a document from 1757 behind the framed needlework--a claim for a child from a foundling hospital. Intrigued, Angie is determined to find the common thread between the child and the coat of arms.
Accepting her reporter friend Clem Walker's invitation to talk about her find on the local TV news, Angie makes an appeal to anyone who might have information. Instead, both women receive death threats. When Clem is found shot to death in a parking lot, Angie fears her own life may be in jeopardy. She has to unravel this historical mystery--or she may be the next one going, going . . . gone . . . (Summary via Goodreads)
If you have been reading the Mainely Needlepoint Mystery series by Lea Wait, you may agree with me that Thread Herring, the seventh book in this series, is your favorite !! Not that you have to read these books in order, you can pick one up within the series and fall in love with Angie and Haven Harbor !!
In Thread Herring things gets very, very personal for Angie when her friend Clem is murdered. Clem was only trying to help Angie with a piece of embroidery of a coat of arms that she recently bid and won at an auction. Angie took the piece out of the frame and found some paperwork regarding a boy from 1757. Clem offers to do a piece on the local news that she works at asking the public for help. Little did they know that by doing this Clem would end up murdered and Angie would have to go into hiding before she becomes the next victim......
Thread Herring is my favorite book in this series (so far) because things surrounding the murder are so personal to Angie. We see Angie's relationship with Patrick go to the next level and even see her best friend, Sarah, start to date someone close to them all. Also because the murder victim was a friend of Angie's, we see Angie take things to a deeper level than in the previous books.....
Lea Wait gets the reader engrossed into the story immediately and knows how to keep your attention to the end and knows how to insure that you will be a devoted fan. I, for one, know that I will return to Haven Harbor and hang out with Angie whenever Wait provides the books for them. If there was a way to move there, I would already be there...........
Review by Missi M.
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