Crewel and Unusual: A Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery

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The latest mystery in this charming mystery series finds the ever-resourceful Kath Rutledge and shop ghost Geneva tangled up in an embroidery rivalry and a murder.Yarn shop owner Kath Rutledge is looking forward to the grand opening of the Blue Plum Vault, a new co-op of small shops, but in the week before the grand opening, two of the new shopkeepers, Nervie and Belinda, declare each other embroidery patterns and antique embroidered linens fakes, copies and stolen goods. Kath is caught in the middle when she asked to use her textile expertise to decide if there any truth to the accusations. Then, the day before the grand opening, an exquisite tablecloth that Kath has fallen in love with the pride of Belinda shop is found cut to shreds. Belinda accuses Nervie of the outrage, but Nervie has an airtight alibi: she was at Kath shop, the Weaver Cat, teaching a crewel embroidery class. Despite worries over the rivalry and vandalism, the opening is a success until Belinda is found dead, stabbed in the back with a pair of scissors from the Weaver Cat. Geneva, the ghost who haunts Kath store, claims she saw the murderer leaving the scene of the crime. But the ghost is the ultimate unreliable witness only Kath and her shop manager can see or hear her. That means it up to Kath, TGIF, and especially Geneva the ghost to solve the crime before the killer cuts another life short.

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