Buried in Quilts - Hardcover

Frommer, Sara Hoskinson

3.52

120 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312114729 ISBN 13: 9780312114725

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1994

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As manager (and a violist) of the Oliver, Indiana, Civic Symphony, Joan Spencer has her hands overflowing. The orchestra is rehearsing to play at a prestigious quilt show when elderly Edna Ellett dies, and Joan's prickly daughter Rebecca unexpectedly comes home.
Joan hasn't seen or heard from her twenty-year-old daughter for months: both women still grieve the early death of Joan's husband and Rebecca's father. Though Rebecca appears fine, Joan suspects she is troubled, and she braces herself for conflict.
Meanwhile, members of Edna Ellett's family search like vultures for the will. On the eve of the quilt show one of them is murdered, and Joan discovers the body underneath a quilt. With the small town of Oliver in a tizzy, Joan joins police officer Fred Lundquist to investigate a mystery with roots - and stitches - deep in history.
Humorous and cozy, with each chapter named for a quilt pattern, Sara Frommer's novel will delight musicians, mystery lovers, and anyone who enjoys the art of quilting.

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About the Author:

Sara Hoskinson Frommer is the author of three other Joan Spencer Mysteries: Murder in C Major, Murder & Sullivan, and The Vanishing Violinist. She plays viola in the Bloomington Symphony and is an old hand at quilting. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana. http://www.sff.net/people/SaraHoskinsonFrommer

From Kirkus Reviews:

No sooner has old Edna Ellett, of Oliver, Ind., died of the flu than her relatives gather to squabble over her estate, from the big- ticket items like the house she shared with cousin Kitty Graf to the quilt she left unfinished. Violist Joan Spencer, who knew Edna from her volunteer work at the local senior center, watches from afar as Edna's overbearing daughter, Mary Sue, dutifully described as good- hearted by innocent acquaintances, tries to outmaneuver her smarmy brother, Leon, and her long-suffering sister, Alice, for a line on their mother's vanished will. As Mary Sue is marshaling the forces for the Alcorn County Quilt Show, however, she's unceremoniously killed, and Joan, whose orchestra has been engaged to play for the show, suddenly finds herself thrown together again with her infuriatingly inconstant beau, Lt. Fred Lundquist, to find the killer and the still- missing will. As if the Elletts weren't enough of a handful--Leon even wants to date Joan--she also has to deal with the thief who's been stealing computer chips from campus computers, and the thief (the same one?) who's made off with her daughter Rebecca's bravely individual entry in the quilt show. Despite some nifty last-minute twists that enliven a moribund plot, the substitution of quilting for the musical background of Murder in C Major (1986) is likely to discourage more readers than it attracts. And such indiscriminate traffic in felonies only reminds you that too many quilters spoil the cloth. -- Copyright �1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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