Buried In Quilts: A Joan Spencer Mystery (Joan Spencer Mysteries) - Softcover

Frommer, Sara Hoskinson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595143067 ISBN 13: 9780595143061

Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

Joan Spencer and the Oliver Civic Symphony are rehearsing The Unanswered Question when Joan finds a body. If you like quilts, music, and low-key mystery, this one will please. Deadly Pleasures

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0595143067
• ISBN 13: 9780595143061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252