Wild goose chase : a quilting mystery

Format:

Book

Title:

Wild goose chase : a quilting mystery

Author:

Thayer, Terri.

ISBN:

9780738712154

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

301 pages ; 21 cm

Summary:

During a national quilt show, Dewey decides she's had enough and agrees to sell Quilter Paradiso to quilting celebrity Claire Armstrong. Her plan unravels when she finds Claire fatally slashed by a rotary cutter. This gruesome tragedy brings homicide detective and old family friend Buster Healey into Dewey's life. Their reunion turns into a hot romance -- until another murder takes place.

Subject(s):

Pellicano, Dewey (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Quilting -- Fiction.

Specialty stores -- Fiction.

Retail trade -- Ownership -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- Fiction.

California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Holds:

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Summary

A computer techie by trade, Dewey Pellicano would rather swallow needles than be pinned down to a life of quilting. But when her mother passes away, Dewey must exchange code for calico as the new proprietress of Quilter Paradiso.

Between learning the business and dealing with a conniving employee who is also her sister-in-law, Dewey is ready to snap. During a national quilt show, quilting celebrity Claire Armstrong offers to buy the shop. But before Dewey can accept, she finds the famous quilter lying dead on the floor--a bloody rotary cutter at her side.

When hunky homicide detective Buster Healy enters the scene, romance flourishes...until another murder takes place. Can Dewey thread together the pieces to this murderous pattern before the killer strikes again?

Wild Goose Chaseis the first book in the Quilting Mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Dewey Pellicano.

Author Notes

Terri Thayeris the author of the Quilting Mysteries (Midnight Ink) and the Stamping Sisters Mysteries (Penguin). She belongs to the Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America organizations, and has been an active member in several quilting associations in the Santa Clara Valley. Originally from the East Coast, she now lives in San Jose and travels to quilt shows and conventions year round. Visit her online at www.TerriThayer.com.

Reviews (2)

Kirkus Review

A computer geek inherits a quilt shop, helps run a booth at the Northern California Quilt Extravaganza and becomes a murder suspect. Dewey Pellicano is slowly recovering from the hit-and-run death of her mother, founder of Quilter Paradiso. Bereft of a computing job, she's trying to bring the shop's operating system up to speed, though her sister-in-law Kym is fighting her every step of the way. Discouraged, she's willing to listen when quilt diva Claire Armstrong hints that she may want to buy the store. Unfortunately, she arrives at Claire's hotel room to find her mortally wounded by a quilt cutter. Sergeant Roy Sanchez obviously considers Dewey a suspect, but also on the case is old family friend Buster Healy, whose messages on her answering machine Dewey's been steadfastly ignoring. Now she finds Buster's sex appeal and sympathy a potent combination. Their affair sputters, however, when Buster seems to view her with suspicion. Dewey's sleuthing reveals many people willing to buy her shop and discloses some dangerous secrets Claire was hiding. Pressed into a quilt fashion show, Dewey stumbles over one of the show managers, dead on the catwalk. The lady had a big gambling problem, but now it's Dewey who must go the limit to prove her innocence. Dewey's debut compares well to other cozies that use craft shops as backgrounds for murder. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Library Journal Review

Computer programer Dewey Pellicano knows little about running the quilting shop she inherited from her mother. So at a national quilt show, she agrees to sell the business to a quilting expert. When the expert is murdered, Dewey is the number-one suspect. Not quite chick lit (everyone is better dressed than Dewey) and a bit too sexy for a cozy, this standard debut mystery with a few surprises will only appeal to quilters. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.