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A Murderous Yarn

A Needlecraft Mystery

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A Murderous Yarn

By: Monica Ferris
Narrated by: Susan Boyce
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Heavens to Betsy Devonshire! She never intended to get so caught up in this year's antique car race. But as sponsor of one of the entrants, she can't help but keep a close eye on the outcome - and it's not pretty. One of the drivers never makes it to the finish line. His car is found exploded in flames. Now Betsy and her crafty friends must determine if it was an accident or the work of a jealous competitor. The answer may be in a piece of needlework, but pinning down a suspect won't be easy....

©2002 Monica Kuhfeld. All rights reserved. (P)2012 AudioGo
Amateur Sleuths Cozy Detective Fiction Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Suspense
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Enjoyable Storyline • Good Mystery • Wonderful Narration • Intriguing Plot • Refreshing Intertwining
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The characters are developing more with each topic. I enjoyed the description of period costumes as they complemented the antique autos. i could visualize the vehicles and their passengers. figured who done it early but was glad to see how it panned out.

Car Research

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i likes this and the others in the needle work murders . its easy listening to and there is always a murder. but the characters themselves are great

knowledge of needle work

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This is my fifth book in this series and my least favorite.
With 2 hours to go I’m not sure I’ll finish it. All this classic car talk is completely boring, my mind keeps drifting off……

Antique cars = boring for me

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Love Monica Ferris' novels. Great characters, good plots and the narration was excellent.

Can't wait to get another book in this series.

Thoroughly enjoyable novel

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What made the experience of listening to A Murderous Yarn the most enjoyable?

The narrator is great and easy to listen to. She does a great job in making the story come to life with wonderful narration.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

The plot is wonderful and light, the mystery is something that makes one think. Trying to figure out what the clues are is fun and the characters are wonderful.

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A great story and the intertwining of the antique cars with needle arts is so refreshing.

A great light reading with enjoyable story line!

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Betsy Devonshire, owner of Crewel World is sponsoring Lars Larsen in his Stanley Steamer on the Antique Car run. When one of the car and its driver, Bill Birmingham doesn't make it back, it is discovered that his car was found burned to a crisp along the drive back. His car was having some difficulties and he was working on it intermittently all during the race, so it was thought that it was an accident, at first. But soon it was determined that he was shot prior to the fiery explosion. Now Betsy, successful amateur sleuth is on the job again, along with her police woman friend, Jill. This is a fun addition to the series, with all the normal characters included. Great story and resolution to the murder.

Antique Cars, Stitching and Fiery Death

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I learned more about antique cars than I ever dreamed. I listened to the audio book version.

A murderous yarn

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If you're into needlecraft & ever wanted to know more about classic cars, this is a mystery for you.
I love that the author wanted to expand Betsy's hobbies & classic cars are gorgeous. Unfortunately it felt more like the mystery existed just so the author could write about classic cars. The mystery was very haphazardly tossed together & Betsy barely did an snooping. The answers practically popped out at you. There was barely any mystery to this cozy mystery, but lots of classic cars & some character development.
As usual the narrator did an excellent job portraying the various characters.

Loved the classic cars, but missed the mystery.

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Did think the wife was part of the plot but then again who would with all the suspects.

Dot

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What did you like best about A Murderous Yarn? What did you like least?

I like the characters and their further development. Loved the idea of the antique cars and got more insight to Betsy, the main character. I have listened to several, maybe 5 of these - however this one was a big disappointment. There was not near the investigation by Betsy, we didn't get the little minutia, and logical thinking that Betsy usually goes through. It was a much thinner plot, not as involved, in fact fairly transparent. I will listen to one more, and if it's this 'simple' - then I'm done.

Least Best - so far.

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