Thai Die

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As owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has become skilled at weaving suspicious threads together. Just back from a trip to Thailand, Doris Valentine is eager to show her stitching friends her souvenirs, which includes dazzling Thai silk. She also has a small stone Buddha that she agreed to deliver to an antique store in St. Paul. It's wrapped in a dirty rag, which she throws away. When she meets the dealer, he is surprised that she unwrapped it, though relieved the statue's delicate hands aren't damaged. The next night, Doris's apartment is broken into, and the things she bought in Thailand are taken. The antique shop owner is found murdered and his shop ransacked. The Buddha is gone. Then someone confronts Doris with a gun, demanding the "Thai silk." Meanwhile, Betsy starts to wonder about the dingy wrapper she retrieved from the trash.

Critics Review

  • “Among the many
    souvenirs Betsy’s friend Doris Valentine brings home from a Thailand
    vacation is a stone Buddha to be delivered to a St. Paul antiques
    dealer. When Doris discards the dirty cloth the Buddha was wrapped in,
    Betsy rescues the cloth, which turns out to be valuable silk more than
    2,000 years old…After someone ransacks Doris’s apartment
    and murders the antiques dealer, Sgt. Mike Malloy of the Excelsior
    police and civilian detective Betsy find themselves involved in a case
    more complicated than any needlework pattern she’s ever attempted.”

    Publishers Weekly

  • “Betsy Devonshire and the other Monday Bunch regulars eagerly
    welcome back Doris Valentine from a trip to Thailand…Doris also shows them a
    small stone Buddha that she has agreed to deliver to an antiques store
    in St. Paul. Then the store owner is murdered, [and] the statue stolen…Excelsior police officer
    Mike Malloy and Betsy are soon trying to unravel the clues…This mixture of believable action, cozy
    scenes, and commentary on the problem of priceless artifact theft makes
    this one of the strongest entries in the series.”

    Booklist

  • “A wonderful cerebral whodunit.”

    Midwest Book Review

  • “Needlecrafters and fans of Maggie Sefton’s knitting mysteries will snap this up.”

    Library Journal

  • “[A] mixture of believable action, cozy scenes, and commentary.”

    Booklist

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