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Harriet Truman / Loose Threads Mystery #7
A Quilt in Time
Pet quilts are the project of the day for Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads. Local veterinarian Aiden Jalbert decides to set up an animal kennel for the local battered women’s shelter and asks the quilters to sew bedding for it. Harriet is soon drawn into the world of domestic violence when Loose Thread Sarah Ness calls from the emergency room, where she’s landed as a result of a vicious beating by her fiancé Seth Pratt. Sarah initially refuses to consider going to the shelter but is forced to change her mind when she wakes to find Seth dead beside her in bed. Is Harriet’s friend a killer, or did someone else want Seth dead? Will Harriet put herself in the killer’s sights if she tries to figure it out?
- GenresCozy Mystery
201 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 3, 2014
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Arlene Sachitano
19 books52 followersArlene also teaches a group of creative women in the coastal town of Tillamook, Oregon how to make interesting things by wrapping string around two sticks. Supporting Arlene in her writing endeavors are her husband, children and her feline companion Lydia.
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Displaying 1 - 16 of 16 reviews
July 15, 2023
A murder mystery, a group of quilters and an abused woman. I bought this from the author and she told me that she tried to introduce a social problem in each of her books. As a quilter, I enjoyed the references to quilting and as a mystery reader appreciated her skill in writing mystery.
June 21, 2014
A cat, quilts and a mystery - I was eager to read it. I wanted to really like it but could not get in to it. Just kept wondering why these women were taking it upon themselves to act like detectives. And with surveillance equipment? Where did that come from? It just seemed too contrived.
February 6, 2019
Great adventure of the Loose Threads.
The Loose Threads come together for another mystery solving and quilting adventure. Enjoyed reading this fast pace mystery. As a fellow quilter, I always love their gathering as quilting friends. Harriet and Lauren working together to help another quilting friend in trouble. Liked how the ending was written with all the plot twist and turns. The author keeps getting better with each book in the series. Can hardly wait to read the next book.
The Loose Threads come together for another mystery solving and quilting adventure. Enjoyed reading this fast pace mystery. As a fellow quilter, I always love their gathering as quilting friends. Harriet and Lauren working together to help another quilting friend in trouble. Liked how the ending was written with all the plot twist and turns. The author keeps getting better with each book in the series. Can hardly wait to read the next book.
March 31, 2023
I have loved all the Loose Threads series of quilters solving mysteries, but then again I know the author personally and love her too. She even dedicated one story to my Mom!
This one is a bit more thrilling then some of the others with them sleuthing and solving several old murders while quilting and sewing for a women's shelter with the help of some real characters from the senior center. All the Loose Threads mysteries take place in Foggy Point, Washington along the Washington State coast.
This one is a bit more thrilling then some of the others with them sleuthing and solving several old murders while quilting and sewing for a women's shelter with the help of some real characters from the senior center. All the Loose Threads mysteries take place in Foggy Point, Washington along the Washington State coast.
August 20, 2020
Great
This one seems so short compared to the others in this series. But that's because it's so good. The topic here though is domestic violence, which is not talked enough about. It occurs in more families than we would like to admit but a very important subject just the same. Good story, enjoy it.
This one seems so short compared to the others in this series. But that's because it's so good. The topic here though is domestic violence, which is not talked enough about. It occurs in more families than we would like to admit but a very important subject just the same. Good story, enjoy it.
July 10, 2017
This series had a slow start but it kept the reader going to sort out all the characters in this quilting group. The setting is Washington and the ending lets the reader know there will be more tales to follow. copy right 2014
July 4, 2018
Another great one in the Harriet Truman series
I'm really enjoying this series. All the characters are interesting and like info about the quilts. Look forward to reading the next one
I'm really enjoying this series. All the characters are interesting and like info about the quilts. Look forward to reading the next one
May 16, 2019
Twisted family ties
The Loose Threads quilting group is on the job, this time helping out a battered women's shelter. A shelter that they think their friend Sarah needs to go to after she's brutally beaten. Life is never dull in Foggy Point!
The Loose Threads quilting group is on the job, this time helping out a battered women's shelter. A shelter that they think their friend Sarah needs to go to after she's brutally beaten. Life is never dull in Foggy Point!
March 17, 2022
never underestimate the power of senior citizens
Battered women and senior citizens may look vulnerable but they can still protect themselves. The author does a great job of putting the Loose Threads to work on another noble cause in need of help and encouragement.
Battered women and senior citizens may look vulnerable but they can still protect themselves. The author does a great job of putting the Loose Threads to work on another noble cause in need of help and encouragement.
January 14, 2017
Ok mystery about a quilt group that gets involved in solving murders. A little slow. This one highlighted spousal abuse as a subplot.
March 13, 2018
Another enjoyable book in this series.
August 30, 2019
An enjoyable read
May 10, 2022
Still an easy, fluff read, with lots of quilting references that I enjoy, but this one was kind of slow. Book 8 in the series is next.
March 6, 2017
The Loose Threads quilting group are asked by Harriet's Veterinarian friend, Aiden to see if they could quilt some animal quilts for a new extension for pets at the Women's Shelter. The quilting group is stunned as they are given a tour of the abused women's new quarters...bleak isn't the word. Being able to bring their beloved pets with them as they escape their torment will help, but, gray walls and windows high above eye level...yes they will be safe but it will be difficult to move onwards feeling they don't even warrant a nice surroundings.
Harriet and the other ladies get a shock when a fellow 'Loose Thread,' Sarah is admitted to the hospital as a victim of domestic abuse. Sarah, not the most friendly of persons, has been beaten and still she is hanging on to the fact that her abuser became her 'fiancé.' The ladies are further shocked when they are called by Sarah to help her and they find a dead fiancé next to her...
The shelter becomes Sarah's survival location and the ladies must figure out... who is the killer and why? Is Sarah being set up? And, what has the local nursing center have to do with everything?
This tale mixes quilting, good food, and a complicated emotional mystery that will have you learning about a subject that many rather ignore...Domestic Violence.
A well-structured murder mystery.
Harriet and the other ladies get a shock when a fellow 'Loose Thread,' Sarah is admitted to the hospital as a victim of domestic abuse. Sarah, not the most friendly of persons, has been beaten and still she is hanging on to the fact that her abuser became her 'fiancé.' The ladies are further shocked when they are called by Sarah to help her and they find a dead fiancé next to her...
The shelter becomes Sarah's survival location and the ladies must figure out... who is the killer and why? Is Sarah being set up? And, what has the local nursing center have to do with everything?
This tale mixes quilting, good food, and a complicated emotional mystery that will have you learning about a subject that many rather ignore...Domestic Violence.
A well-structured murder mystery.
March 16, 2015
I was disappointed in this book. I almost gave it 2 stars but felt that wouldn't be fair. I read this book after "The Country of Ice Cream Star" which was a complex, weird, and highly engrossing novel. So any novel after that one is probably going to suffer the comparison. That being said I also had high expectations of a cute escapist novel with a quilt and a cat on the front -- how perfect! Not!
I found that the novel jumps right in assuming you know all the characters from the previous books in the series. I do not, and there was not a couple page intro for new readers.
The characters seemed flat, clique prone and stereotyped. I was also very disappointed that the author seemed to "pick on" old people. At one point one of the characters referred to them as batty. I wasn't impressed! I also thought, with the setting in a senior center with a memory care unit, the author could have done some research on early dementia and really treated the subject with more grace and depth.
I didn't find myself caring for the characters either. I realized for the main character Harriet, I really didn't care how many boyfriends or significant others you have running around her orbit. I was also disappointed when I thought -- ahha the murderer is the one they are not talking about -- and I was right.... rats.
All that begin said, I enjoyed that the author knows quilting. The premise of the book is cute and obviously the characters are into their pets. I will probably start at the first novel when I'm in a light escapist mood and I will probably give that one more than the 2 stars I was thinking of for this one.
I found that the novel jumps right in assuming you know all the characters from the previous books in the series. I do not, and there was not a couple page intro for new readers.
The characters seemed flat, clique prone and stereotyped. I was also very disappointed that the author seemed to "pick on" old people. At one point one of the characters referred to them as batty. I wasn't impressed! I also thought, with the setting in a senior center with a memory care unit, the author could have done some research on early dementia and really treated the subject with more grace and depth.
I didn't find myself caring for the characters either. I realized for the main character Harriet, I really didn't care how many boyfriends or significant others you have running around her orbit. I was also disappointed when I thought -- ahha the murderer is the one they are not talking about -- and I was right.... rats.
All that begin said, I enjoyed that the author knows quilting. The premise of the book is cute and obviously the characters are into their pets. I will probably start at the first novel when I'm in a light escapist mood and I will probably give that one more than the 2 stars I was thinking of for this one.
June 21, 2015
This is the 6th in the series of Harrie and the loose thread quilting group. Harriet's sometime boyfriend Aiden is the town's vet, who is setting up an animal kennel for the women's shelter. He asks the loose threads to make quilts for the pets at the shelter. Sarah one of the loose thread group is beated by her fiance Seth. She refuses to go to the shelter until she wakes up beated next to Seth's body, Harriet has to figure out if Sarah is a victim or a killer, Since I had just read book 5 in the series it was nice to continue the story.
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