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Second Treasures Mysteries #3
Hanging By a Thread
The evidence hangs on threads from a garment in Laura Keene’s thrift shop, a suit less than a year old but belonging to a young man who has left town, or so everyone thinks. During the town’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, a terrible discovery is made, and a story of blackmail, jealousy and greed are brought to light in the third installment of Margaret Evans's thrilling Second Treasures Mysteries, “Hanging By a Thread.”
318 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 7, 2017
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About the author
Margaret Evans
29 books10 followersA native of the Washington, D.C., area, Margaret Evans is a graduate of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. Her numerous short stories and humorous philosophical essays have appeared in literary magazines and journals, including Fullosia Press, Prose Toad, ken*again, Underground Window, Palabras Press, and Ascent Aspirations.
She is the author of 11 full-length mystery and action/adventure novels, including The Sixth World, Trial in Jade: The Mayan Return , and Kingdom Come: The Mayan Answer (the Maya Earth Trilogy); and a standalone thriller entitled The Lethal Limit ; Seven Cozy Mysteries: Twice Sold Murder; Priced to Kill; Hanging By a Thread; A Dress to Die For; Deadly Cost of Goods; and All Sales Final (The Second Treasures Mysteries Series); and The Harmony of Revenge (Book #1 of Shady Elm Inn Cozy Mysteries).
With the upcoming Laura Keene Cozy Mysteries series (spinoff from The Second Treasures Mysteries), Evans has created three "bridge" novellas: Empress Isabella and the Halloween Caper; Empress Isabella's Disastrous Thanksgiving; and Empress Isabella and a Cracklin' Christmas.
Evans also penned six mystery/thriller/crime novellas: A Canvas of Deceit; Code of Treachery; Hostages to Murder; The Curse of the Mandreill Dagger; The Secret of Kenning Hall; and The Tao of Murder.
Evans also has two treatises due out in 2021: Worse Than the Princess and the Pea: Sensitive People in an Insensitive World; and Wants, Needs, and Genes: Cultural and Ethical Thoughts, with more coming, as well as a short story/flash fiction/ and poetry collection coming out in early 2022.
She is the author of 11 full-length mystery and action/adventure novels, including The Sixth World, Trial in Jade: The Mayan Return , and Kingdom Come: The Mayan Answer (the Maya Earth Trilogy); and a standalone thriller entitled The Lethal Limit ; Seven Cozy Mysteries: Twice Sold Murder; Priced to Kill; Hanging By a Thread; A Dress to Die For; Deadly Cost of Goods; and All Sales Final (The Second Treasures Mysteries Series); and The Harmony of Revenge (Book #1 of Shady Elm Inn Cozy Mysteries).
With the upcoming Laura Keene Cozy Mysteries series (spinoff from The Second Treasures Mysteries), Evans has created three "bridge" novellas: Empress Isabella and the Halloween Caper; Empress Isabella's Disastrous Thanksgiving; and Empress Isabella and a Cracklin' Christmas.
Evans also penned six mystery/thriller/crime novellas: A Canvas of Deceit; Code of Treachery; Hostages to Murder; The Curse of the Mandreill Dagger; The Secret of Kenning Hall; and The Tao of Murder.
Evans also has two treatises due out in 2021: Worse Than the Princess and the Pea: Sensitive People in an Insensitive World; and Wants, Needs, and Genes: Cultural and Ethical Thoughts, with more coming, as well as a short story/flash fiction/ and poetry collection coming out in early 2022.
Visit Margaret's Web Site for links to her fiction and non-fiction stories plus the pipeline of stories to come!
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November 13, 2020
There is no way readers cannot be fans of the Second Treasures Mystery series by Margaret Evans. Once you read the first book, Twice Sold Murder, she leaves readers with unanswered questions that make it a must to return to the series with Priced to Kill, the second book and so on. And Hanging By a Thread, the third book in this series will leave readers with main character Laura Keene coming to a realization with the last line of the book......but the answer to that realization will not be revealed until the fourth book......we hope !!
In the Second Treasures Mystery series Laura Keene has moved back to her hometown of Raging Ford in Minnesota after she left 11 years ago when her parents were murdered and she moved to live with her great-aunt Rose. After her great-aunt died she decided to move back home where she opened up Second Treasures, a thrift shop. She also lives above the store and has reconnected with some close friends and has taken one of those friendships to the next level. Laura and Sergeant Connor Fitzpatrick had been best buds growing up and now that she has moved back home and they are adults, they have decided to start dating and see where that leads.....if only Laura can stay out of murder investigations.
In Hanging By a Thread the town is getting ready to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and Laura is doing a lot inside the store to promote the holiday. She is also still preparing taxes for some people as well as being on the St. Patrick's Day celebration committee. She always has a lot on her plate but when a sports jacket appears in a bag for donation at her front door and the jacket is a custom made jacket with the owner's name being that of a local man that worked at the bank but disappeared 2 years ago, you know Laura is going to have to find answers. And, of course, Connor cannot help her because it is an open investigation. When another employee from the bank is reported missing and the supervisor looks into the employees work log, she finds some very questionable activity.
Even when Laura tries to stay out of things, it seems she has a magnetic pull and she can't seem to turn her brain off from thinking about things and trying to find answers to questions......no matter how many times Connor begs her to stop.
No only is Laura continuing to find out what happened to her parents and who killed them with every book, there is also a "new" case to help solve and when the police make her a police consultant, the door is wide open for her to help the police.
I love this series and the fact that Evans always leaves readers with a cliff hanging finish guaranteeing that you will be back to read the next book and with Hanging By a Thread the last 3 sentences will leave you speechless and shocked !!! I cannot get to A Dress to Die For fast enough !!!
In the Second Treasures Mystery series Laura Keene has moved back to her hometown of Raging Ford in Minnesota after she left 11 years ago when her parents were murdered and she moved to live with her great-aunt Rose. After her great-aunt died she decided to move back home where she opened up Second Treasures, a thrift shop. She also lives above the store and has reconnected with some close friends and has taken one of those friendships to the next level. Laura and Sergeant Connor Fitzpatrick had been best buds growing up and now that she has moved back home and they are adults, they have decided to start dating and see where that leads.....if only Laura can stay out of murder investigations.
In Hanging By a Thread the town is getting ready to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and Laura is doing a lot inside the store to promote the holiday. She is also still preparing taxes for some people as well as being on the St. Patrick's Day celebration committee. She always has a lot on her plate but when a sports jacket appears in a bag for donation at her front door and the jacket is a custom made jacket with the owner's name being that of a local man that worked at the bank but disappeared 2 years ago, you know Laura is going to have to find answers. And, of course, Connor cannot help her because it is an open investigation. When another employee from the bank is reported missing and the supervisor looks into the employees work log, she finds some very questionable activity.
Even when Laura tries to stay out of things, it seems she has a magnetic pull and she can't seem to turn her brain off from thinking about things and trying to find answers to questions......no matter how many times Connor begs her to stop.
No only is Laura continuing to find out what happened to her parents and who killed them with every book, there is also a "new" case to help solve and when the police make her a police consultant, the door is wide open for her to help the police.
I love this series and the fact that Evans always leaves readers with a cliff hanging finish guaranteeing that you will be back to read the next book and with Hanging By a Thread the last 3 sentences will leave you speechless and shocked !!! I cannot get to A Dress to Die For fast enough !!!
May 29, 2019
If you look back at my reviews you’ll see that I often read the first book in the series, and even if I enjoyed it, never seem to read any more. Not because I don’t want to, but because there needs to be more time in the day. But with Margaret Evans’, Second Treasure Mysteries, I find the time because I enjoy them so much.
There’s just a touch of the supernatural, and I do love me some ghostly going ons. There’s mysteries inside of the mystery, which Evans has seemed to have perfected, since each books gives you numerous ones to figure out. And because she’s such a master at this, you find yourself excitedly waiting for the next book to come out so you can find out what happens next.
And with the next book in the series, A Dress to Die For, coming out in June, I’ll be able to see if Laura makes any more progress on her parents death. Is it June yet?!?
The town Laura lives in, Raging Ford, is some place I would love to visit. All the quaint shops that Evans describes and the colorful townspeople, would help to make for a wonderful visit… as long as I didn’t get murdered while I was there!
In Hanging by a Thread, Evans gives us so much more development with Laura, her friends, boyfriend, and more of the people in town. Maybe by the sixth book, I’ll finally learn all the secrets that the town’s insurance salesman has hidden in his closet.
I highly recommend this series, and am excited to see what Evans has in store for her next book, A Dress to Die For.
There’s just a touch of the supernatural, and I do love me some ghostly going ons. There’s mysteries inside of the mystery, which Evans has seemed to have perfected, since each books gives you numerous ones to figure out. And because she’s such a master at this, you find yourself excitedly waiting for the next book to come out so you can find out what happens next.
And with the next book in the series, A Dress to Die For, coming out in June, I’ll be able to see if Laura makes any more progress on her parents death. Is it June yet?!?
The town Laura lives in, Raging Ford, is some place I would love to visit. All the quaint shops that Evans describes and the colorful townspeople, would help to make for a wonderful visit… as long as I didn’t get murdered while I was there!
In Hanging by a Thread, Evans gives us so much more development with Laura, her friends, boyfriend, and more of the people in town. Maybe by the sixth book, I’ll finally learn all the secrets that the town’s insurance salesman has hidden in his closet.
I highly recommend this series, and am excited to see what Evans has in store for her next book, A Dress to Die For.
September 19, 2021
So Much Detail
This is a great murder mystery! Actually, it took me a while to read because I had so many emotions while reading it. I wanted to know what was going to happen next, but on the other hand, was a bit wary to do so. Well plotted and detailed, one of the best series of cozy mysteries I have read in a long time. A bit of romance rounds out an excellent tale with enough "red herrings" to keep the reader guessing until the big reveal!
This is a great murder mystery! Actually, it took me a while to read because I had so many emotions while reading it. I wanted to know what was going to happen next, but on the other hand, was a bit wary to do so. Well plotted and detailed, one of the best series of cozy mysteries I have read in a long time. A bit of romance rounds out an excellent tale with enough "red herrings" to keep the reader guessing until the big reveal!
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