Buried in Quilts

Joan Spencer #2

by Sara Hoskinson Frommer

Joan Spencer and the Oliver Civic Symphony are rehearsing The Unanswered Question when Joan finds a body. If you like quilts, music, and low-key mystery, this one will please. Deadly Pleasures

Genres: Mystery, Cozy, Fiction, Quilting

252 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was really a good read - a small village's Quilt Show becomes a murder scene - with all the town concerned as to what happened an Orchestra player takes a major role in helping to find the killer. You didn't have to know anything about music and or quilting to enjoy this well plotted, well written mystery story!

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Widowed Joan Spencer has lost a friend when Edna Ellett, one of the ladies at the senior center Joan runs in little Oliver, IN, dies. Edna's daughter Mary Sue involves Joan further in the family when she asks for help with the local quilt show, which includes a performance by the local symphony, for which Joan plays the viola. Joan's daughter, who left home several years ago, returns for an unexpected and much-welcomed visit, so Joan is very busy even before she discovers a body.

[Ellen Marchessault · Rating 3 out of 5]

Second in the Joan Spencer mystery series. Mary Sue Ellett is the victim at a quilt show in Oliver, Indiana. SPOILER ALERT!!! It was accidental by Mary Sue's mother's caregiver, her cousin Kitty. Motive: to protect her inheritance, an heirloom quilt with links to Nancy Hanks, mother of Abe Lincoln. Side stories involve the "theft" of two of the quilts in the show, one by Joan's daughter Rebecca (which is a double sleeping bag depicting Adam & Eve!)

[Jean · Rating 4 out of 5]

I very much enjoyed this book. The mystery plot was clever and unpredictable. It is based on a woman living in a very small town in IN. There is excellent character development of her daughter and son as well as other individuals in the community. The mystery centers around a Quilt Show and a family whose elderly mother has recently died leaving several quilts for her children.

[Joan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable cozy mystery with good characters.