The drowning pool remake 5 a star was because I wanted to see of my favorites Godwin and Jill mostly and in this one they were mostly banal background characters Godwin is usually part of the sleuthing and he is mostly there for exclamations until the end he is randomly redeemed I just felt that a lot of this book was fluff and padding Lots of unnecessary details and descriptions I did enjoy reading about punch needle The mystery seemed a bit obvious and I think any police officer could have wrapped it up much quickly The A HA moment was even trivial because there is NO WAY the police would not have thought of that first Once they knew the body was transported.

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And in site_link Fewer shout outs to designers and brand names and a little mystery and detecting would make this book so much better The original Monday bunch characters need to return to help with the mystery not just as filler Why keep Jill barefoot and pregnant when she and Betsey make such a fun detective team I hate Betsey s love interest and his songs When he went to the clubs to help her investigate he was ok but otherwise he was boring Monica Ferris This series does not seem to be written by the same author as when it started The dialogue is juvenile and boring Every single person introduced is described by their weight the short plump woman.

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In the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries Betsy Devonshire owner of the Crewel World needlework shop knows how to untangle even the most knotty of mysteries But a soggy murder case might have Betsy in over her head Even though running Crewel World keeps Betsy plenty busy a little extra cash on the side doesn t hurt So when the local senior complex Watered Silk asks her to teach a class on the tricky punch needle technique Betsy jumps at the opportunity to win over some new customers. The drowning spool epub vk Unfortunately the business that Betsy drums up is not of the needlework variety A young woman is found floating in Watered Silk s therapy pool and Betsy s sleuthing skills are immediately called upon to figure out who drowned her But the list of suspects is twisted than any Betsy has encountered before The young woman had three lovers each with a motive for the murder. Drowning pool topic It s up to Betsy to sort out the snarl of romantic entanglements and find a killer or the wrong man is bound to get pinned for a crime he didn t commit FREE EMBROIDERY PATTERN INCLUDED The Drowning Spool A Needlecraft Mystery 17 I always enjoy Betsy Devonshire s adventures Monica gave us a twist in the end that I didn t see coming they definitely would have checked for fibers and such in the suspect s cars There s no reason Betsy should have come up with this scheme herself I read this series in a random order and I think I need to go back to the beginning because I think those are well done Monica Ferris It always amazes me how an author of a long running series can keep each new book fresh How they are able to find new ways to commit the crimes and come up with new locations and settings But in this seventh installment of her Needlecraft Mystery series author Monica Ferris does just that. Pdf the drowning spool novel THE DROWNING SPOOL was a well written mystery that kept me engaged and guessing I had no idea who had perpetrated the crime until it was revealed Ms Ferris has a knack for creating visual stories This book was filled with vivid descriptions making me feel as though I was in each situation with the story s heroine Betsy Devonshire There is a fun Embroidery pattern for needlecraft lovers But be assured you do not need to know needle work to enjoy this book Monica Ferris Just OK Kind of predictable and the ending seemed rushed and incomplete Monica Ferris Betsy Devonshire such a smart woman and she tries so hard to keep her sister s legacy Crewel World alive No matter what she does she always seems to find herself in the middle of a murder mystery Monica Ferris Has published as site_link Mary Monica Pulver real name Mary Kuhfeld site_link Margaret Frazer with Gail Frazer from the authors own website Mary Monica Pulver her maiden name is an incidental Hoosier Terre Haute Indiana had the hospital closest to her parents home in Marshall Illinois She spent the later part of her childhood and early adult life in Wisconsin graduating from high school in Milwaukee She was a journalist in the U. The drowning pool 1975 ok ru S Navy for six and a half years two in London and later attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison She is married to a museum curator Mary Monica sold her first short story Pass the Word to Alfred Hitchcock s Mystery Magazine in 1983 and has since sold than two dozen short stories to anthologies and Has published as site_link Mary Monica Pulver real name Mary Kuhfeld site_link Margaret Frazer with Gail Frazer from the author s own website Mary Monica Pulver her maiden name is an incidental Hoosier Terre Haute Indiana had the hospital closest to her parents home in Marshall Illinois She spent the later part of her childhood and early adult life in Wisconsin graduating from high school in Milwaukee She was a journalist in the U. The drowning pool 2024 S Navy for six and a half years two in London and later attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison She is married to a museum curator Mary Monica sold her first short story Pass the Word to Alfred Hitchcock s Mystery Magazine in 1983 and has since sold than two dozen short stories to anthologies and magazines including some in Germany England Italy and France She has appeared in such anthologies as The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Shakespearean Mysteries Royal Whodunnits Unholy Orders Murder Most Crafty and Silence of the Loons Her first mystery novel Murder at the War appeared from St Martin s Press in 1987 and was nominated for an Anthony as Best First Novel The Unforgiving Minutes and Ashes to Ashes followed in 1988 but Original Sin was sold to Walker who also presented the fifth book Show Stopper in May of 1992 Berkley Diamond brought these mysteries out in paperback They feature detective Peter Brichter a cop one reviewer said was a hardboiled sleuth who s somehow landed in a cozy mystery Berkley published six medieval mysteries Mary Monica wrote in collaboration with Gail Frazer under the pseudonym Margaret Frazer The Novice s Tale The Servant s Tale nominated for an Edgar as Best Original Paperback of 1993 The Outlaw s Tale The Bishop s Tale The Boy s Tale and The Murderer s Tale The detective in the mysteries is a nun Dame Frevisse a niece by marriage of Thomas Chaucer the legendary Geoffrey s son The stories take place in England in the 1430s Gail presently continues the series alone In 1998 Mary Monica began writing a new series for Berkley featuring amateur needleworking sleuth Betsy Devonshire Set in Excelsior Minnesota Crewel World came out in March and was followed by Framed in Lace A Stitch in Time Unraveled Sleeve A Murderous Yarn Hanging by A Thread Cutwork Crewel Yule Embroidered Truths Sins and Needles Knitting Bones Thai Die Blackwork and Buttons and Bones Threadbare will appear in December of 2011 and she is at work on And Then You Dye The first six were paperback originals Subsequent books were hardcovers followed by paperback editions These light and traditional novels are written under the pseudonym Monica Ferris and all have gone to multiple printings the first one is in its eighteenth printing Mary Monica has taught courses on mystery writing to children at North Hennepin Community College gifted children in District 287 and adults at one evening seminars at Hennepin and Ramsey County libraries She does lectures and signings and has appeared on panels at mystery and science fiction conventions including Bouchercon Minicon Diversicon Magna Cum Murder and Malice Domestic She has spoken to stitchery guilds on local state and national levels She has won a place on national and local best seller lists including USA Today and the independent mystery bookstore compilation She is a member of Sisters in Crime a national organization that promotes women who write mystery fiction remains a paid speaker on the life of a mystery author and is a volunteer for Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation the tall slender man the obese woman really is that the only way you can describe people Also I don t need to know what everyone is wearing This book seems like a lot of fluff and very little substance And what was that one random chapter about coin collecting thrown in for Maybe while writing this book the author read the reviews of the last book and realized people don t care about Goddy s coin collecting boyfriend Remember back to the beginning of the series when Betsy found out she was an heiress I wish the author did she writes her as is every penny is a make or break for this woman I miss the interaction in the needlework shop and the description of designs and techniques Monica Ferris When her usual water aerobics pool undergoes renovation Betsy finds one she can use at an assisted living facility nursing home She meets many of the residents including one woman with Alzheimer s who always turns up a few minutes late saying Wait a minute Wait a minute Start over When the water aerobics instructor finds the body of a young pregnant woman in the pool the security guard who insists he let no one in loses his job The chief investigator for the case is quite rude although Betsy continues to feed her information to Mike The activities director asks Betsy to teach a needlework class and Betsy chooses punchneedle The woman comes to Betsy s class late as usual She later asks for a counted cross stitch kit but Betsy holds off on that after identifying the pattern the complexity of the design and the cost of materials until she can consult with the activities director The woman leads Betsy to the place the murderer likely gained entrance to the facilities and then turns up dead the next day Several viable lying suspects enhance the mystery but disappointment awaits those who enjoy time spent in the coziness of Betsy s Crewel World because little action occurs there. Types of drowning pdf I listened to the audio version narrated by Betsy Bronson While I didn t mind Betsy s voice many of the other voices were horrible I suggest people read this one in print Monica Ferris I ve been reading this mystery series since the first oneCrewel World and up until now I ve enjoyed them They re easy on the brain and a nice break from literary fiction Plus as a cross stitcher I ve enjoyed seeing some of the patterns that come with the book or learning about other techniques Punch needle was the needlework of choice in this one Betsy is completely unlikeable and seems to act without thought At one point she asks a woman about her husband s mistress Mind you she s never met this person before and the lady thinks she s there to see her scrapbooks or ask her to conduct a scrapbooking class In spite of her tactlessness Betsy s surprised when she s threatened physically Don t waste your time Monica Ferris Who wrote this book I ve enjoyed this series up until now They re always unrealistic sure but the local setting and the relationships of Betsy with Goddy and Connor and fairly clever plotting has made them fun reads This one has so many ridiculous coincidences so much wooden dialog important scenes that get cut off and then just summarized later interspersed with scenes telling in excruciating detail what DMC floss colors someone is changingugh And Betsy is suddenly someone with absolutely NO skill in interpersonal communications Her conversations with people are painful I made it about 3 4 of the way through and finally gave up Realized I really didn t care who killed Teddy And the narrator of the audio version is painful too Monica Ferris

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Made it really special I m a stitcher and totally snoopy too It was worth the wait Monica Ferris 3. Into the drowning deep pdf 5 starsI really enjoy the characters in this series and one of the reasons that this lost