All the regular Monday Bunch is at Betsy Devonshire'
needlework shop, Crewel Word, waiting for Doris Valentine
to get there and share her experiences from her trip to
Thailand. Doris is just over the moon telling about the
wonderful people she met, the great food she ate, and she
has brought back some silk floss for each of the Bunch.
She has also done a favor for an American she met over
there -- Doris is to deliver a box to an antique dealer in
St. Paul. Everyone wants to see what is in the box and
they discover it is a Buda, but not the sitting, big
stomach one. This one is standing with his hands
stretched upwards. He is also wrapped in a filthy rag,
which Doris throws in the trash and uses bubble wrap to
protect him.
After delivering the box to the dealer, who asks her about
some silk she knows nothing about, Doris goes on her way.
When she arrives back at her apartment, it has been
trashed. The police question her about her visit to the
antique dealer, as his shop has also been trashed, and he
has been murdered. A few days later, Doris is accosted by
a woman with a gun who wants to know where the silk is.
Soon, more bodies are piling up, and the missing silk seems
to be the key to everything.
Amateur sleuth Betsy decides she must step in and help her
friend. Where is the missing silk and what is its
importance? The answer is dizzying, and Betsy is soon
right in the middle of a life or death situation.
THAI DIE is a clever, fast-paced, cozy mystery with
fantastic characters, especially Betsy. This is the
twelfth book in this needlecraft series, and the stories
keep getting better and better, if possible. Returning
characters have grown with each tale, and it is so nice to
visit with them.
As full-time owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and
part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has become skilled at
weaving suspicious threads. But when one of her regulars
unwittingly becomes involved in a deadly delivery of
exotic antiquities, Betsy fears something is seriously
warped.
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