Marcy Singer owns the embroidery shop, The Seven-Year
Stitch, located in a small town in Oregon, Tallulah Falls.
She and her dog Angus are there nearly every day helping the
locals and the occasional tourist choose craft projects,
whether they are experienced or just beginning. Marcy's
personal life is going well, too, as things with her
boyfriend Ted Nash, a detective on the local police force,
have hit a steady rhythm.
The local museum is getting ready to host an exhibit for
antique tapestries and textiles, including some gorgeous
kilm rugs. The exhibit is well attended and it goes off
without a hitch, despite worries that an art thief may crash
the party. Thankfully, all goes well, and everyone is able
to enjoy a pleasant evening.
The next day, however, Marcy finds a dead body in the alley
behind her store. The body has been concealed with one of
the rugs from the exhibit, and from what Marcy is able to
see, it looks like the dead person may be an art professor
who was in town for the exhibit. And it turns out the art
professor may be the same person as the art thief that Ted
and Manu were look for.
As Marcy, once again, is the person to find a dead body,
she feels somewhat responsible for helping figure out who
the art professor is, why he was killed, and by whom.
However, before Ted and his colleagues can start to dig very
far into the investigation, an FBI agent enters the
investigation. Special Agent Floyd Brown of the Art Theft
Division of the FBI is uninterested in working together with
the police department, and it ends up that he has a chip on
his shoulder because the suspect in this case is "the one
that got away" from a previous case.
While Ted (with Marcy's able assistance, as always) tries
to wrap up this case with the FBI breathing down his neck,
Marcy is trying to figure out if their relationship is as
steady as she thought it was. Ted's mother makes a surprise
appearance in town, and she wants to get to know Marcy.
Marcy knows that she has to impress Ted's mother, as Ted's
ex-wife certainly didn't. But is there a reason that Ted
hadn't introduced two of them before this?
The mystery was executed well, and it was fun learning
about the world of art from a craftswoman's perspective.
The tension between local law enforcement and the FBI played
out well, and it didn't seem clichéd. Marcy's usually
capable and confident personality, though, seemed a little
off-kilter in the sub-plot concerning Ted's mom. This was
somewhat balanced by her being there to support Ted against
Brown, especially when she went up against Brown herself.
I'm looking forward to seeing Marcy being back to her more
confident self in the next instalment of the series!
Embroidery shop owner Marcy Singer is about to have the rug pulled out from under her.... Marcy can’t wait to see the new exhibit at the Tallulah Falls museum on antique tapestries and textiles, including beautiful kilim rugs. But her enthusiasm quickly turns to terror when, the day after the exhibition opens, she discovers a dead body behind her store, the Seven-Year Stitch, wrapped up in a most unusual fashion. The victim appears to be a visiting art professor in town for the exhibit. Did someone decide to teach the professor a lesson, then attempt to sweep the evidence under the rug? Along with her boyfriend, Detective Ted Nash, Marcy must unravel an intricate tapestry of deception to find a desperate killer.
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