I enjoyed reading SILK STALKINGS, written by Diane Vallere. It is the third book in the Material Witness Mystery series and has a load of suspenseful events going on that will keep you stitched in placed until you finish. I love a book that can have that affect without losing the reader. The characters are likeable and some a little mysterious in their own ways. This is great to have in a series giving you more room for interesting plots in the future.

Polyester Monroe came to live in San Ladrón, California to reopen the family textile shop that she now calls Material Girl. She offers to help out with the annual beauty pageant by having the young women pick fabric from her shop for their dresses. Then she gets herself tangled up solving the murder mystery of the millionaire founder of the pageant, Harvey Halliwell. It turns out that maybe her friend Charlie might have some relations to one of the suspects.

The thing I love about mysteries is the twist at the end that you do not see coming. The ultimate surprise at the end! SILK STALKINGS most certainly has that. With all the different possibilities that I could come up with in my head I did not see what Diane Vallere had for the ending. At the end of the novel Vallere also leaves you with the directions to make you own garment bag!