Thread and Buried (Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series #9)

by Lea Wait

Overview

Haven Harbor is an authentic coastal Maine town—which makes it the perfect location for a new film production. But now it’s become the scene of a crime . . .
 
Needlepointers Angie and Sarah are helping with set design for the movie being shot in their little New England hometown—but as the lighthouse and the wharves bustle with activity, a real-life drama is about to unfold. The director, Marv Mason, has been harassing the pretty young female lead, and the two exchanged heated words at a lobster bake. Now someone’s lowered the boom on him . . .
 
After a wayward piece of sound equipment sends him to his death, theories fly about who went off-script. Meanwhile, a local woman’s tragic story about a true love lost at sea, which originally inspired the film, may lead to murderous revelations from long ago. Angie’s got to unravel these mysteries, and may need to give more than one killer the hook . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496716750
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	11/26/2019
Series:	Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series , #9
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	196,612
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 4.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Lea Wait lives on the coast of Maine. A fourth-generation antique dealer, and author of the Agatha-nominated Shadows Antique Print mystery series, she loves all things antiques and Maine, and she’s learning to do needlepoint. She also writes historical novels for young people set in (where else?) nineteenth-century Maine. Lea adopted her four daughters when she was single; she’s now the grandmother of eight. Find her at Facebook, Goodreads, and at www.leawait.com

Editorial Reviews

2019-09-02
A film crew brings drama to a Maine town when the lothario director is killed on set in what's definitely either an accident or murder.

Picturesque Haven Harbor has drawn a movie crew to film Harbor Heartbreak, and local needlepointer Angie Curtis has been tapped to help with the set design. Though she's not about to make a big deal about it, Angie's pretty sure she got the job through her boyfriend, Patrick West, whose mother, Skye, is a movie star slated for a big role in the film. Haven Harbor hasn't just been picked because it's pretty; it's also the original site for the maybe-true events of the story. Longtime resident Ruth Hopkins, who wrote the account the movie's based on before she learned that all the publishing dollars were in spicy romance novels, is on hand to help make her vision a reality. But the real driving force behind the film is director Marv Mason, who's put all his energy into ensuring the success of his stars, for example by showering the film's young lead actress, Cos Curran, with predatory romantic attention. Ick. Angie is on set one day when Marv is literally knocked off by a boom mic that pushes him backward off a rocky cliff. Though it's obvious that Marv wasn't well-loved, Angie wonders whether anyone hated him enough to kill him. Drawing on her background as a private eye and her experience solving crimes (Thread on Arrival, 2018, etc.), she questions the film's crew. She's certain the drama and death are coming from the outsiders, but which of them?

Reading Wait's Maine-centric cozy is like watching a movie on TV versus going to the theater: fine but not must-see.

Kirkus Reviews