Saturday, January 19, 2013

What is Amanda Lee reading?

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Amanda Lee, author of Thread on Arrival.

Her entry begins:
What is Amanda Lee currently reading? I’m reading Lavender Morning by Jude Deveraux. As a mystery writer, most of my reading tends to be in the mystery/thriller/suspense genre. I recently ran across a book sale and saw this book by Jude Deveraux. I thought, “I haven’t read any of her books in a long time.” This, even though she was one of my favorite authors. After staying up two nights in a row until the wee hours of the morning, I remember why Jude Deveraux...[read on]
About the book, from the publisher:
Embroidery shop owner Marcy Singer gets hung up on a tapestry that may lead to sunken treasure and be the motive for murder....

When Marcy’s friend Reggie, Tallulah Falls’ local librarian, asks her to teach an embroidery class as therapy for domestic abuse victims, she gladly agrees. One of the women wants to flee from her abusive husband but is afraid to leave her elderly father-in-law behind. And she thinks Marcy can help.

The elderly gentleman shows Marcy a tapestry his grandmother made, which he believes reveals the location of pirate treasure off the Oregon coast. He’ll move to a shelter—provided Marcy takes the tapestry to keep it safe. But when the police arrive the next day to escort him out, they find the old man murdered and the house ransacked. Does someone want that treasured tapestry desperately enough to kill for it?
Learn more about the book and author at Gayle Trent's website.

The Page 69 Test: Thread on Arrival.

Writers Read: Amanda Lee.

--Marshal Zeringue