Lydia is starting a new life after a painful divorce by working at a fabric store in a small town in Georgia. She has been reluctant to reenter the dating scene, but after her first awkward date with Brandon, the guy next door, he turns up dead in his apartment. Lydia discovers that she is the top suspect, and so decides she needs to solve the mystery to keep herself out of a life sentence in prison. As she starts to talk to people around the close-knit town, she soon discovers that there is more than one person who had a motive to kill Brandon. It is hard to think one of her new friends is a murderer, but it is hard to deny that it had to be someone within her own friend circle. Can she figure out who it is before she is sent to jail by default?
I have read several "baking" mysteries and this book seems to have the same vibe, but with sewing instead of baking. It was alright. It is in every way a "cozy" mystery, with a lot of the people being really nice to each other, except for the killer, of course. Bailey does a pretty good job introducing the reader to all the quirky people in the village. The author sets up plenty of suspects, with plenty of clues. I wondered if the book would have sewing projects at the end of each chapter instead of recipes like they have in the baking mysteries. It didn't, but it did describe some sewing projects in the book that would be interesting to try. (272, 273) p
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