Murder by Vegetable: Baby Quilt (A Quilted Mystery) - Hardcover

Graham, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1432826212 ISBN 13: 9781432826215

Publisher: Five Star, 2012

Synopsis

Spring, with a full moon, arrives in tiny Park County, Tennessee and induces the well-named madness in its residents and visitors alike. Sheriff Tony Abernathy and his staff must slog through a morass of stupidity and bad behavior. The Ramp Festival at Sheriff Tony Abernathy's family's folk museum occurs during the peak of spring fever. The entertainment includes music, food --including the odiferous ramps --crafts and homemade weapons launching vegetables at rubber duckies floating in a stock tank. Chaos mixes with sudden death when a flying vegetable hits the unpopular game warden, Harrison Ragsdale, and he dies at the festival. Tony swore an oath to protect and serve everyone in his county. While he investigates, his wife Theo is busy running her quilt shop, raising their children and gathering clues at "gossip central." Stir in a growing roadside memorial, arson, a gala funeral, a little bank robbery and --like Theo's mystery quilt (pattern included) --eventually the solution is revealed.

About this title

From Booklist:

No one in tiny Park County, Tennessee, likes Harrison Ragsdale, also known as Hairy Rags, the game warden. Far from being a lover of animals, he seems to be connected to too many missing cats, poodles, and pet bears. During the Ramp Festival, he wanders into a field where hobbyists were firing vegetables with homemade weapon-launchers and promptly collapses, dead. Sheriff Tony Abernathy, aided by his wife, Theo, must sift through the abundance of likely suspects, as nearly everyone has a reason to be glad Rags is gone. Tony follows the trail around the county, using clues from the beer-fueled bragging at the local seedy bar and the coffee-driven gossip at Theo’s quilt shop. In this latest in Graham’s quilting series (Murder by Music: The Wedding Quilt, 2011), Tony carries the story, as Theo manages the couple’s twins. The supporting cast includes realistically quirky small-town characters, some recurring. As always, there is a mystery quilt—this time a baby quilt—and quilting instructions, along with clues, are scattered throughout the book. --Karen Muller

About this edition

• Publisher: Five Star
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1432826212
• ISBN 13: 9781432826215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288