Knot My Sister's Keeper (Quilting Mystery Series #6)

by Mary Marks

Overview

In tracing her ancestry, quilter Martha Rose discovers a ritzy half-sister, a stash of family secrets, and a decades-old mystery that only she can unravel . . .
 
Martha Rose is shocked to find she has a half-sister, especially one so different from her. Giselle Cole is wealthy, widowed, and lives a glamorous life in West Los Angeles. At least her grandmother was a quilter! But Giselle can’t answer Martha’s many questions about their father—he disappeared when she was only a child and the few clues left behind indicate he may have been murdered. So Martha and Giselle team up on an investigation that weaves them through the streets of L.A., their father’s hidden love affairs, and into some mysterious unfinished Cole family business . . .
 
Praise for Mary Marks and her Quilting Mysteries  

“A pleasurable and satisfying addition to any quilting mystery fan’s reading list. Recommend to those who cannot get enough of Terri Thayer, Elizabeth Craig, or Earlene Fowler.”
—Library Journal on Knot in My Backyard
 
“Readers will be surprised by the ending.”
—RT Book Reviews on Knot What You Think

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496701848
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	07/31/2018
Series:	A Quilting Mystery , #6
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	496,012
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Born and raised in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, Mary Marks earned a B.A. in Anthropology from UCLA and an M.A. in Public Administration from the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. In 2004 she enrolled in the UCLA Extension Writers Program. Her first novel, Forget Me Knot, was a finalist in a national writing competition in 2011. She is currently a reviewer of cozy mysteries for The New York Journal of Books at www.nyjournalofbooks.com. Readers can visit her at www.marymarksmysteries.com and www.facebook.com/mmarks2013.

Editorial Reviews

2018-05-15
The results of a DNA test change a woman's life.Quilting expert Martha Rose (Knot What You Think, 2017, etc.) never knew her father. Her mother lived in a world of her own, so Martha was raised by her grandmother and Uncle Isaac, who moved the family from Iowa to California to escape the stigma of Martha's illegitimate birth. All she knows of her father is that he was a redheaded artist whose first or last name was Quinn. A DNA test her daughter Quincy has sent her reveals that Martha is half Ashkenazi Jewish on her mother's side, the father's side mostly Irish and English. Martha soon learns that she has a half sister on her father's side, Giselle Cole, who agrees to meet her. Although Giselle is wealthy, outspoken, snobbish, and younger and thinner than Martha, they hit it off, and Martha is soon inviting Giselle to Friday night dinners with Uncle Isaac and her fiance, ATF agent Yossi Levy. While Giselle is learning about Martha's Jewish heritage, Martha finds out that their father, Jacob Quinn Maguire, was a famous artist who married Giselle's mother, left one day for a gallery opening in New York, and was never seen again. As they explore their shared background, the sisters discover that Quinn was quite a womanizer who may have fathered other children. Using her police connections to get information, Martha finds that the investigation into their father's disappearance was dropped quickly. She and Giselle suspect that his death was probably covered up, perhaps by Giselle's wealthy and powerful grandfather. Traveling the country in Giselle's family's private jet, they dig up plenty of information they hope will tell them whodunit and why.A mystery combined with wry humor.

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