Wicked Weaves (Renaissance Faire Mystery Series #1) by Joyce Lavene, Jim Lavene
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(Mass Market Paperback)
- Pub. Date: September 2008
- 272pp
- Sales Rank: 46,129
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 2008
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 272pp
- Sales Rank: 46,129
- Series: Renaissance Faire Mystery Series, #1
- ISBN-13: 9780425223307
- ISBN: 0425223302
Synopsis
First in the Renaissance Faire mystery series featuring craft apprentice and sleuth Jessie Morton.
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Assistant professor Jessie Morton spends her summers at the Renaissance Village honing her skills and finding the lady, lord, or serf whodunnit.
This summer Jessie is the apprentice to Mary Shift, a basket-maker with a dark past as well as incredible weaving skills. One day a man is bid a deadly fare-thee-well with Mary's signature weave around his neck. It's up to Jessie to spring Mary from the stocks of the Myrtle Beach police station. Yet innocence is hard to prove in a place where there's a fine line between reality and good theater—and history is bound to repeat itself.
Publishers Weekly
This jolly series debut from the husband-and-wife Lavene team serves up medieval murder and mayhem. USC doctoral candidate Jessie Morton studies medieval crafts every summer at Columbia, S.C.'s Renaissance Faire Village. While working with basket weaver Mary Shift, Jessie gets a shock when Mary's estranged husband, Joshua, is murdered in broad daylight. She quickly learns the actors at the Faire may be hiding more than their mundane lives. Jessie is certain that Mary is innocent of the murder, but also suspects the old weaver knows more than she's revealing. The situation becomes more complicated as secrets from Mary's turbulent past comes to light. Faire bailiff Chase Manhattan (whose hilarious name goes oddly unremarked) occasionally distracts Jessie with the promise of summer romance, but her focus is on solving the mystery. Fans of the Lavenes' Peggy Garden mysteries will appreciate Jessie's charm and determination as she sets out to clear her teacher's name. (Sept.)
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Mystery at the Ren Faireby Krystal_lazuli
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February 09, 2009: A decent story that isn't overly predictable. It offers a nice look at at Renaissance faire.
The Renaissance Faire mystery is the start of a new exciting amateur sleuth seriesby Anonymous
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July 07, 2008: Assistant Professor Jessie Morton has spent the school year teaching history and her summer moths apprenticing to an artisan at the Myrtle Beach Renaissance Village this time she is tutored by basket maker Mary Shift. Each summer she has a romantic fling, but so far not with the bailiff Chase, who she is attracted to she hopes this summer is their time together.----------- One day Jessie observes Mary arguing with a man who acts like he knows her intimately. Later she learns that a similar looking man is dead with one of Mary?s weaves tied tightly around his neck. The victim was her husband Joshua who tossed her out years ago his brother Abraham came to inform Mary that Josh is coming and she needs to send him home or he will be an outcast like her. Abraham had taken Jah, Mary?s son into his home and pretended the lad was his son who actually died. He claims that Mary killed him instead of nursed him. The police suspect Mary killed her spouse, but Jessie thinks otherwise. Chase helps her investigate and they soon find an additional suspect besides Mary, Abraham, and Jah but no evidence pointing to anyone except Mary.----------- The Renaissance Faire mystery is the start of a new exciting amateur sleuth series from the Lavene team known for their ?poisoned? Peggy Lee Garden tales. Part of the fun of this solid whodunit is the vivid description of a the Renaissance Village anyone who has not been to one will want to go as the Lavene duo makes it so enticing in fact they make their South Carolina based Faire sound similar to the delightful Georgia Renaissance Festival. The protagonist is an interesting graduate student who feels comfortable in her endeavors when she classifies them into neat compartments Chase refuses to be filed away as a summer fling as he wants more from her. The whodunit is cleverly developed so that four suspects linked to the basket weaver (Mary?s lover being the other) surface with motives while clues seemingly to only point to Jessie?s teacher.------------------- Harriet Klausner
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