Angie's first auction may turn out to be her last--when she bids on a coat of arms that someone would literally kill to possess . . .
Tagging along to an estate sale with her fellow Needlepointer, antiques shop owner Sarah Byrne, Angie Curtis impulsively bids on a tattered embroidery of a coat of arms. When she gets her prize back home to Haven Harbor, she discovers a document from 1757 behind the framed needlework--a claim for a child from a foundling hospital. Intrigued, Angie is determined to find the common thread between the child and the coat of arms.
Accepting her reporter friend Clem Walker's invitation to talk about her find on the local TV news, Angie makes an appeal to anyone who might have information. Instead, both women receive death threats. When Clem is found shot to death in a parking lot, Angie fears her own life may be in jeopardy. She has to unravel this historical mystery--or she may be the next one going, going . . . gone . . .
Ms Wait has crafted a tale of Murder and History that keeps you turning the pages until you sigh and put the book down when you have finished!
It is still the Winter Season in Maine and Sarah is headed to various auctions to get stock for her Antique Shop for later in the year, on this occasion Angie goes along with her to see what is happening, and to have a look at the Samplers that are up for auction. Angie ends up buying a badly damaged stitched Coat of Arms as it caught her interest, when she takes the frame off to check if it could possibly be repaired she comes across a fascinating document. When she meets her friend Clem (a local TV reporter) a few days later they end up discussing it and Clem thinks this could be an interesting human interest story and so a short segment is filmed which ends with asking if anyone has any information to contact the TV station. No-one comes forward with information, but someone does leave a death threat re Clem and Angie. When Clem is shot and killed and then someone tries to blow up Angie's car Angie needs to go into hiding whilst the Needlepointers search down clues to help the Police catch a killer.
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