Fabric shop owner Polyester Monroe can get tangled up in textiles, but it’s murder that really throws her for a loop in the latest mystery from the national bestselling author of Crushed Velvet.
The time has come for San Ladrón, California’s annual Miss Tangorli beauty pageant, and Poly has agreed to use Material Girl’s inventory of shimmery silks to create embellished gowns fit for a crown. But when millionaire Harvey Halliwell—the man who revived the city’s citrus trade with his imported tangorli tree—is found dead days before the pageant contestants are announced, something sour takes over the town.
To make matters worse, her friend, mechanic Charlie Brooks, is soon caught up in the crime, having been seen in the company of the case’s prime suspect. Now Poly’s on a mission to squeeze out the truth. But as she searches for a pattern, the killer seems intent on cutting up the evidence...
I have only one complaint about this book, it is currently the last in the series! This is fun and frightening and I want to read more.
Poly Monroe is in the thick of it again, she has come up against a local business (well mega business!) and the owner's first in command has suddenly got Poly agreeing to be part of the local beauty pageant! not IN it (she is pleased to say) but providing silk for the dresses for the 20 young women who are the finalists, she also has to make the dresses (the young women are designing them) and then there will be a vote for the winning dress - separate to the vote for the pageant winner, so she needs to call on her ex-boss Giovanni to borrow his seamstresses! (he agrees, provided he can reproduce the winning dress for his Prom Line).
So far so good, but nothing in Poly's life seems to go that smoothly, there seems to be a mix-up over the contestants, the millionaire mega citrus fruit business owner is dead, well murdered, there is a freeze on his company accounts and Poly's next door neighbours in the Antique store are not happy about the pageant. Oh and her friend Charlie is being secretive, so Poly needs to sort all this out! (on the plus side Giovanni's "girls" are more than happy to be working with her again, even if it is just for a couple of days .... oh and a local tailoress by the name of Jun want's to help out as well!) This was a page turner from start to finish!
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