Embroidered Truths

By: Monica Ferris

Narrated by: Melissa Hughes

Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

After her good friend Godwin has a nasty quarrel with John, his significant other, full-time needlework shop owner and part-time sleuth Betsy Devonshire finds herself with a roommate. Betsy doesn't mind having company, though Godwin is restless and unhappy over the sudden break-up. But sadness turns to grief when Betsy and Godwin discover John dead in his home, and Godwin is arrested for the murder. Betsy knows her friend couldn't be the killer, and sets out to prove it. What she learns is that John had a cat's cradle of secret dealings that had made him a bundle of money, and a lot of enemies. Now, Betsy has to untangle a web of lies if she's going to save Godwin--and find the murderer.

©2005 Mary Monica Kuhfeld (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks America

My only complaint

My only issue is that the narrator mispronounced all the city names.
I also wish there was more difference between voices.

Fan

Very that John didn’t leave Goddy anything more than he did, that was disappointing after the years they had been together. Ready for the next book.

Good, but bad pronouciation by the narrator

Love the books, but the narrator pronounces Aida cloth wrong and Wayzata wrong. I mean, really, do they do any research on pronouncing items? That might be a good thing to actually ask the author or someone familiar with the subject! Hmmmm

never saw it coming

Love the way these stories unfold. Took quite some time to put the clues together. Wonderful mystery.

another GR8 MYSTERY

terrific story. still need to work on pronouncing MN towns- but still keeps me in the backyard

Not impressed first time, loved it the second time

Well, this is odd. I already reviewed this book. I came back to this series to finish listening to it. I am an avid cross stitcher and listen to audiobooks whilst stitching. I didn't know exactly which book I read last and the description of this book didn't ring any bells. I had started further down in the series as this book was marked as finished. But ended up listening to it -again- as I just had no recollection of it. And I loved it. The murder story wasn't too impressive and it all wrapped up a little too quick all of a sudden, I could have done with a more developed ending, but I loved all the chitchat about the store that it didn't really matter. As it's light fare it didn't matter as it's the perfect book to listen to while stitching. Had I only been listening I wouldn't have liked it nearly as much. Many books are a little too complicated when stitching as I stitch very complex patterns that require a lot of my attention. Probably a good book for a car ride too. If you don't like stitching you probably won't like this series. If you're an addict like me it's so much appreciated that there finally is something for us (we have very limited merchandise in the box stores, generally there's floss and a few patterns and that's it) as we're a dying breed sadly enough. Most people just have no idea that there's so much out there online geared to younger people, that it's no longer just for old ladies. You would be amazed at what's being sold. In any event, I enjoyed this book.

Godwin

I really don’t like the new readers voice for him, he makes Godwin sound like he’s 4.

And enjoyable story

If you could sum up Embroidered Truths in three words, what would they be?

Enjoyable cozy mystery

What was one of the most memorable moments of Embroidered Truths?

When the cat tried to comfort Betsy. Also when Betsy realized a friend might be in serious trouble.

Have you listened to any of Melissa Hughes’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I think this is the first time I've heard a book by Melissa Hughes. It is hard for a new narrator to come into the series. However, I think she did a very good job.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Each book in the series is fairly short. This makes it easy to listen to them in one sitting. I enjoyed this book while running errands and cleaning house today. It made an otherwise boring day move swiftly and enjoyably along.

Embroidered Truths

I really enjoyed this cozy. I needed a easy story to read after reading all the books that are more complicated

Great Mystery

Love all the characters in Monica Ferris' books.

All the referrals to needlework, makes me remember all my friends (living and passed.)