I hope everyone had a nice, relaxing weekend with their family and friends. Elizabeth Lynn Casey is a pseudonym for Laura Bradford. She writes A Southern Sewing Circle Mystery series as well as An Amish Mystery series, An Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery series, and A Tobi Tobias Mystery series. A Southern Sewing Circle Mystery series starts with Sew Deadly and ends with Patterned After Death.
Patterned After Death by Elizabeth Lynn Casey is the twelfth (and final) book in The Southern Sewing Circle Mystery series. Librarian, Victoria
“Tori” Sinclair lives in Sweet Briar, South Carolina with her elementary school
teacher husband, Milo. Tori’s car is on the fritz and Margaret Louise
tells Tori take it over to her son, Jake Davis.
Milo and Tori are going out after dinner to check on Rose Winters and
stop by Jake’s garage. Jake is working
on a fancy silver car, but takes time out to show them around the newly
expanded garage. Tori notices the trunk
of the silver car ajar and goes to close it.
A piece of fabric is in the way and as she tucks it inside the car, Tori
touches a hand. Inside the trunk is Jake’s
new business partner, Noah Madden. People
in town were surprised when Noah and Jake went into business together. The town has been split since the two men
were rival quarterbacks in high school (over eighteen years prior). Unfortunately, the evidence is stacked
against Jake, and he is arrested for Noah’s murder. Margaret Louise is extremely distraught and
she asks Tori to find the real killer.
Tori starts asking questions and gathering clues so she can get Jake out
of jail and back to his family. Tori’s
attention is split, though, with Rose being under the weather. Tori
is worried and cannot bear to lose the dear woman. The members of the sewing circle will need to
band together to help their friends during their time of need and to capture a
murderer.
Patterned After Death is
well-written and has a good pace which made the book easy to read. It contains delightful, friendly characters
and a welcoming, Southern town. It was
wonderful to catch up with Tori, Milo, Rose, Margaret Louise, Leona, Georgina,
Charles, and the other members of sewing circle (and town). I have read this series from the beginning
and each book is better than the previous one (Wedding Duress is my favorite). Patterned After Death has a sweet ending that
will delight admirers of the series.
While Patterned After Death can be read alone, I recommend reading the series
in order. You can watch the characters (and
their relationships/friendships) grow and develop over the course of the
series. I give Patterned After Death 5 out of 5
stars. I thought that the mystery was
well-crafted. There is a good twist that
will surprise many readers. The whodunit
can be solved, but not easily (my favorite type). Elizabeth Lynn Davis took various elements
and stitched them together into one engaging, heartwarming cozy mystery. I am sorry to see this charming cozy mystery
series come to end.
I hope you have a delightful day. I will be sharing my thoughts about Mocha and Murder by Tonya Kappes next time. Take care and Happy Reading!
Kris
The Avid Reader
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