I like mystery novels and I love Faire!
When I get a chance to combine the two, I’m even happier. A new novel by Joyce Lavene, just released this past week, sounds like just the thing to read on the plane as I head for Minnesota Renaissance Festival next week.
Wicked Weaves [A Renaissance Faire Mystery] by Joyce Lavene
Publisher: Penguin Group/Berkley Prime Crime | Date published: 09/09/2008
ISBN: 9781436259996Description
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.
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