Terri Thayer will be one of the special guests on Quilt Camp at Sea's 2012 Mexican Riviera Cruise (The Girls Just Want To Have FUN cruise!!) Sailing roundtrip from San Diego, California March 10-17, 2012
This cruise is included on Quilt Camp at Sea's Collector's Cruise (our 20th Quilting Cruise Celebration!!) itinerary that will sail March 10-31, 2012 and will include both the 2012 Mexican Riviera and 2012 Hawaii Spring Fling cruises!!
Detailed information about the 2012 Mexican Riviera cruise and the 2012 Collector's cruise featuring Terri Thayer can be found on the links below:
About special guest author, Terri Thayer
In addition to being a mystery writer, Terri has been quilting for more then twenty years. She has taught quilting, worked in a retail shop and at conventions like the one featured in her book Wild Goose Chase. Working with fabric led to rubber stamps and a fascination with art quilts, and using words in quilts. Terri is a transplanted East Coaster. Originally from Niagara Falls, she lived on Long Island and in Northeast Pennsylvania. For the past ten years, happy to leave the snow and ice to heartier stock, Terri has made Northern California her home and is a member of the Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. Terri’s novels include Wild Goose Chase, Old Maid’s Puzzle, Ocean Waves (published in 2009), and her stamping sisters mystery series including Stamped Out, Inked Up, and (to be released in August 2010) False Impressions. Synopsis of Terri’s quilting and stamping mystery series:
Wild Goose Chase: Wild Goose Chase is the first book in the Quilting Mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Dewey Pellicano. A computer techie by trade, Dewey Pellicano would rather swallow needles than be pinned down to a life of quilting. But when her mother passes away, Dewey must exchange code for calico as the new proprietress of Quilter Paradiso. Between learning the business and dealing with a conniving employee who is also her sister-in-law, Dewey is ready to snap. During a national quilt show, quilting celebrity Claire Armstrong offers to buy the shop. But before Dewey can accept, she finds the famous quilter lying dead on the floor—a bloody rotary cutter at her side. When hunky homicide detective Buster Healy enters the scene, romance flourishes... until another murder takes place. Can Dewey thread together the pieces to this murderous pattern before the killer strikes again?
Old Maid’s Puzzle: Thirty-year-old techie Dewey Pellicano is trying to make a go of Quilter Paradiso, the quilt shop she inherited from her mother. But she's facing a patchwork of problems—fierce competition, an uncooperative employee (who also happens to be Dewey's sister-in-law) and, oh yes, a dead body in the alley. Dewey pins her hopes on the store's huge 20th anniversary sale and appearance on national television. With the help of her smolderingly hot detective boyfriend Buster Healy, can Dewey save her shop and find the killer?
Ocean Waves: Quilt shop owner Dewey Pellicano intends to mix business with pleasure at the Sewing-by-the-Sea Symposium in Asilomar, California. But her plan is ruined by Mercedes Madsen, the militant conference organizer who acts more like a dictator than a director. Now tangled up in a bundle of trouble, Dewey is facing a notorious "ghost," a mysterious missing woman, a stolen heirloom sewing box, and a mountain lion on the loose. . . and that's before she stumbles across the dead body. Armed only with blueprint fabric and her wits, Dewey must try to find a pattern in this crazy quilt of a murder mystery.
Stamped Out (First in the Stamping Sisters mystery series, featuring small-town stampers who are sure to leave their mark): A professional rubber stamper who creates intricate patterns on walls, April Buchert is back home in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, helping her father restore the famous Winchester mansion. But when a human skull tumbles out of the rubble, all eyes are on April’s father, who oversaw the construction twenty years ago. As unexplained deaths pile up and a dangerously handsome carpenter becomes a pleasant distraction, can April chip away at the truth before another innocent victim is stamped out?
Inked Up: Halloween is scarier than ever in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, when professional rubber stamper April Buchert discovers a dead body in a "haunted" corn maze. The police suspect the victim's husband murdered her, but April knew the couple, and she and the Stamping Sisters are determined to find the real killer before he catches another in his murderous motif. Terri’s third book in the stamping mystery series False Impressions will be published in August 2010.
Praise for Terri Thayer's Wild Goose Chase "Cutting-edge drama deftly sliced to reveal the sass beneath the surface of the quilting business." —Margaret Miller, author of AnglePlay Blocks "Put down your piecework, brew yourself a cup o'Joe, fill up a snack bowl, and laze around the yard this spring with this amusing quilt-themed mystery." —Mark Lipinski Praise for Stamped Out from Publishers Weekly: “Packed full of family drama and small-town charm, Thayer's enjoyable mystery series debut outshines most other crafting cozies. After her marriage crumbles and her interior decoration career deteriorates, April Buchert returns to her hometown of Aldenville, Pa., in search of a new beginning. She's helping her father, Ed, on an extensive restoration project when a skull tumbles from the rubble of an old building. Ed was in charge of the building's construction and demolition; a cop with a grudge now thinks he's a killer, and April must clear his name. The only bright spot in April's new life is the Stamping Sisters, a group of fellow craftswomen who support her when she feels like everything's coming apart. Twists and turns keep the story fresh and compulsively readable, and the characters feel like family by the time the last page is turned. Thayer and the Stamping Sisters are worth keeping an eye on.”
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