Old Douglas Fir timbers bring good money, but maybe not as much as keeping quiet about the story of a murder.
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About the Book
Stitch X For Murder
Stitches In Crime Book Five
by A.C.F. Bookens
Print/eBook
Published 9 November 2021
Page Count: 176
Audiobook
Published 1 August 2022
Andilit, Audiobook Empire
Narrator: Aven Shore
Length: 5 hours and 11 minutes
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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Old Douglas Fir timbers bring good money, but maybe not as much as keeping quiet about the story of a murder.
Paisley Sutton hates to see an old barn falling down, so when she has a chance to take in a crew of friends to salvage timbers, she goes in with gusto. But when they find the bones from a decades-old murder, Paisley begins to wonder if maybe some things should just be let go to ruins. Maybe some secrets need to stay buried.
If Paisley decides to salvage more than just wood and reveal the murderer, will she be the next body buried in a barn?
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My Review
My Rating: 4 Stars
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I was granted complimentary audiobook access to Stitch X for Murder by A.C.F. Bookens as part of my participation in a blog tour for this title with Audiobookworm Promotions. Thank you to all involved in affording me this opportunity! My thoughts are my own and my review is honest.
When Paisley Sutton decides to put a decaying old barn to better use she stumbles across a long-deceased body and with it the open secret of a not-so-forgotten murder that just about everyone in town besides Paisley already knows about. What’s up with that? Who dunnit?
This is such an interesting plot line that I honestly haven’t seen done in cozy mystery novels before, though it does seem like a season 5+ sort of episode idea for a crime procedural series. Maybe that’s why I liked it so much! This is the kind of odd little mystery that crops up while poor Dr. Reid has become addicted to drugs and the rookie hopeful from the FBI training program accidentally offers herself up to the neighbourhood killer.
I’m a newcomer to this series, so I do want to say it is completely accessible as a starting point. I’m sure there are fun little details about recurrent characters and such that might have landed differently if I’d read the previous four books first, but I didn’t feel like I was missing anything vital to the story nor did I feel like I didn’t get to know our protagonist.
I know (and love) that cozy mystery is much more about the whole picture snapshot of what’s going on in the protagonist’s life at the time the plot is taking place, not a deeply focussed thriller about just the main plot, but my one nit-pick about this book is that sometimes I forgot I was reading a mystery at all. Sometimes this felt like the rare “women’s fiction” that isn’t just a romance novel with a girl power message. It was fun all the way through, I loved spending time with Paisley and her circle, but sometimes I forgot what we were here to do.
About the Author
ACF Bookens loves a good mystery, a quaint bookshop, and a good cup of coffee. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where she takes joy in the mountain views and the quiet back roads. She lives with her son Milo and a beautiful rescue hound who inspired Mayhem in her St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery Series. Aslan, the cat in her books, is based on her departed first cat by that name, who spent an inordinate amount of time digging up her houseplants. In her books, Bookens addresses issues of justice and writes with intention to disrupt the white supremacy that says that “whiteness” is normal by making purposeful note of every character’s ethnicity. She is weary of books that assume everyone is white unless the author says otherwise because being white is not the default of reality. Her hope is that readers enjoy escaping into her stories and are challenged, just a little, to make themselves better people and the world a better place from the reading.
About the Narrator
Aven is an audiobook narrator living in her off-grid tiny house in rural Eastern Canada, surrounded by forest and chicken friends, and honeybees. She loves books so much she’s listening to one almost every minute she’s not narrating one (she narrates romance as Avie Paige). She narrates live on Discord with other romance narrators on the Haven server. She is longing to travel and hike in mountains again, and dreaming of sleep in the lava fields of Iceland under Northern lights again, her favorite place in the world. Her past lives include being a carpenter, firefighter, tax accountant, and competitive snowboarder.
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