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Suspicious Threads Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery #3 It’s hard to imagine anything really bad ever happening in picturesque Georgetown, Texas–until a famous face rolls into town and unthreads some very dark secrets. . . Virginia Davies Clark and members of the Bee Hive Quilt Bee and Chisholm Trail Quilt Guild, are all too familiar with the Greenwald estate. The Victorian mansion, known as “Borealis,” was owned by nationally famous quilter Ann North Greenwald, and sits now vacant just west of the city limits after the murder of Ann. Georgetown is abuzz with excitement when Hollywood actress, Natalie North arrives and announces she inherited “Borealis” and is selling off its old furnishings and renovating the mansion. A local developer and a local radical church group are shocked and will do anything to prevent Natalie from renovating it instead of selling it. And Virginia is intrigued when Natalie asks her to appraise…

Someone tried to kill a friend of Virginia Davies Clark in Virginia’s museum. The killers are after the gold, a mysterious Civil War era quilt, jade jaguar, and a ceremonial jade dagger her friend just inherited. More murders take place because of the old quilt and the inheritance. The list of suspects includes a university professor and a few relatives of Virginia’s friend. They all look suspicious and innocent at the same time. Tests on the gold indicate it came from Central America. Virginia’s examination of the quilt reveals it was made in the mid-1800s in Texas. It holds a hidden map to a Mayan golden temple in an unexplored area of jungle in southern Mexico and northern Guatemala. It is a fabled Mayan temple of gold and the city of gold–El Dorado. With the backing of the police and the Smithsonian Central Security Service, Virginia and her collogue and…