quilting

Whispering Threads, the eleventh Virginia Davies mystery and the fourth quilt mystery, is out! Virginia ventures to Palm Springs, California for a quilt show and conference. It’s also a reunion and respite for her and her long time friend, Donna Bolette. A few days of fun, sun, and quilting can’t hurt. They visit Virginia’s old teacher and friend, Ms. Carol Jean Putman when they arrive in the desert. After a nice friendly visit, Carol is discovered murdered on her ranch. Virginia’s shock doubles when she learns that Carol Jean Putman made Virginia the executor of her estate and the new owner of a whole lot of desert. Virginia learns the murder involves a special quilt that partially glows in the dark, a painting from the seventeen hundreds, a legend about old Spanish galleons lost in the desert sands, and a vast treasure hidden centuries ago. Virginia’s mastered the art of…

Virginia Davies-Clark is called back into the service of the Smithsonian Central Security Service and the Department of Defense, along with her husband Andy and her friend Donna, to locate a quilt. This isn’t just any quilt. At the 1933 Century of Progress in Chicago, Sears Roebuck Company sponsored a quilt contest. The Grand Prize was to be $1,000.00. The quilt that won the prize was a piece called “The Unknown Star” by the maker, Margaret Rogers Caden of Kentucky. The quilt, itself, was presented to the wife of the then President, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sometime during FDR’s presidency, the quilt disappeared and has not been seen for almost seventy years. Virginia asks why the DOD is interested in an old quilt. The government agent tells her the quilt contains wire recorder data on the final “Uniform Field Theory” or Theory of Everything. Dr. Einstein supposedly discovered the theory…