Embroidery Floss Fiasco, The: A Cozy Mystery of Stranded Secrets and a Tangled Tale

?? Specialty floss shop owner and embroidery artist Flora Threadwell is hosting a prestigious stitching retreat when the retreat's celebrity instructor—a famously demanding needlework star—is found dead in her studio, tangled in a massive web of embroidery floss from her own inventory. The police suspect a bizarre accident, but Flora notices the floss colors form a deliberate pattern and the victim's project contains a hidden message stitched in a rare embroidery code. With her shop temporarily closed and the embroidery world in knots, Flora must carefully separate the strands of truth from this colorful mess. Assisted by her stitching retreat guests and the handsome textile chemist analyzing dye compositions, Flora uncovers a scheme involving counterfeit floss, stolen color formulas, and a black market for rare vintage threads. From suspicious dye lots that reveal chemical inconsistencies to strand twists that don't match manufacturer specifications, every color tells a story. But when Flora discovers the victim was systematically hoarding discontinued floss colors to manipulate the collector's market, she realizes the killer is protecting a colorful legacy more valuable than any single skein. With the retreat ending soon and the real culprit still weaving deception, Flora must stitch together the evidence before her own business gets permanently unraveled.