Fête, Feathers, and Foul Play: A Thornwick Hat Shop Mystery - Book 11($21.99Value)

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A stolen hat. A poisoned guest. A secret thirty years in the burying. When village milliner Agnes Ambrose is asked to judge the county's most coveted hat competition, she expects ribbons and rivalry — not fraud. But Agnes has spent a lifetime reading the truth hidden in stitch and fabric, and one glance tells her the prize-winning entry was never made by the woman who claimed it. Before she can say so aloud, that woman is dead — poisoned in front of the whole county at the height of the fête. Now Agnes must trace a masterpiece back to its true maker, and a killing back to a crime buried three decades deep. Someone in this genteel gathering has hidden a stolen life behind spotless grey gloves and an unblemished name — and they will let an innocent woman hang before they let the truth come to light. With her sharp-eyed apprentice Sophie, her irrepressible parrot Monsieur Froufrou, and a patient inspector who trusts hard proof over instinct, Agnes follows one crooked thread toward a reckoning years in the making. Because some truths can be buried. But a maker's mark never truly disappears. Fête, Feathers, and Foul Play is the eleventh book in the Thornwick Hat Shop Mystery series — a warm, twisty 1920s whodunit with no gore and no foul language, perfect for readers who love classic English village mysteries, clever amateur sleuths, and craft-cozy charm. Each book is a complete mystery with a satisfying ending.