Threadville is expanding with the addition of Threadville Academy of Design and Modeling (TADAM) and the director, Antonio, has commissioned the shop owners to make outfits to be worn in the fundraising fashion show. The designs are not the most flattering and at the end of the show Antonio explains why with references to the seven deadly sins illustrated by the outfits. Some of the shop owners are not happy and when Antonio has an allergic reaction and dies, the shop owners come under suspicion.

Willow and the other owners set out to find what really happened - was Antonio's death just a sad accident or did someone deliberately give him something he was allergic to?

It's sad to realize that this is the last visit to Threadville. The series has ended. ( )

Seven Deadly Sins is the fifth book in the A Threadville Mystery series.

I always enjoy visiting with the folks of Threadville and stop by all the shops to see what's new.

The Threadville Academy of Design and Modeling has recently located in Threadville and is getting ready to stage a fashion show. Antonio, the director, has given the students and seven of the shop owners, guidelines for them to design, make and wear the clothes in the fashion show. At the dress rehearsal, Willow is in her cubicle getting dressed when she hears Macey, give someone a resounding slap and a male respond that she better stop being prudish if she wants to be a model. Willow later finds out that the person who got slapped was in fact, Antonio. The following evening as the fashion show is progressing, Antonio singles out each of the seven ladies who have shops in Threadville and as he is describing what they are wearing, he assigns one of the Seven Deadly Sins to there design. At the reception following the fashion, Antonio once make unwanted advances on Macey. Willow's older, feisty neighbor, Dora, see this and charges Antonio with fists held up. Just as she is about to take a swing, Willow is able to stop her, just as Antonio grasps his throat and utters a barely audible, help. Antonio's wife and assistant director at the academy accuses Willow and Dora of killing her husband and wants them arrested. At this point he is still alive but shortly after arriving at the hospital he dies. A couple days later when Willow returns to her dressing cubicle to see if someone has retrieved the dress she returned after the reception, she notices the tissue that she had stuffed into the toe of the shoe was not as she had left it. A closer examination reveals that a prescription vial has been stuffed into the toe of the shoes she was wearing. In addition this there is a white briefcase that wasn't there when she left and in it are candy coated almonds, candies that Antonio had been popping with regularity. He believes that Antonio had some allergy to nuts and that the vial held drugs to counteract any reaction he might have to ingesting the almonds. Even though Willow has helped the police in the past, they aren't receptive to her theory that someone had slipped the almond candies into his suit jacket and hidden his medicine. I up to Willow and her friends, Hayley, Ashley and Dora, to sort thru the list of suspects. Paula the widow is a prime suspect, as she is always trying to get Willow and Dora arrested on some trumped up charge. Also there are academy employees Loretta and Kent who both seem to have something in their past that want to kept hidden. Or even Macey might have been groped once to often by Antonio and struck out to gain revenge.

In addition to the mystery of you killed Antonio, Willow also has another mystery to solve, what's up with Loretta and Clay. Are they really friends since fourth grade and what was going on the Clay ended up with lipstick on his shirt collar.

Another enjoyable story about the residents of Threadville. Looking forward to the next book in the series. ( )

Author Janet Bolin has embroidered another delightful creation in this latest addition of the Threadville Mystery series.

SEVEN THREADLY SINS in the fifth installment of this wonderful mystery series, and one of the best. It was a real page turner and kept me speculating all the way through.

This story was very well written and cleverly crafted. It contained lots of surprises and misleads, red herrings as they say, right up until the exciting reveal.

I want to thank author Bolin for writing a victim that all readers of this book will be happy to see killed off. LOL I almost didn’t care who the killer was because I was happy to see this gut done in. ;-) But on a serious note, because he was so unliked, it really opened up the suspect pool to make this mystery even harder to solve.

I don’t feel you need to know about needlecrafts to enjoy this book. Sewing on buttons is about all I can do, and I really liked it. But for those of you who do needlecrafts, there is a machine embroidery project at the end of the book, as well as some helpful tips from protagonist, Willow. ( )