A Thread of Truth: Cobbled Court series

by: Marie Bostwick

Published by: Kensington Books

Reviewed by Andrea Sisco

A Thread of Truth, Marie Bostwick’s second novel in the Cobbled Court series, is a winner. The first book is A Single Thread.

Bostwick is a topnotch story teller. Her ability to weave her magic, alternating the point of view between two major characters is amazing. I enjoyed the “touch” of deep faith that is shared in the story. It made a good read just about perfect.

Ivy Peterman fled her home and the abusive husband who made her life a living hell. Once she decided to leave, she didn’t look back. A mistake in direction led her to New Bern, Connecticut where she told a “story” to protect herself and her two children. It was a story that while untrue, saw her safely ensconced in a shelter for battered women. She eventually was able to enter and live at the Stanton Center (an apartment building for domestic violence victims and their families).

Ivy was hired by Evelyn Dixon (a breast cancer survivor) at the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop. She finds her new life as safe as life can be with an abusive husband who continues to search for her. She likes New Bern and the people and she’s decided to stick around for awhile. But Ivy’s peaceful new life is turned upside down when she inadvertently appears in a popular quilting show that is taped at her place of business. Ivy must fight for her new life and her children. But for the first time in her life, she won’t fight alone. There are good, strong women willing to “cover her back.”

Buy A Single Thread, follow it up with A Thread of Truth and enjoy hours of storytelling that will warm your heart and help renew your belief that people can be good, if given the chance.

Armchair Interviews says: A Thread of Truth is the perfect beach read.

Author’s Web site: http://www.MarieBostwick.com