Her sister-in-law Kim, in spite of the baby talk she often lapses into, was a more likely candidate, and Kim makes no secret of the fact she agrees.  Still, Dewey decides to try and make a go of the shop. She plans to try to bring the business into the twenty-first century by implementing the electronic inventory system she had started to work on with her mother, with Kim sabotaging her every step of the way. 

At Dewey’s first regional quilt show, she learns that her mother had begun to make plans to sell Quilter’s Paradiso to quilting superstar Claire Armstrong.  Dewey decides this may be her way out of the quilting business, but when she arrives to meet Claire in her room, Claire is dead, done in by her own rotary cutter. Dewey happens to have the blister packaging of a rotary cutter in her bag, and because she is at the scene, becomes a suspect. 

Recently promoted, long time family friend Buster Healey doesn’t think Dewey is guilty and finally tells her of the less than brotherly feelings he has been harboring for her all these years.  Dewey is less interested in a relationship than a quilt shop at this point and just wants to clear her name, sell the store and get back to her old life - at least she thinks she does.  

The first in a new series, Wild Goose Chase is filled with some great characters.  Dewey is immediately likable and will have readers rooting for her from the first time Kim is nasty to her.  Dewey goes through several changes during the course of the book as she slowly comes back to life after her mother’s death, begins to let people into her life again, and even learns how to deal with Kim, who must have some redeeming qualities since her brother married her and has stayed married to her. 

There are plenty of suspects who would have wanted Claire dead, including the lovers who run the show, one of whom has a gambling problem, and any number of quilt shop owners who were in debt to the diva. Dewey decides it is up to her to sort out who done it and why before the last bell is rung on the quilt show.  Plenty of quilt lore, past and present, give a cozy atmosphere to what is sure to become a favorite series with stitchers and non-stitchers alike.  

                                                --Jennifer Monahan Winberry