SPOILER: If you haven't read this series, part of it is her on again off again relationship with Nick. In the prev book Nick claimed Maddie was his lifemate, at the start of this book they are off again. Huge surprise and while they did try to explain it, it just didn't jive well. However, I did like her choice in this book while she solved yet another mystery of a woman lost at sea during a scavenger hunt. Some editing issues but only a few I caught, solid read from beginning to end.
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Fun Cozy mystery. Great Series! ( )

Always love a good mystery. ( )

Maddie is a psychometric (one who practices the art of psychometry), she is most sensitive to vintage clothing which when she touches sends her back in time to the owner/wearer and their distress. The visions prompt Maddie to investigate....

While remodeling her business, Maddie is handed an old cash box covered in a scrap of peach fabric. Immediately she is pushed into the past. She finds herself in a dark dank & damp place near the ocean.... The people there are talking about a "scavenger hunt" and a woman they caused to go "missing". Maddie recognizes a few of the participants, one being her sister's mother-in-law. Thus begins the mystery of the missing woman....

At the same time Maddie's on-off again FBI b.f. has taken a case in Europe and it is hinted that he is with the woman whose case he is working on. Maddie falls into the arms of the local Detective (which whom she had a fractious relationship in school).

I liked the mystery, I liked the description of the vintage clothing (although I wish there were photographs of the pieces)., which earned the book the other 1/2 star.

I did not like the "romance", it just did not ring true. The dialog was overly glib, her new man too easily accepted her "gifts", he too easily allowed her to work on the case... It just felt entirely wrong, as did the other two romances in the book. The book had an overly sweet & sentimental conclusion, so I'm wondering if this will be the last in the series. ( )

I was very frustrated with rating this book. It's a GREAT read, but the author pissed me off so badly in one area I almost didn't finish reading the book. So, I'm giving it 3.5 stars but rounding up in good faith that she'll quit screwing around with Mad!

Madeira and Nick finally get their acts together and declare a commitment to each other in a previous book, after making the reader love him for his charm and his obvious adoration of Maddie. Only to have him act like a complete ass at the beginning of this book - off stage - by just up and leaving her without any explanation, and when she does finally get in touch - he not only completely blows her off, but he lets a woman answer the phone (a character from the last book)! WTF?!?! And then midway through the book, sends her a text message we're all supposed to embrace as a kindness. Again, WTF?!?!

I really like Werner and I always loved the banter and the chemistry between him and Maddie, but I did not appreciate the emotional slap-fest the author puts this reader through. The really good series (and this has been one up to now) - I get emotionally invested and attached to the characters. And well, the way this book started was just crap.

Ok, rant over. As I mentioned, Tulle Death Do Us Part is a great read once you get past the bitch-slap the author gives her readers. An old mystery involving the upper crust of Mystick Falls and secret scavenger hunts. And secrets. I'm so attached to these characters, and it's such fun to see them in their element, sleuthing away and trading witty dialogue the entire time. Pure entertainment. Werner has come into his own and he and Maddie have great chemistry, working together to figure out what happened all those years ago.

I can't say whether the mystery itself was well done or not. I freely admit to being completely distracted by what was going on with the characters. The ending was climatic for so many reasons; the decades old mystery only one factor.

I'll read the next one - I'm too hooked on this series to stop now. But I really hope the author cools it and shows Maddie some compassion. ( )