Arsenic And Old Silk

Description for ARSENIC AND OLD SILK by Mary Blount Christian: Sofia Parker is confused and more than a little scared.  She is confused because the fifth square in her priceless heirloom quilt indicates that an ancestor, a Venetian girl named Maddalena Vitari, was a seamstress for the court of King Henry VIII of England.  She is frightened because the driver of a mysterious SUV is stalking her and her family for some unknown reason. The pale green swatch of fabric reminds Sofia of the early sprigs of spring, a sharp contrast to the bleak, late-October landscape around her home in Cabot Falls, Vermont.  The accompanying entry in the diary bequeathed to her by her beloved grandmother, Elena Baresi, takes Sofia back to Windsor Castle in 1532.  What's a nice Venetian girl like Maddalena doing in a place like this? This is #5 in Annie's Secrets Of The Quilt Series.