Banished Threads received a 4+ star review, making it an IndieReader Approved title.
Following find an interview with author Kaylin McFarren.
What is the name of the book and when was it published?
Banished Threads by Kaylin McFarren – published January 8, 2016; released March 20, 2016.
What’s the book’s first line?
A lone figure stood in the estuary lookout nestled in the trees above the North Sea on the Holderness Coast, waiting with restless anticipation as Gwen Gallagher approached the cliff’s edge.
What’s the book about? Give us the “pitch”.
A valuable art collection disappears turning a treasure-hunting duo into crime-stopping sleuths willing to risk their lives to vindicate family members.
While vacationing at the stately Cumberforge Manor in Bellwood, England, Rachel Lyons and Chase Cohen attend an elegant dinner party hosted by her uncle, Paul Lyons, and his aristocratic wife, Sara. Before the evening ends, a priceless collection of Morris Graves’s paintings are stolen from her uncle’s popular gallery, throwing all suspicion onto his wife’s missing granddaughter. Determined to clear Sloan Rafferty’s name and, in the process, win Paul’s favor, Chase scours the countryside looking for answers. In his absence, the police accuse Rachel’s uncle of an unsolved murder and secrets surrounding her grandmother’s death and the deaths of Sara’s former husbands turn his wife into the most likely suspect. With the true villains hell-bent on destroying Paul Lyons and his family, solving both crimes while ensuring her uncle’s freedom not only endangers Rachel’s life but that of her unborn child. Will Chase save them before the kidnappers enact their revenge or will the ultimate price be paid, as predicted by a vagabond fortuneteller?
What inspired you to write the book? A particular person? An event?
For most of my life, I’ve been fascinated by the arts–visual, literary, and performance. At the age of eight, I penned my first poem and won my first award in a short-story writing contest sponsored by the Seattle Rotary. Throughout high school and college, I continued to write in journals and attribute my interest in a literary major to Lonny Kaneko, a highly respected English professor at Highline Community College in Des Moines, Washington. My dream of opening and operating an art gallery became a reality on June 5, 1999, and the gallery joined the list of twenty-seven diverse companies under my husband’s Yoshida Group umbrella. During my eight years of running the gallery, I became a committed champion of more than four hundred artists in the Northwest, exposing their talents at monthly shows and through national marketing efforts. My love of this visual medium, combined with my enjoyment of writing, drove me to weave this action-packed, emotionally-charged tale, which I hope mystery, suspense and romance lovers will enjoy reading.
What’s the main reason someone should really read this book?
Banished Threads is an emotion-charged ride through a series of close encounters that are as psychologically gripping as they are filled with action. In other words, readers will find it difficult to put this book down.