Needled to Death (Knitting Mystery Series #2) by Maggie Sefton

A showcase of Maggie's expertise: sudden burst of action and suspense at the first and final confronby Tim04

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February 06, 2010: Since Kelly Flynn needs to arrange some more paper works for the death of her Aunt Helen and knowing she's next to kin to inherit her Aunt Martha's spread of land together with a barn and a herd of cow, sheep and alpaca, she needs to stay for a while at her small cottage and knit. She joined a group of tourists who wants to see what an alpaca is and learn on how they get fleeces from them. The tour turned out to be a nightmare when they recognize who's lying on the floor bled to death; it was Vickie, the owner of the alpaca ranch and Kelly's fellow knitter at Lamnspun. Many speculations prowl among knitters at Lambspun, since a bracelet of Eva Bartok was found in the crime scene, Eva, also a knitter was said to have an affair on Vickie's husband, Bob Claymore. Jayleen, one of Vickie's friends ask Kelly to help her out on arranging Vickie's financial and estate papers. Debbie arrived in no time to know what happened to her mom. But it's like she arrived to meet her death, at her mother's ranch, she was found lying on the floor, dead, police said it was her asthma-attack that killed her. Since Kelly was working on Vickie's paper works, she needs to visit from time to time the office of Vickie for the files she needed. She noticed an icon blinking on the computer screen; it was for an unread message for Debbie's email account. That message made a huge turning point on solving the death of Vickie and Debbie. It leads to the final confrontation to nail down the suspect.

Almost a huge portion of the story seems to be a prologue on Kelly staying and living on Fort Connor, more on neutral and light narrations that makes this book falls beyond under the category of mystery and suspense, say, a sub-genre. As the series of the "Knitting Mysteries" progresses the characters' deeper personalities reveals.

You will start basking about the story until you realize your heart was pumping like hell and notice you're finished reading it. I can say this is the author's expertise, sudden burst of action and suspense at the first and final confrontation.

Same fast-forward pacing like its predecessor (Knit One, Kill Two)

It's not for a hardcore action-packed reader but this could be on the top of your list for easy reading with a twist of mystery.

Small town murder solved with knitting needles!by las55

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October 17, 2009: This second book is a good follow up to the first. More town chacters are introduced as more of them are killed off! A fun, quick read with more knitting, murder and town drama! This series is a good companion series to the Goldie cooking/murder series by Diana Mott Davidson.