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Summary
Summary
Now in hardcover-the fast-growing mystery series featuring Kelly Flynn and her knitting circle! The House of Lambspun has been bombarded for the holidays. Then an alpaca sheep rancher is found dead in Bellevue Canyon-and knitter and sometime-sleuth Kelly Flynn quickly puts Yuletide frivolities aside. With the deceased's reputation for loving and leaving the ladies of Fort Connor, many women had a motive to kill him. Kelly also finds herself linked to the prime suspect, a former lover of the wealthy playboy rancher. Charged with keeping both spinner and spurned from going over the edge, Kelly will discover more than a few secrets tangled on this triad's bobbin.
Author Notes
Margaret Aunon, writing as Maggie Sefton, is the author of a Knitting Mystery Series. She was born in Richmond, VA, and grew up in Arlington. She has a bachelor's degree in English Literature and Journalism and resides in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
When womanizing Derek Cooper, a Fort Collins, Colo., rancher, is killed by a blow to the head near the start of Sefton's entertaining if flawed fourth knitting mystery (after 2006's A Deadly Yarn), her first in hardcover, for once it looks as if knitter-cum-accountant-cum-sleuth Kelly Flynn, who doesn't know the deceased, won't get involved. But it turns out that one of Kelly's pals is close friends with a prime suspect, Cooper's ex, and Kelly offers her detecting skills in an attempt to track down the real killer. Readers will enjoy visiting with Kelly and her knitting buddies, who, in their carefree way, resemble the cast of Friends. Unfortunately, awkward dialogue, such as a conversation about whether Kelly is comfortable kissing her boyfriend, strikes a false note. Still, knitting devotees will enjoy this crafty cozy. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
The third in the Knitting Mystery series once again features CPA and novice knitter Kelly Flynn, who sleuths around Fort Connor, Colorado, where she has found both a surrogate family and land on which to build her dream house. Sefton offers an acceptable mystery this time--finding out who killed a local double-dealing ladies' man--while twisting in plenty of details about knitting and spinning. Unfortunately, Sefton is guilty of a couple of extremely annoying literary tics: too many characters are introduced without enough description to keep them straight, and, worse, they do altogether too much grinning, smiling, and laughing (several times per page, in fact). Still, knitters will be pleased to add Sefton's series, now four installments strong, to their knitting-related fiction shelf (along with Kate Jacobs' chick-littish Friday Night Knitting Club, 2007). And, perhaps best of all, a nice pattern for a cable scarf ends the book. --Ilene Cooper Copyright 2007 Booklist
Library Journal Review
When a womanizing Colorado rancher is murdered and a friend of Kelly Flynn's (A Good Yarn) is suspected, Kelly pokes around and as usual finds danger. As light and fluffy as one of Kelly's balls of yarns, this fourth entry in Sefton's knitting series marks the author's hardcover debut. Readers may enjoy reading the book almost as much as they'll delight in knitting the Cable Knit Scarf (the pattern is provided here). For cozy and knitting fans. Sefton lives in Colorado. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.