A Crafter Knits a Clue
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"When a heartbroken Samantha "Sammy" Kane returns to her hometown of Heartsford, WI, for her best friend Kate's funeral, she learns that Kate's much-loved craft store is in danger of perishing with its owner. Confounding all her expectations of the life she would live, Sammy moves back home with her golden retriever and takes over Community Craft. A few doors down Main Street, fellow new arrival Ingrid Wilson has just opened the Yarn Barn, a real "purl" of a shop. But when Sammy strolls over to see if Ingrid could use a little help, she finds Ingrid's dead body--with a green aluminum knitting needle lodged in her throat. Detective Liam Nash is thrown for a loop as every single citizen of Heartsford seems to have a theory about Ingrid's murder. And nearly everyone in town seems to be a suspect. But the last time Sammy did any sleuthing was as a little moppet. And this is not fun and games. Sammy is eager to help the handsome Liam--who seems to be endlessly inventive in finding reasons to talk with her--and when Liam arrests affable woodworker Miles Danbury, Sammy puts everything on the line to help clear Miles. the case comes dangerously close to unraveling, Sammy must stitch the clues together. But the killer has other plans--and if Sammy's not careful, she may wind up in a perilous knot in A Crafter Knits a Clue, the first warm and woolly yarn of Holly Quinn's new Handcrafted mysteries"--Provided by publisher.
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3 primary booksA Handcrafted Mystery
A Handcrafted Mystery is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Holly Quinn.
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A Crafter Knits a Clue is the first in Holly Quinn's A Handcrafted Mystery series. It's set in the small town of Heartsford, Wisconsin, and the main character, Samantha “Sammy” Kane, is the owner of Community Craft, which sells items handmade by members of the community. Sammy took over the store upon the death of her friend Kate, who'd started the business. When the book opens, Sammy is busy getting ready for the town's upcoming Spring Fling. Early in the story, Sammy finds the owner of the Yarn Barn dead in her store, killed with a knitting needle.
We meet Sammy's potential love interest in Detective Liam Nash, new to town and not very familiar with small-town life and making Sammy's blood boil for one reason or another every time she turns around. Sammy and her sister and cousin reactivate their childhood investigative crew, named S.H.E. for their initials, to try to solve the crime. Sammy's curiosity gets her into some tight situations, and sometimes I wanted to smack her for not having a lick of sense in how she proceeds because of that curiosity.
I enjoyed the book well enough. There were some grammatical and spelling errors that distracted from my reading, and as others have said, it didn't feel like the first in a series. It seemed to lack some set-up, and it seemed to assume the reader knew more about something than the reader actually knew. But I liked it. I loved the descriptions of small-town life and found them to be pretty accurate to what I knew and grew up with. I'll probably read more in the series.
Thanks to #netgalley for the review copy of #ACrafterKnitsAClue. All opinions expressed here are my own, and I don't say nice things about books I don't like.
