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Dropped Dead Stitch (2009)

by Maggie Sefton(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

042522774X (ISBN13: 9780425227749)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Berkley Hardcover

series

A Knitting Mystery

review 1: This book was not very good, I'm sorry to say. The way multiple separate people (including a therapist) directly confronted the rapist was very unconvincing to me (and probably not a good idea!). The therapist in this book (like all therapists in books) had... let's just say "unusual" professional boundaries. The characters were all just a little too nice and worked out all each other's problems without much friction; and the 6-page description of a group of friends playing a board game together (complete with long passages of them discussing the directions for how to play the game) just did not make for a page turner.
review 2: A fun (if you can call rape and murder "fun") and quick read. I like cozy murder mysteries and this one was fairly good. Kelly Fly... morenn lives in the small town of Fort Connor, Colorado, and works as a self-employed accountant after leaving Corporate America back east. Since moving to Colorado, she also becomes a knitter and an inadvertent amateur detective. One of Kelly Flynn's close friends, Jennifer, is raped after being followed home from a bar she frequents. Jennifer doesn't tell the police, as she is afraid they won't believe her because she often dates men she meets in bars (she is, after all, known as a party girl). But Jennifer confides to Kelly and their close-knit (pun intended!) friends. Kelly and another friend are enlisted to teach knitting to women who are victims of rape at a retreat in the mountains. Jennifer comes along. And lo and behold, who owns the ranch where the retreat is being held? The cur who raped Jennifer. And after he is found murdered at his ranch during the retreat, Jennifer becomes the top suspect once the police find out her ordeal with him. I'm not a knitter, but reading this book made me want to pick cross stitching again. And be forewarned, if you love coffee, wine, and good food, this book will make you crave all three! less

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