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.
As 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.
Sammy arrived three years ago to go to her best friends funeral, whilst there she discovered that the Community Craft shop Kate had set up would close unless someone takes it over, Sammy didn't think twice and bought a house, brought her Golden Retriever back to Heartsford and takes up the shop where Kate left off and her life where SHE left off. Recently Ingrid opened the Yarn Barn (much to the delight of the knitting group that meets and sells their wares through the Craft shop) but she does seem to think as though the world revolves around her and expects everyone to drop what they are doing whenever she needs help. One day Sammy's assistant (also Kate's and by extension Sammy's much younger brother) Carter gets a call to go help Ingrid, Sammy though needs him to finish the display for the Spring Fling coming up so she agrees to go across instead, but checks a few emails and pays a few bills first (really just to display to Ingrid that people have lives thank you very much!), when she gets to the Yarn Barn though Ingrid doesn't seem to be around ... or at least that is what Sammy things until she stumbles across Ingrid's dead body!
A few days later Coach (everyone calls the basketball coach just Coach) is run over and Sammy thinks the two are connected - now she needs to convince the infuriating (and attractive) new detective that he is looking in the wrong place and so Sammy with her sister Ellie and their cousin Heidi re-ignite their childhood detecting club to find out what is going in in Heartsford and to safe friends starting to distrust each other (oh and make sure the Spring Fling goes off without a hitch!)
This is a great start to a new series, I like the idea of the Community Craft Shop (sort of a real time Etsy I guess!), I hope this means that we will gradually find out about different crafts over various books.
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