In Anne Canadeo's cozy eighth Black Sheep Knitting Mystery, a cold-hearted murder in Plum Harbor leads the knitters to investigate a new psychic who may be far more dangerous than she seems…
When Jimmy Hubbard, the manager of the local cinema, is murdered in a robbery gone wrong, the residents of Plum Harbor are mystified. Everyone liked Jimmy, and the struggling theater seems an unlikely target for burglars.
The Black Sheep Knitters are surprised and saddened by the crime, but are more suspicious of psychic-medium Isabel Waters, who has recently set up shop in town. Isabel has hoodwinked one of their friends into shelling out big money every week to keep the memory of a lost loved one alive. Determined to reveal Isabel as a fraud, the knitters are pulled in the web of Isabel’s world and find themselves in a tangle of secrets and lies. They must solve two murders before the truth about all of Isabel’s clients—past and present—are revealed.
Another fantastic installment in the lives of the Black Sheep Knitters and their friends.
In this one we open with a death, Jimmy Hubbard manages (just!) to keep the local cinema alive, no one seems to have a bad word to say about him and so everyone is shocked when a local teenager (who does shifts at the cinema) finds his dead body, and when it turns out that he didn't die of natural causes then everyone is even more stunned. Whilst all this is going on the Black Sheep knitters are alerted to a local (or at least fairly recently arrived) Psychic, Edie (who owns and runs the local diner) is convinced she is fleecing Edie's niece (Nora, who sadly lost her eldest son to a brain haemorrhage a couple of years ago), but when she ends up dead as well and Nora seems to be the prime suspect the Black Sheep knitters need to put down their needles and pick up their deerstalkers to find out what happened to both of them.
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