In the seventh installment in the "entertaining" (Kirkus Reviews) Black Sheep Knitting Mystery series, the knitters see the darker side of Hollywood when Maggie's shop is used as a set for a big budget, star-studded movie.
When the cast and crew of a Hollywood movie arrive to film on location in quiet Plum Harbor, the village is aflutter at the A-list actresses. The Knitters are dazzled by the glamour and since Maggie's shop is an important set, they are privy to the backstage excitement and inside gossip. But from the first day of filming, accidents and menacing coincidences abound. The show must go on, but no sooner have the lights, action, and stitching begun when the killer strikes again - this time, cutting one character from the script for good.
The Black Sheep, an attentive audience to this tangled drama, are determined to unmask the real villain of this story before they can eliminate another member of this deadly cast.
Maggie, the owner of the Black Sheep knitting store is having her shop taken over by a film crew (and the Black Sheep knitters are wondering if they can sneak in as extra's), the main character in the film is a yarn shop owner and so the knitters decide to invite Jennifer Todd (and her assistant) to join them in the shop one evening to talk through what Maggie does on a daily basis and walk Jennifer through the shop and stock. Before this happens though there is an accident on set, then a more serious event, followed by yet another! Now the Black Sheep knitters need to sift through all the information and people, find out who is acting, who is being genuine and why this is happening.
I held off reading this (and the next in the series) because I had all the others in electronic form, now I really wish I had succumbed and bought the paperback well before this as this was a wonderful look at how something in the past can resonate through the years and cause too many problems for too many people.
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