My mother and I are knitters. She taught me how to knit when I was about 12 or 13 and then re-taught me again when I was about 32. She has also taught me to crochet. My undiagnosed ADD keeps me coming back to crocheting, however. Knitting just takes forever and it's hard to for me to fix mistakes. So, in my desire to have things looking pretty and perfect, I crochet. My mother and I also love yarn stores. We could literally hang out in them all day, just looking at every color and touching the different skeins to find the ones that are the softest. It's a little strange, I know, but serious knitters and crocheters are just like this. I've come to accept it and have moved on.
But when my Mom called me several years ago and told me the she had just read the BEST book EVER and that it was called Knit One, Kill Two I thought she had really taken this yarn thing a little too far. She promised me that it was worth my time and she was right (again, but don't tell her that!).
Fleece Navidad is the 6th in a series of knitting mysteries by Maggie Sefton and I have loved them all. I stopped reading them for a period of time because (I am going to be brutally honest here) I was too cheap to buy them in hardback. Sefton's books are always printed in those small hardbacks first and I just can't stomach spending $18 on the smallest hardback book in history. I have now waited long enough to read the next 4 in paperback. Fleece Navidad begins the round.
I don't want to say anything that might give this book away. What would be the point in reading a mystery? But, I will tell you that the characters are real, likable, and easy to remember, even when you haven't picked up a book in years. The mysteries are also believable and the events are not contrived. The one thing I do have to wonder is why the people of this small community in Colorado keeps living there? There sure have been a lot of murders there in one year. If I were them, I would be thinking about moving.
Dropped Dead Stitch is the next one in the series, but I am not going to read that one right away. My next book is a cowboy book. I just love a good cowboy book! Happy reading!
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