The Black Sheep Knitters — Maggie, Lucy, Dana, Suzanne,
and Phoebe — meet once a week without fail, sharing the
varied and colorful skeins of their lives as much as
knitting tips, recipes, and small-town gossip, and creating
an intricate, durable pattern of friendship. Now a shocking
murder has peaceful Plum Harbor, Massachusetts, in knots —
and the Black Sheep women must herd together to protect one
of their own from a scandalous frame-up.
Maggie
Messina, beloved owner of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop, is
thrilled to be hosting a workshop for one of her former
students, now a celebrity in the knitting world. But the
celebration is upstaged when Amanda Goran, the owner of the
rival Knitting Nest, is found dead in her shop on the other
side of town.
Maggie had reasons to dislike Amanda, a
thorn in her side ever since Maggie's shop surpassed
Amanda's in popularity. Then again, it wasn't hard to
dislike Amanda — the contentious woman, whose marriage was
on the rocks, seemed to specialize in causing misery all
over town. But the pointed evidence has a detective casting
a suspicious eye on Maggie. She may be a whiz at knitting,
but can she keep the police from needling her before her
shop, her reputation, and her circle of friends become
unraveled?