If you’ve been reading the Kelly Flynn Knitting Mysteries, then you’ve discovered that I’ve
introduced several teenaged
characters in the books on different occasions. Most recently, in CLOSE KNIT
KILLER, I introduced a
young twelve year old, about-to-be teenager, Cassie Wainwright, café-owner Pete’s
niece, who joined the
cast. Cassie has gone on to become a cast regular in YARN OVER MURDER. Curt Stackhouse’s grandson, Eric, also joined
the cast in that
book. Cassie and Eric---both now fourteen years old---will be in this year’s June
1015 release, PURL UP AND
DIE.
Like all my characters, Cassie simply “walked onstage” one day, and I knew she was
meant to be in the
Kelly Flynn books. That’s the way it works with my characters. They don’t ask,
they simply show up and
demand to be on the page. Actually, I had a hint of Cassie a couple of years before
she showed up. She
didn’t have a name or any description then, but she was simply “out there” in the
sky, circling. All I
knew was she’s a teenaged girl. I was delighted when the character Cassie finally
showed up and turned
out to be a delight.
Here’s an excerpt from this June’s release, PURL UP AND DIE—
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Excerpt
Young Eric is also an enjoyable character. And it’s fun to write about young
teenaged boys slowly moving
into manhood, just as it’s equally enjoyable to write about teenaged girls making
their way carefully as
they blossom into young women. In the upcoming Kelly Flynn release, PURL UP AND
DIE, both Cassie and
Eric are fourteen and it’s great fun to show their moments of maturity and their
sudden lapses into
“younger kids.”
Here’s another excerpt from PURL UP
AND DIE—
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Excerpt
Since I have been blessed with four wonderful grandchildren (two grandsons and two
granddaughters), I
have had ample experience watching these young ones blossom. The teenaged boy
O’Leary appears in the
upcoming PURL UP
AND DIE. But he
first appeared as a full-of-himself thirteen year old with a cheesy grin in FLEECE NAVIDAD.
Kelly and Jennifer
wanted to help out over-worked Hilda and Lizzie who were handling the local Catholic
Church’s Christmas
pageant. Before they knew it, both Kelly and Jennifer (the two lapsed Catholics in
the Lambspun group)
found themselves in charge of a group of 13 year olds who were staging the pageant.
And my then-13 year
old grandson Matthew unknowingly provided a great deal of “inspiration” for
O’Leary. Oh, my. . .was
that fun to write.
An example from FLEECE
NAVIDAD—
Read an
Excerpt
Maggie Sefton is the author of the Knitting mysteries. She will have another mystery
series set in
Washington, DC, featuring political types, dead bodies, and intrigue---all
fictional, of course. :-)
First book in the series will be released in late summer 2012 from Midnight Ink.
An avid knitter herself, she lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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In the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of YARN OVER
MURDER, Kelly Flynn and
the Lambspun Knitters must unravel the truth from the lies to clear a friend's son
suspected of murder...
Kelly Flynn's summer in Fort Connor, Colorado, is off to a great start with romantic
celebrations with
her boyfriend, Steve, and enjoyable—albeit challenging—knitting classes taught by
her friend Barb at the
House of Lambspun. But while Barb's advanced stitches are giving Kelly the slip, a
more deadly problem
soon has her friend coming apart at the seams.
A young woman has accused Barb's son, Tommy—a young doctor doing his residency—of
assaulting her. The
yarns spun by the local rumor mill are bad enough, but when the young woman is found
dead in her
ransacked apartment, Tommy becomes the number one suspect.
The police are ready to close the case, but Kelly is convinced that there are a few
more likely suspects.
Now she has to knit together the clues herself to uncover a killer who doesn't seem
to drop a stitch...
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