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MURDER OF A NEEDLED KNITTER

Murder Of A Needled Knitter, September 2014
Scumble River #17
by Denise Swanson

Signet
Featuring: Skye Denison; Guinevere Stallings; Wally Boyd
272 pages
ISBN: 0451416511
EAN: 9780451416513
Kindle: B00IOE3ND0
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"Another phenomenal hit from Denise Swanson!"

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MURDER OF A NEEDLED KNITTER
Denise Swanson

Reviewed by Debbie Wiley
Posted September 24, 2014

Mystery Cozy

The wedding we've all been waiting for has come and gone and now Police Chief Wally Boyd and School Psychologist Skye Denison Boyd are on their honeymoon cruise. Skye is thrilled with every single aspect of the cruise... until she realizes her mom and dad may be on the very same cruise. After all, there's a knitting group aboard the ship and her parents had mentioned a knitting cruise. Things go from bad to worse when a member of the knitting group is killed and it's up to Wally and Skye (and a few other surprise Scumble River residents) to help them solve the murder.

Denise Swanson shows once again why she is one of my favorite cozy mystery authors with the seventeenth book in the Scumble River series! I love visiting with the Scumble River residents and was a little worried that MURDER OF A NEEDLED KNITTER would suffer without some of our favorite secondary characters. Denise Swanson finds the perfect way to pull off a honeymoon away from Scumble River, however, as Skye's mother, May, tries to manipulate things once again.

Denise Swanson brings a cruise to vivid life in MURDER OF A NEEDLED KNITTER. I laughed right along with Skye and Wally at some of the things they overhear and observe while I absolutely love the taste of the islands we get through Skye's eyes. While I definitely miss the town of Scumble River, I love seeing Wally and Skye in a different environment.

MURDER OF A NEEDLED KNITTER is sheer fun! Denise Swanson excels at crafting quirky but lovable characters- and the knitting community she portrays in MURDER OF A NEEDLED KNITTER is chock full of them! I almost didn't miss the Dooziers after meeting some of Skye's fellow cruisers! MURDER OF A NEEDLED KNITTER is yet another phenomenal hit from Denise Swanson!

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SUMMARY

School psychologist Skye Denison has been waiting forever
for her happily-ever-after with police chief Wally Boyd.
But
her bliss threatens to unravel on the very first day of
their luxurious honeymoon cruise, when Skye becomes
convinced that she has glimpsed her mother on board! Surely
even momzilla May wouldn’t have manipulated Wally into
booking the same trip that her knitting group is
taking…or
would she?

May’s possible presence can’t cool Skye and Wally’s ardor
on
their personal Love Boat, but discovering knitting expert
Guinevere Stallings as she lies dying from a stab wound
leaves them untangling the clues of yet another murder
investigation rather than getting tangled in the sheets.
Since Skye found the body, she’s considered a top suspect,
but she’s far from the only one. Guinevere’s imperious ways
needled nearly everyone, and she left an impressive number
of enemies. It’s up to the crafty newlyweds to figure out
which of the wronged parties was angry enough to cast
Guinevere off…permanently.

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BOOK SERIES

Scumble River

Murder of a Small-Town Honey
MURDER OF A SMALL-TOWN HONEY
#1.0 β€’ July 2000
Murder of a Sweet Old Lady
MURDER OF A SWEET OLD LADY
#2.0 β€’ April 2001
Murder of a Sleeping Beauty
MURDER OF A SLEEPING BEAUTY
#3.0 β€’ April 2002
Murder of a Snake In The Grass
MURDER OF A SNAKE IN THE GRASS
#4.0 β€’ April 2003
Murder of a Barbie And Ken
MURDER OF A BARBIE AND KEN
#5.0 β€’ November 2003
Murder Of A Pink Elephant
MURDER OF A PINK ELEPHANT
#6.0 β€’ July 2004
Murder of a Smart Cookie
MURDER OF A SMART COOKIE
#7.0 β€’ July 2005
Murder of a Real Bad Boy
MURDER OF A REAL BAD BOY
#8.0 β€’ August 2006
Murder of a Botoxed Blonde
MURDER OF A BOTOXED BLONDE
#9.0 β€’ April 2007
Murder Of A Chocolate-Covered Cherry
MURDER OF A CHOCOLATE-COVERED CHERRY
#10.0 β€’ April 2008
Murder Of A Royal Pain
MURDER OF A ROYAL PAIN
#11.0 β€’ April 2009
Murder Of A Wedding Belle
MURDER OF A WEDDING BELLE
#12.0 β€’ April 2010
Murder Of A Bookstore Babe
MURDER OF A BOOKSTORE BABE
#13.0 β€’ March 2011
Murder Of A Creped Suzette
MURDER OF A CREPED SUZETTE
#14.0 β€’ October 2011
Murder Of The Cat's Meow
MURDER OF THE CAT'S MEOW
#15.0 β€’ September 2012
Murder of a Stacked Librarian
MURDER OF A STACKED LIBRARIAN
#16.0 β€’ September 2013
Murder Of A Needled Knitter
MURDER OF A NEEDLED KNITTER
#17.0 β€’ September 2014
Murder of an Open Book
MURDER OF AN OPEN BOOK
#18.0 β€’ September 2015
Murder of a Cranky Catnapper
MURDER OF A CRANKY CATNAPPER
#19.0 β€’ September 2016

 

 

 

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