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Yarn Retreat Mystery #2
Silence of the Lamb's Wool
Dessert chef Casey Feldstein has learned one end of a knitting needle from the other after inheriting her aunt’s yarn retreat business, but a murder threatens to unravel her latest event . . .
Casey’s running a new retreat called �From Sheep to Shawl” at a resort on the atmospheric Monterey Peninsula. Participants will learn about sheepshearing, fixing up the fleece, and spinning, and will eventually knit a lovely shawl.
Nicole Welton has been hired to teach the fleece-to-fiber portion of the retreat. She’s an expert spinner, and her small shop in Cadbury by the Sea houses a beautiful assortment of spinning wheels and drop spindles. But when the new teacher fails to show up for class and is found lying dead on the boardwalk, it leaves everyone’s nerves frayed.
Now Casey has to knit together clues faster than she can count stitches before someone else at the retreat gets dropped . . .
Includes a knitting pattern and a recipe!
Casey’s running a new retreat called �From Sheep to Shawl” at a resort on the atmospheric Monterey Peninsula. Participants will learn about sheepshearing, fixing up the fleece, and spinning, and will eventually knit a lovely shawl.
Nicole Welton has been hired to teach the fleece-to-fiber portion of the retreat. She’s an expert spinner, and her small shop in Cadbury by the Sea houses a beautiful assortment of spinning wheels and drop spindles. But when the new teacher fails to show up for class and is found lying dead on the boardwalk, it leaves everyone’s nerves frayed.
Now Casey has to knit together clues faster than she can count stitches before someone else at the retreat gets dropped . . .
Includes a knitting pattern and a recipe!
304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 2014
About the author
Betty Hechtman
33 books654 followersI grew up on the south side of Chicago and in a very busy weekend, got married, graduated college and moved to Los Angeles.
Although my degree is in Fine Arts, all I ever wanted to be was a writer and I've been doing it in one form or another for as long as I can remember. My shining moments in elementary and high school always involved stories or poetry I'd written. I wrote news stories and a weekly column in my college newspaper. My first job out of college was working on the newsletter of a finance company. I worked for a public relations firm and wrote press releases and biographies. Later I wrote proposals for video projects and television shows that went through various stages of development.
I tried writing screenplays and wrote three. I sold one and another was a winner in a Writers' Digest contest.
I was lucky enough to be a stay-at-home mom and did all kinds of volunteering at my son's schools including editing and writing several newsletters.
I wrote essays and small pieces that ran in the Los Angeles Times, the Daily News and Woman's Day among others. My short romantic and mystery fiction appeared in Woman's World, and Futures magazine.
From time I was a thirteen-year-old babysitter cooking for the kids I babysat, I dreamed of writing a book about babysitting. It took a little longer than I'd expected, but BLUE SCHWARTZ AND NEFERTITI'S NECKLACE was published in 2006.
My affair with crochet began in Las Vegas. I had always had a fascination with crochet, particularly granny squares, but thought there was some magic involved with making them that was beyond me. And then everything changed that day in Vegas when I saw the kids' kit in FAO Schwartz. If the instructions were easy enough for kids, I thought they might work for me.
My first granny square was missing a corner, but when I tried again, all four corners were there. I was in awe of my own accomplishment. I had found the magic. I went granny square crazy until pretty soon I didn't need directions anymore. Then I learned there were more squares than just basic grannies and I made squares with sunflowers in the middle and other patterns. I moved beyond squares and made flowers, hearts, bookmarks and more.
I was in love with crochet and began to make scarves, purses, afghans, and shawls. I started carrying my hooks everywhere. A plane trip became a pile of granny square wash cloths, or part of a shawl. A vacation in Hawaii turned into a tote bag.
And now I get to write about it...
** Sourced from authors website
Series:
* A Crochet Mystery
* Yarn Retreat
Although my degree is in Fine Arts, all I ever wanted to be was a writer and I've been doing it in one form or another for as long as I can remember. My shining moments in elementary and high school always involved stories or poetry I'd written. I wrote news stories and a weekly column in my college newspaper. My first job out of college was working on the newsletter of a finance company. I worked for a public relations firm and wrote press releases and biographies. Later I wrote proposals for video projects and television shows that went through various stages of development.
I tried writing screenplays and wrote three. I sold one and another was a winner in a Writers' Digest contest.
I was lucky enough to be a stay-at-home mom and did all kinds of volunteering at my son's schools including editing and writing several newsletters.
I wrote essays and small pieces that ran in the Los Angeles Times, the Daily News and Woman's Day among others. My short romantic and mystery fiction appeared in Woman's World, and Futures magazine.
From time I was a thirteen-year-old babysitter cooking for the kids I babysat, I dreamed of writing a book about babysitting. It took a little longer than I'd expected, but BLUE SCHWARTZ AND NEFERTITI'S NECKLACE was published in 2006.
My affair with crochet began in Las Vegas. I had always had a fascination with crochet, particularly granny squares, but thought there was some magic involved with making them that was beyond me. And then everything changed that day in Vegas when I saw the kids' kit in FAO Schwartz. If the instructions were easy enough for kids, I thought they might work for me.
My first granny square was missing a corner, but when I tried again, all four corners were there. I was in awe of my own accomplishment. I had found the magic. I went granny square crazy until pretty soon I didn't need directions anymore. Then I learned there were more squares than just basic grannies and I made squares with sunflowers in the middle and other patterns. I moved beyond squares and made flowers, hearts, bookmarks and more.
I was in love with crochet and began to make scarves, purses, afghans, and shawls. I started carrying my hooks everywhere. A plane trip became a pile of granny square wash cloths, or part of a shawl. A vacation in Hawaii turned into a tote bag.
And now I get to write about it...
** Sourced from authors website
Series:
* A Crochet Mystery
* Yarn Retreat
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May 5, 2019
I am really enjoying this series by Ms. Hechtman even though I know nothing at all about knitting. Her descriptive writing makes me feel as if I am visiting Cadbury by the Sea as Casey Feldstein attempts a second Yarn2Go retreat at the resort. I really like Casey, Bree, Olivia and Scott. They make an awesome team at this retreat. The plot was quickly paced and there were plenty of red herrings to keep me from catching on to "who done it" until the reveal. Now I just have to wait until the library has the next book available.
May 31, 2018
I loved this installment in this series. I love it when books have a nice twist at the end that I don't see coming. I never thought of this person being the one who did it, and the other little twist was nice as well. I look forward to the next one, as it leaves off on a bit of a cliffhanger, and I want to see how all the storylines keep progressing.
November 13, 2019
Excellently plotted to leave you with a host of potential viable suspects, but with a twist that I should have seen coming yet did not! I loved that I had no idea of who the culprit was until the end and then it all fell into line. Strong characters with realistic traits and flaws to draw you in and make you really like them. I can't wait to see what happens in the next book!
January 16, 2016
Dollycas’s Thoughts
Casey’s retreat sounds like a lot of fun. Seeing the sheep getting sheared, cleaning and combing the fleece and spinning and then knitting with wool we made ourselves would be a blast. Too bad she had to face one roadblock after another including the death of the woman that was supposed to lead the whole retreat. Casey channels her aunt and does what she would have done and handled each problem head on, even chasing down a killer.
I really love these characters. Casey has landed on her feet pretty well and following in her aunt’s footsteps continuing the yarn retreats while challenging definitely keeps her busy. Even though her mother still thinks she needs to get a “real job”. What I really enjoyed was the friendships she continues to make. Three retreaters from the last retreat return in this story and they really step up and help Casey with this retreat. Her best friend Lucinda and her husband Tag are back too as is her ex. Dr. Sammy has moved to town and has found an unusual way to stay close to Casey.
Betty Hechtman has spun a fine mystery too. Was it suicide or murder? If it was murder who did it? She keeps trying to get her handsome neighbor who happens to be a cop to see things her way but she leaves each meeting with him either hot and bothered or furious that he is not taking her seriously.
If you are knitter you will want to grab your needles, if you are not you will wish you were. This is a captivating page turner and I thoroughly enjoyed it!!
Casey’s retreat sounds like a lot of fun. Seeing the sheep getting sheared, cleaning and combing the fleece and spinning and then knitting with wool we made ourselves would be a blast. Too bad she had to face one roadblock after another including the death of the woman that was supposed to lead the whole retreat. Casey channels her aunt and does what she would have done and handled each problem head on, even chasing down a killer.
I really love these characters. Casey has landed on her feet pretty well and following in her aunt’s footsteps continuing the yarn retreats while challenging definitely keeps her busy. Even though her mother still thinks she needs to get a “real job”. What I really enjoyed was the friendships she continues to make. Three retreaters from the last retreat return in this story and they really step up and help Casey with this retreat. Her best friend Lucinda and her husband Tag are back too as is her ex. Dr. Sammy has moved to town and has found an unusual way to stay close to Casey.
Betty Hechtman has spun a fine mystery too. Was it suicide or murder? If it was murder who did it? She keeps trying to get her handsome neighbor who happens to be a cop to see things her way but she leaves each meeting with him either hot and bothered or furious that he is not taking her seriously.
If you are knitter you will want to grab your needles, if you are not you will wish you were. This is a captivating page turner and I thoroughly enjoyed it!!
August 14, 2021
Casey's "Sheep to Shawl" retreat seems doomed before it begins. The hotel decided to rid itself of wifi to provide a more introspective environment. Casey isn't sure this new policy will go over with her retreaters. The hotel manager won't allow the sheep on the grounds so they can get the fleeces. Before the event, her spinning instructor dies from a poisoned cup of coffee. Although police rule it a suicide, Casey doesn't believe it. Another spinner seems overly eager to take over the spinning instruction, and Casey really has no choice but to accept her somewhat pushy offer. One of the elderly sisters owning the hotel plans to marry a man Casey realizes wants to take over hotel operations and place his daughter who is attending the retreat as manager. Casey realizes if this happens she'll no longer have a venue for her retreats. Casey quickly realizes she needs to be more familiar with processes for future retreats so she feels in control of things in the future. On the murder front, with lots of suspects and different motives--and even the possibility the cops are correct that Nicole committed suicide, Casey places herself in danger many times. A secondary plot line ends with a cliff hanger. I missed the interaction in the retreat situation in this installment. We never really got to know many of the new attendees--just a trio of those returning from the first series installment. I hope the author makes the retreat seem a bit more realistic in future installments by introducing us to these persons.
April 3, 2020
Casey soon realizes that as a retreat leader, she could use some help. Her Sheep to Shawl event is troubled from the very beginning, but when the instructor is found dead, Casey knows she needs help and fast. Unwilling to take the police verdict of suicide seriously, Casey falls back on her true calling: detecting. She much better at being a private eye than she is at leading a yarn retreat. This second installment is not quite as good as the first book, but there is a continuing mystery which will entice you to keep reading the series.
August 28, 2024
This Yarn Retreat Mystery series is so much fun. The mystery part is not prime time crime fiction, but the yarn retreat part is a lot of fun. I am inspired to pick my Turkish spindle back up and start spinning again. It is always nice to knit with homespun yarn. This book has inspired me to do so. I am definitely going to continue with this series.
November 25, 2019
I didn't enjoy this as much the previous book. It ends with a cliffhanger, so I want to read the next one to find out what happened. This story involves a hotel, a ledger, poison, a coffee shop, and yarn. The knitting and yarn were mys favorite parts of the story. The mystery was interesting, too.
November 17, 2020
A cozy mystery set on the Monterey Peninsula featuring Casey Feldstein as the main character. She is trying to run her aunt's business - having yarn retreats. She is in over her head and enjoys her baking business much more. The book was an easy read.
February 8, 2019
Great series
December 10, 2020
I’m hooked... although that’s not really the appropriate word to use considering this is a book about knitting. Lol! Casey, Lucinda, Tag, Bree, Olivia, Scott, of course Julius and even Kevin St. John have won me over. I honestly had no idea ‘who done it’ until it was revealed. I’ve always liked Betty’s crochet mysteries and the yarn retreat books are just as good. I’m almost tempted to learn to knit.
July 21, 2014
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Brought to you by OBS reviewer JoAnne
Casey Feldstein lives in Cadbury by the Sea, having moved there after a failed run of semi-careers. While her mother wants her to go to culinary school, because she knows Casey loves to bake, Casey has other ideas. She has inherited her aunt’s business of running knitting retreats, and wants to keep doing it. So, in her latest retreat, her hiree, Nicole Welton, is found dead the first morning, of what is an apparent suicide. But Casey thinks things don’t add up, and although she can’t convince Lieutenant Borgnine that Nicole was murdered, she herself is convinced and won’t give up trying to find a killer.
But this may not be as easy to do as she thinks. Given free reign of Nicole’s workshop by Nicole’s grieving widower, Will, she finds bits and pieces of what might point to blackmail. When she starts thinking back of things she’s seen, and begins to see things around her differently, she starts to piece together the whole picture.
To make matters more complicated, her crush on Dane, her policeman neighbor, is halted temporarily when she finds out there’s a woman staying with him; a replacement knitting instructor has appeared out of nowhere; Cora Delacorte has become engaged to a smarmy man; and there has been another attempted murder – which only convinces Casey she was right all along.
This book was engaging indeed, and quite difficult to put down, so I just kept on reading until I finished. Casey is intelligent, and thinks things through, which I like; but no one really seems to want to take her seriously except her friend Lucinda, whom she bakes for. She is different in that she doesn’t just rush off on tangents putting herself in danger, and I really like that a lot. It’s nice when you find a main character who actually has the foresight to think of a way out of a situation before she puts herself in a situation. An excellent read and highly recommended.
*OBS would like to thank the publisher for supplying a free copy of this title in exchange for an honest review as part of their ongoing blog tour*
Brought to you by OBS reviewer JoAnne
Casey Feldstein lives in Cadbury by the Sea, having moved there after a failed run of semi-careers. While her mother wants her to go to culinary school, because she knows Casey loves to bake, Casey has other ideas. She has inherited her aunt’s business of running knitting retreats, and wants to keep doing it. So, in her latest retreat, her hiree, Nicole Welton, is found dead the first morning, of what is an apparent suicide. But Casey thinks things don’t add up, and although she can’t convince Lieutenant Borgnine that Nicole was murdered, she herself is convinced and won’t give up trying to find a killer.
But this may not be as easy to do as she thinks. Given free reign of Nicole’s workshop by Nicole’s grieving widower, Will, she finds bits and pieces of what might point to blackmail. When she starts thinking back of things she’s seen, and begins to see things around her differently, she starts to piece together the whole picture.
To make matters more complicated, her crush on Dane, her policeman neighbor, is halted temporarily when she finds out there’s a woman staying with him; a replacement knitting instructor has appeared out of nowhere; Cora Delacorte has become engaged to a smarmy man; and there has been another attempted murder – which only convinces Casey she was right all along.
This book was engaging indeed, and quite difficult to put down, so I just kept on reading until I finished. Casey is intelligent, and thinks things through, which I like; but no one really seems to want to take her seriously except her friend Lucinda, whom she bakes for. She is different in that she doesn’t just rush off on tangents putting herself in danger, and I really like that a lot. It’s nice when you find a main character who actually has the foresight to think of a way out of a situation before she puts herself in a situation. An excellent read and highly recommended.
*OBS would like to thank the publisher for supplying a free copy of this title in exchange for an honest review as part of their ongoing blog tour*
November 16, 2017
In this second installment of the series, Casey Feldstein is hosting her second yarn retreat, "From Sheep to Shawl". However, the retreat quickly begins to fall apart when the teacher Casey hired for the event is found dead. Was it suicide or was it murder? Will Casey be able to keep the retreat together?
I enjoyed the book. I was glad to see the core group of retreaters from the first book reappear in this book. The mystery was entertaining. I did feel as though a few of the clues were hidden from us, which took away from our ability to solve the mystery.
Once again, I found the knitting aspect of the book a little disappointing. I don't understand how anyone attempting to host a yarn retreat would expect beginners to go from "sheep to shawl" during the span of a few days. Otherwise, it was a fun read. I definitely plan to read the next book in the series.
I enjoyed the book. I was glad to see the core group of retreaters from the first book reappear in this book. The mystery was entertaining. I did feel as though a few of the clues were hidden from us, which took away from our ability to solve the mystery.
Once again, I found the knitting aspect of the book a little disappointing. I don't understand how anyone attempting to host a yarn retreat would expect beginners to go from "sheep to shawl" during the span of a few days. Otherwise, it was a fun read. I definitely plan to read the next book in the series.
January 3, 2018
This book is a step up from the last one so if I could, I would rate it 3 1/2 stars. At least the main character realized that you have to plan out activities for the group by the end of the book, that doesn’t mean she didn’t just hope things would go ok during each session because she did and usually someone else, someone not being paid to run the retreat...someone who paid to be at the retreat...steps up and comes up with an activity or leads something. The editing was again pretty atrocious enough to yank me out of the story at times. However, I do like the premise and the setting so I will continue to read and the overall arch and supporting characters are strong and interesting.
September 21, 2018
I bought this book on Audible thinking I remembered the first one and it was a good cozy mystery. I should have opened my Goodreads app and I would have seen that I did not enjoy the last book due to the narrator. Margaret Storm is a well-known and apparently well-enjoyed narrator. However, I do not enjoy her. She sounds to me as if she is reading a book to children at the library. She stresses too many words too often. It is totally distracting to me. Betty Hechtman has some good cozies here but the narration has turned me off for good. That is if I remember to check Goodreads first!
July 8, 2014
I love this new series by Betty Hechtman. A little mystery and quirky characters make for a fun read. I highly recommend this story for a laid back summer weekend book. Once I started it I couldn't put it down.
October 16, 2018
I enjoyed this as it made Casey seem real. Problems coming from every turn, but it did make one character seem unapproachable and harsh, so that you felt she was the person to blame.
April 7, 2018
Casey Feldstein has never been one to stick to things. Currently she lives in Cadbury by the Sea, having inherited her aunt’s house and knitting business, and bakes deserts and muffins for the local Blue Door restaurant and local coffee shops. Not that she knows much about knitting, but she’s planning to keep on her aunt’s business of running yarn retreats at the nearby Vista Del Mar conference center and hotel. Her mother, Dr. Feldstein, calls from time to time to see how she’s going and mention that Casey’s ex-boyfriend, now living in Cadbury, is still mad about her. However, a Cadbury cop named Dane Mangano also has eyes for Casey. Julius, the black cat who adopted Casey, is in and out of the house. When the retreat teacher Nicole Welton, married to a local man, turns up dead at the yarn retreat, Casey tries to solve the case, much to the concern of the head cop Lieutenant Borgnine. This is a cute murder mystery series. I started in the middle and had no trouble with the characters. I did hope that Julius the cat would have more input into solving the murders, but it seems his only task is to ask for cat food.
November 24, 2022
Casey is back to it, holding another retreat for yarn enthusiasts. This time is a sheep to shawl program, where they start with shearing the sheep, and end the last day with working on a shawl made from their own hand-spun yarn. Well, the manager of the retreat center won't let the sheep on property, and then the expert Casey hired to teach spinning is killed. In top of all that, it looks like one of the owners of the retreat center is going to marry a money-grubbing man 30 years her junior, abs turn the place into something completely different! What else can go wrong?
I was honestly surprised with the killer this time. There weren't many clues laid out about the killer's identity, and the end result really was a jumble of info all at once that brought everything together. It almost felt like the author was so focused on getting the retreat explained and telling all the stuff that was going wrong there, as well as pointing out how awful the owner's fiancé was, that she cobbled the killer motives together at the end.
Honestly, though, these are fun books to listen to while I'm working on other things, so I'll probably keep going.
I was honestly surprised with the killer this time. There weren't many clues laid out about the killer's identity, and the end result really was a jumble of info all at once that brought everything together. It almost felt like the author was so focused on getting the retreat explained and telling all the stuff that was going wrong there, as well as pointing out how awful the owner's fiancé was, that she cobbled the killer motives together at the end.
Honestly, though, these are fun books to listen to while I'm working on other things, so I'll probably keep going.
April 9, 2019
This series is a lot of fun to read! So many times mystery series based on a craft feel forced and unnatural, but not this one. The protagonist is thrust into the position of arranging yarn-centric retreats and the reader learns about the retreat and techniques in a realistic manner that feels natural to the story, not forced as in some series. The author is herself an avid crocheter and this shows in the books. I have read a series about hand needlework where the author is a mystery writer who learned about needlework so she could write the books and the difference between the two is very obvious to people who are familiar with the techniques.
As in many traditional mysteries, the plot is nothing special; the characters and the environment are fun and engaging. The conference center where the retreats are held is too rustic for my taste, but it works in the book.
I look forward to reading future books in the series, particularly when I need some "fluff" in between more serious books.
As in many traditional mysteries, the plot is nothing special; the characters and the environment are fun and engaging. The conference center where the retreats are held is too rustic for my taste, but it works in the book.
I look forward to reading future books in the series, particularly when I need some "fluff" in between more serious books.
April 12, 2019
Dessert chef Casey runs a yarn retreat she inherited from her aunt and this year she has a retreat called from Sheep to Shawl and things are not off to a really good start. The manager of the resort that she works in doesn’t really like her running the retreat and thinks he should be in control so he makes things hard for her. Then the lady who is suppose to run the retreat and show them how to turn wool into yarn turns up dead.
Casey starts to look into things because everyone thinks it was suicide even the police and they won’t investigate but she just doesn’t think that is what happened. It seems there could be a few different reasons that someone might have killed Nicole.
It had been a while since I listened to the first one but once I got going it was easy to get into and I really enjoyed the characters. I like Casey, the old ladies who own the resort and all the others. It had a pretty good mystery because I didn’t figure it out.
If you like crafting cozies then check out this series!
Casey starts to look into things because everyone thinks it was suicide even the police and they won’t investigate but she just doesn’t think that is what happened. It seems there could be a few different reasons that someone might have killed Nicole.
It had been a while since I listened to the first one but once I got going it was easy to get into and I really enjoyed the characters. I like Casey, the old ladies who own the resort and all the others. It had a pretty good mystery because I didn’t figure it out.
If you like crafting cozies then check out this series!
December 8, 2018
Casey is improving her sleuthing skills, but her retreat leadership skills sure need improvement.
Sure, the murder of the woman she had engaged to basically handle the entire sheep-to-shawl event put a knot in the plans. But, boy, Casey doesn't know how to punt. She didn't bother learning anyone's names. Her returning retreaters ended up picking up much of the slack because she was so ill-prepared. She hardly spent any time at her own retreat.
The first book in this series got me all excited about the idea of a yarn retreat. I would not have enjoyed this one.
I'm choosing to think of this as a bump in Casey's road to improvement as a retreat leader.
Sure, the murder of the woman she had engaged to basically handle the entire sheep-to-shawl event put a knot in the plans. But, boy, Casey doesn't know how to punt. She didn't bother learning anyone's names. Her returning retreaters ended up picking up much of the slack because she was so ill-prepared. She hardly spent any time at her own retreat.
The first book in this series got me all excited about the idea of a yarn retreat. I would not have enjoyed this one.
I'm choosing to think of this as a bump in Casey's road to improvement as a retreat leader.
April 26, 2020
I'm enjoying the Yarn Retreat series by Betty Hechtman. Some clever titles in the series. Casey has always had a hard time finding the perfect career for herself. She finishes what she starts (law school) and moves on to other things -- like substitute teaching. But she has always loved to bake. When her Aunt died and left Casey her home in Cadbury by the Sea, Casey started baking for different establishments. Her Aunt also left her Knitting retreat business to Casey. Fun watching Casey learn to knit and find out just how much she enjoys the craft. Fun characters that I'm getting to know. Great series to settle down with a cup of tea, my knitting, and a kitty or two.
January 7, 2023
Feeling sheepish
Casey continues her aunt Joan’s retreat business, implementing an idea of a Sheep to Shawl retreat, where retreaters would learn to prepare wool, spin it into yarn, and make a small shawl from their hand spun yarn. Her plans are dealt a heavy blow when the woman who was to teach the wooly portion of the retreat is found dead of an apparent suicide, but Casey can’t quite accept that as true, and begins finding indicators that perhaps the woman’s death was not by choice. Someone is trying to pull the wool over her eyes - can she expose the wolf in sheep’s clothing before it’s too late?
Casey continues her aunt Joan’s retreat business, implementing an idea of a Sheep to Shawl retreat, where retreaters would learn to prepare wool, spin it into yarn, and make a small shawl from their hand spun yarn. Her plans are dealt a heavy blow when the woman who was to teach the wooly portion of the retreat is found dead of an apparent suicide, but Casey can’t quite accept that as true, and begins finding indicators that perhaps the woman’s death was not by choice. Someone is trying to pull the wool over her eyes - can she expose the wolf in sheep’s clothing before it’s too late?
September 16, 2020
This was pleasant! That's probably the best adjective. I love knitting, spinning, and whodunits, so this series felt like it was made for me. I've definitely found my new favorite cozy! I'll be reading every book in this series for sure.
I had to dock one star, however, because I saw the killer coming from a mile away - and I don't try to solve the mystery while reading. But I enjoyed Casey, the residents of Cadbury, and the descriptions of the retreat. Makes me want to go on a yarn retreat myself! But maybe one that's a little better planned...
I had to dock one star, however, because I saw the killer coming from a mile away - and I don't try to solve the mystery while reading. But I enjoyed Casey, the residents of Cadbury, and the descriptions of the retreat. Makes me want to go on a yarn retreat myself! But maybe one that's a little better planned...
November 13, 2020
2.5 Casey's retreat this book is "From Sheep to Shawl" and will include a sheep shearing and preparing the wool to use making the shawl. When Nicole is murdered, Casey has to find someone else to teach to fleece to wool portion. Casey knows nothing about running these retreats - annoying. It's just a darn cat - let it starve if it won't eat what's put before it. Tuna is NOT stink fish - too good for a cat. Overbearing mother - just put her in her place. Of course, if all of my objections were heeded, there would be no story.
July 31, 2017
Thoroughly enjoyed the concept and story. It made a change from the murder/mysteries where the main character is inv0lved with a yarn shop. This series is based around a yarn retreat business inherited by Casey who is a dessert chef, with the owners of the yarn shop as a separate story line. A murder happens quite near the beginning and Casey gets involved with solving the mystery. Book supplies a yarn project and recipes at the back. Recommend
November 29, 2020
This is definitely a popcorn read series, especially as an audiobook. Entertaining and easy to keep going with! Very enjoyable.
I didn't get the right killer this time, instead I fell down the wrong rabbit hole. I had the suspect pegged as significant in a completely different role. Still enjoyable as read, but I don't know how many books she can drag the romantic tension out through, it's beginning to get stale already.
I didn't get the right killer this time, instead I fell down the wrong rabbit hole. I had the suspect pegged as significant in a completely different role. Still enjoyable as read, but I don't know how many books she can drag the romantic tension out through, it's beginning to get stale already.
February 4, 2021
Casey is ready for the yarn retreat she has been planning. As the coordinator she thinks she has prepared for everything, until the woman who was supposed to do the work is found dead. Now what is she going to do? Besides trying to get the retreat back on track, she also wants to find out who killed her friend. The police call is suicide, but Casey does not believe that and is going to try to prove she is right.
August 3, 2017
A decent mystery. Maybe too many components that the sleuth kept to herself until the big reveal. I like the opportunity to try and solve it as I read but this book's plot line with the sleuth's secrets made that impossible. I will continue with the series but I hope to see some better details in the next one...
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