Here for your reading consideration during these cold winter days are a few lighthearted crafty mystery series.
Anastasia Pollack Crafting mysteries (M)
by Lois Winston
Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun - "When Anastasia Pollack's husband permanently cashes in his chips at a
roulette table in Vegas, her comfortable middle-class life is suddenly
kaput. She's left with two teenage sons, a mountain of debt, and her
hateful, cane-wielding Communist motherin-law. Not to mention stunned
disbelief over her late husband's secret gambling addiction, and the
loan shark who's demanding fifty thousand dollars. Anastasia's job as
crafts editor for a magazine proves no respite when she discovers a dead
body glued to her office chair. The victim, fashion editor Marlys
Vandenburg, collected enemies and ex-lovers like Jimmy Choos on her
ruthless climb to editor-in-chief.But when evidence surfaces of an
illicit affair between Marlys and Anastasia's husband, Anastasia becomes
the number one suspect." Fantastic Fiction
Black Sheep Knitting Club mysteries (M)
by Anne Canadeo
While My Pretty One Knits - "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"
Needlecraft Mysteries (M)
by Monica Ferris
Stitch in Time - "Betsy is settling into Excelsior, MN, and so is winter. But duty
calls: an old tapestry has been found in the Episcopal Church, and it
needs restoration. This is a job for Crewel World – and a pleasant one,
after that poor skeleton. Better an old tapestry than an old body! Since this is Minnesota, when Betsy is beset, her friends bring hot-dish."
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