Knot Guilty (Crochet Mystery, #9)

by Betty Hechtman

Molly Pink and her crochet group, the Tarzana Hookers, get a crash course in murder—from the national bestselling author of For Better or Worsted…

Molly and her friends can’t wait to get people hooked on crochet at the annual SoCal Knit Style Show.  This year, for the first time ever, the knitting show also features crochet, including crochet classes and a crochet competition.

The show’s organizer is K. D. Kirby, publisher of several knitting magazines and owner of an elite Beverly Hills yarn store. Concern when K.D. doesn’t show up for the opening reception turns into shock when she’s found dead in her hotel suite.

Suspicion falls on Adele, one of the Tarzana Hookers who locked horns with K.D., and whose handmade crochet hook is found at the murder scene. Certain that Adele’s been framed, Molly starts her own investigation, hoping to get their pal off the hook, and find a killer before another guest checks out…

• ISBN10: 0425252671
• ISBN13: 9780425252673
• Publish Date: 3 November 2015 (first published 4 November 2014)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 304
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780425252673

Reviews

[lovelybookshelf]

This was a little campy and a whole lot of fun to read! It's centered around a crochet group that meets in a bookstore, which also sells yarn and coffee. How perfect is that? And in this case, they enter the world of knitters. I've been on the receiving end of that weird "knitting is the best, real yarn crafters don't crochet" snobbery, so I laughed as that dynamic is made fun of throughout the book. I had a feeling about "whodunit" pretty early on, but second-guessed myself along the way (my original hunch ended up being correct!). It's part of a series, and apparently this is book 9 of 13, but that didn't matter. This enjoyable cozy mystery is light reading in all the best ways.