Death of a Knit Wit (Knit & Nibble Mystery, #8)

by Peggy Ehrhart

With the help of her friends in the Knit and Nibble Club, crafting magazine editor, widower, and amateur sleuth Pamela Paterson must solve the murder of an adulterous professor during a weekend-long knitting bee and fiber arts conference in the eighth Knit & Nibble Mystery from cozy author Peggy Ehrhart.
 

When a professor is poisoned, Pamela Paterson and the members of the Knit and Nibble knitting club must take a crash course in solving his mysterious murder.

Pamela has organized a weekend-long knitting bee as part of a conference on fiber arts and crafts at Wendelstaff College. But when pompous Professor Robert Greer-Gordon Critter, the keynote speaker at the conference, crashes the bee, he seems more interested in flirting than knitting. The man’s reputation as a philanderer supersedes his academic reputation. After coffee and cookies are served, the professor suddenly collapses, seemingly poisoned—but how? Everyone had the coffee and cookies. Joined by her bestie Bettina and the Knit and Nibble ladies, Pamela sorts through everything from red socks to red herrings to unravel the means and motives of a killer dead set on teaching the professor a lesson…
 

• ISBN10: 1496733908
• ISBN13: 9781496733900
• Publish Date: 22 February 2022
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Kensington
• Edition: 304th Revised edition
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 320
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781496733900

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally posted on my blog Nonstop Reader.

Death of a Knit Wit is the 8th Knit & Nibble cozy mystery by Dr. Peggy Ehrhart. Released 22nd Feb 2022 by Kensington, it's 320 pages and is available in paperback, audio, and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately.

This is a well written and engaging cozy, complete with amateur sleuths who are expert knitters, a suspicious death to get the ball rolling, and lots and lots of food descriptions and goings on in a small town. The characters were varied and well rendered and I had no trouble keeping them separated in my head.

The pool of suspects is small, and although the denouement and resolution are fairly easy to guess beforehand, they're well written and satisfying. Although it's the eighth book in the series, it works perfectly well as a standalone. The language is clean, with no graphic violence or sexual content. This would be a good choice for lovers of light cozies, the kind with recipes in the back of the book, in this particular case a knitted hat and plum turnovers. There are now 8 books in the series, with a 9th due out in 2023, making this a good candidate for a binge read.

Four stars. This will appeal to lovers of small-town cozy mysteries.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.