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Like every coastal town, Sea Harbor needs tourists and their dollars. But there's something special about that time of year when summer people return to their normal lives, and the wide sandy beaches welcome back locals with their dogs and strollers. And this year, even as the season cools down, Izzy Perry's Sea Harbor Yarn Studio is heating up, thanks to an upcoming fashion benefit . . .
The show will feature hand-knit garments, and enthusiastic knitters flock to the shop for supplies. Yet Seaside Knitter Birdie is enjoying flocks of a different kind, thanks to a rekindled interest in
bird-watching, a hobby she enjoyed with her late husband. Along with a small group, she often spends weekend mornings looking for warblers or keeping watch for gannets and grebes. The group members themselves are almost as fascinating as the birds. It's a lovely time—until Birdie stumbles upon a fellow birder's body amid a tangle of branches.
At first, it appears to be an accidental fall, but an autopsy reveals otherwise. When police discover a clue linking the victim to a young woman from Sea Harbor, the web of suspicion grows. Now, before the knitters have cast off the final rows on their runway projects, they'll have to unravel secrets and ties strong enough to bind friends and neighbors together—and some that may press a killer to take another life.
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- ISBN: 9781496729453
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- ISBN: 9781496729453
- File size: 12963 KB
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October 15, 2023
The Seaside Knitters, who have a long record of solving murders, face a particularly knotty case. Both octogenarian Birdie Favazza, the Knitters' leader, and Nell Endicott, aunt of yarn shop owner Izzy Perry and friend to lobster company owner Cass Halloran Brandley, are worried by a sudden schism between twin sisters Rose and Jillian Anderson. Although she's only minutes older, Rose has always been Jillian's protector. For reasons unknown, she's taken a violent dislike to Josh Elliott, a brilliant teacher, birder, and all-around nice guy. Jillian is currently doing a teaching practicum while Rose works at a gallery and both help with a knitting fashion show. Birdie, meanwhile, has followed her name and taken up bird-watching. Walking a path through the woods, she comes upon the lifeless body of Josh Elliott, whose death was no accident. Since everyone in Sea Harbor knows that Rose was no fan of Josh, she naturally becomes a suspect. Sure that their caring, talented friend did not kill Josh, the Knitters start looking at other possibilities. Josh's students loved him, but his teaching style and the freedom he was given to pursue it did not sit well with all his colleagues. Even some of the bird-watching group seemed jealous of his abilities. Rose, who's keeping a family secret that goes to the heart of her dislike of Josh, is loath to break a promise to her late mother and reveal it. So it's up to the knitters to find the truth and expose a killer. Heartwarming comfort food.COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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