Needled to Death (Knitting Mysteries, No. 2) [Large Print] [Paperback]

Maggie Sefton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2006

Taking a troop of tourists to Vickie Claymore's alpaca farm doesn't earn knitter Kelly Flynn a warm welcome. Instead she finds Vickie splayed out on her original hand-woven rug, her blood seeping into the design.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Wheeler Publishing (April 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597221899
• ISBN-13: 978-1597221894
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,281,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun afternoon read, December 12, 2005

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Coppertop (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Needled to Death (Knitting Mysteries, No. 2) (Paperback)

I had read the first book in this series and was delighted with this second offering. It was as cozy and fun as the first. Kelly's problems with knitting also made me feel good because I always have problems too! I like how the author is slowly setting Kelly up to be able to stay in Ft. Connors and setting up her relationship with Steve.
If you like cozy mysteries and knitting, this is definitely the book for you! Definitely a winning new series.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Long on the Cozy Chitchat and Knitting, But Short on the Mystery, February 28, 2007

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L. Kelly (Lakewood, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Needled to Death (Knitting Mysteries, No. 2) (Paperback)

"Needled to Death" is the second offering in the Knitting mystery series by Colorado author Maggie Sefton. Set in the summer, a few months after accountant Kelly Flynn has arrived in Fort Connor to deal with her murdered aunt's estate, the mystery revolves around the death of Vickie Claymore, an alpaca rancher. Kelly and her friend Jennifer volunteered to escort a knitting tour group to visit Vickie's alpaca ranch, only to find Vickie's body in her ranch house with her throat cut. Kelly finds herself further involved in Vickie's affairs when she is hired by Vickie's daughter Debbie to help her prepare financial documents for her mother's estate.

Meanwhile, Kelly continues on her journey of learning to knit, with lots of cozy camaraderie with her knitting buddies at Fort Connor's House of Lambspun. Being an avid knitter myself, I really enjoyed reading of Kelly's growth in knitting. I enjoyed the information about alpace ranching woven into this tale. Also, Kelly and her friends take a trip to Wyoming to inspect the ranch which Kelly inherited from her cousin.

This book was a very quick read, and the continuing development of the character of Kelly and her friends kept my attention. The book was a cozy and enjoyable one to read, I was just a little disappointed in the lack of development of the mystery. I hope that the next book in this series has a bit more mystery to it.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Loved The Knitting Stuff but..., February 25, 2006

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Holly Bracy (Holland, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Needled to Death (Knitting Mysteries, No. 2) (Paperback)

I really do love all the knitting references and descriptions and I am a new knitter like Kelly. However, the plot is very thin and the author has not researched her facts well. Without giving too much away, one of the plot devices in this book is inheritance issues. A woman is killed and her not-quite-divorced husband will share the inheritance of her successful alpaca ranch with her daughter. It is mentioned that if the daughter dies, the husband who is the daughter's hated step-father would inherit everything. Unless Colorado's inheritance laws are a lot different from the rest of the U.S., there is no way he would inherit from her. 1. Since she hated him, she would not have left him anything in a will. 2. If she died without a will and had no husband and children, he would still not inherit because he was not really related to her. Her other relatives would benefit, not the stepdad. The character of Kelly is a difficult one to relate to. And I wish the author would write with a bit more subtlety. Every time a character makes a joke or is even sarcastic, the author beats you over the head with it to make sure you knew it was a joke.