Purl Up and Die (A Knitting Mystery), by Maggie Sefton
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Purl Up and Die (A Knitting Mystery), by Maggie Sefton
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In the latest novel from the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Yarn Over Murder," Kelly Flynn and the Lambspun Knitters must unravel the truth from the lies to clear a friend s son suspected of murder Kelly Flynn s summer in Fort Connor, Colorado, is off to a great start with romantic celebrations with her boyfriend, Steve, and enjoyable albeit challenging knitting classes taught by her friend Barb at the House of Lambspun. But while Barb s advanced stitches are giving Kelly the slip, a more deadly problem soon has her friend coming apart at the seams. A young woman has accused Barb s son, Tommy a young doctor doing his residency of assaulting her. The yarns spun by the local rumor mill are bad enough, but when the young woman is found dead in her ransacked apartment, Tommy becomes the number one suspect. The police are ready to close the case, but Kelly is convinced that there are a few more likely suspects. Now she has to knit together the clues herself to uncover a killer who doesn t seem to drop a stitch..."
Purl Up and Die (A Knitting Mystery), by Maggie Sefton- Amazon Sales Rank: #6604142 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-25
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.70" h x 1.30" w x 5.70" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 383 pages
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful. Long review--hope I'm not the only one aggravated by some of these things. By Amanda Towne This review contains some spoilers.I honestly don't know what direction to take with this review. I've read every book in this series, and at first, I LOVED the books. Loved the characters. Loved the setting. For the last few books, I've found myself increasingly frustrated, and this latest book actually had me swearing at the author. Here is a list of things that annoyed me as I thumbed back through the book:*Cassie seems like a nice kid. Could we stop fixating on her so much? I'm not reading this series to hear over and over that she's grown THREE AND A HALF inches, or that she's learning how to cook over a campfire, or how her baseball skills are improving. Also, Cassie does NOT talk like your average American teenager. I have three of them. I know. Too precocious and at the same time, too innocent. (Same with Eric--no 13 year old boy is going to talk about how he doesn't understand girls to a group of 30-somethings.)*I'm sick to death of every conversation Kelly has being related three or four times. It's boring. It's sheer laziness on the part of the author. This happens over and over in the book. Kelly talks to a friend, another friend walks over, they repeat THE EXACT information that was just relayed to the reader. GAH!*How is not rude to refer to Barb as "Big Barb"? I can't think of one woman in my life who would want to be called that.*Lack of character development / stories moving forward---Honestly, most of the time I read these cozy mysteries for the PEOPLE. I want to see them move forward in their lives. Kelly & Steve's relationship seems stagnant, mostly because we don't see enough interaction between them. They had exactly one date in this book, and one "let's have dessert at home" *wink, wink* does not a sexy relationship make or even imply. Yes, Pete & Jennifer are growing in their ability to parent Cassie. Megan & Marty are having a baby. But KELLY is the main character, and both her professional and personal lives seem like an afterthought (and the murder plot isn't strong enough to distract us from this!).*Kelly is not that funny. Why everyone is constantly cracking up at what she says is beyond me.*The dialogue is not well-written. I find myself constantly thinking, "No one really TALKS like that!"*The over-use of the words "sleuth" and "sleuthing" make me scream. Does the author not have a thesaurus? Can Kelly not detect? Investigate? It feels like such an old-fashioned word. I love old-fashioned words, and actually have a large vocabulary, but every time the author uses "sleuth" I find myself screaming, "No one uses that word anymore!! Especially not supposedly young-ish, hip professionals!" (This has bothered me since the very first Kelly Flynn mystery.)*We get it--Kelly drinks a lot of coffee. Enough. It's not a fun quirk anymore. Instead of there being an actual plot, it felt like half of the book chronicled Kelly's many cups of coffee.*The author's random capitalization of things. Youthful Confidence. Succumb to the Call of the Grill. Overprotective Mother Barb. Beloved Son Tommy.*Carl, the dog. Why does Kelly even have a dog? All he does is stay out in her yard and chase squirrels. Why do we have to hear about it multiple times in every book? It never changes. Why does the squirrel have to have a name? It just seems like filler. And it's BORING.*Realizing this book that Curt's & Burt's names rhyme. I think by the time it occurred to me, I was so aggravated by everything else that this put me over the edge. :)*I could play a drinking game: every time Kelly wants to talk to Burt, or Burt wants to talk to Kelly, take a drink. I would be hammered by the time I was half-way through the book.*The author's insistence on using "Ohhhhhh", "Ahhhhhh", "Yeahhhhhh", like the reader can't figure out how to read the sentence with the proper accent on interjections. This drives me NUTS. In my head, every time the author writes that, I hear Buckwheat from the Little Rascals in my head, "Ohhhhhhhhhh-TAY!"*How naive the characters seemed regarding the plot in this book. People in positions of authority or power sometimes take advantage of young women? SHOCKING. It's awful and shouldn't be tolerated, but they all seemed SO surprised that it happens. It felt like the author was trying to shove a public service announcement down the readers' throats. A poorly articulated PSA, since most of the dialogue was about how the accused's life was ruined, and the accuser turned out to be lying. (Also annoying, the depiction of every college student as too drunk and irresponsible to lock their front door.)*Beating the reader over the head with the fact that Mimi is maternal and Burt is paternal. WE GET IT. They're parental figures in the book. It doesn't have to be articulated again and again.*Constant dialogue about the weather. It's hot in Colorado in the summer. WE KNOW. They have a rainy season. WE GET IT. And yes, in real life, if it's scorching out, or raining buckets, I will mention it to every friend I encounter. In a book, though, it just comes across like the author didn't know what else to have the characters talk about. So it's yarn, coffee, eating, weather, yarn, baseball, coffee, Carl, weather, yarn, baseball, eating, Carl.......the whole book felt like it was on a loop.*Kelly's "buzzer* that alerts her when she hears something important or has a breakthrough about the investigation. Who is she, Spiderman? It's an overly cute affectation, and Kelly is smarter than that!*How is it, no matter WHERE Kelly is, she is able to procure the one table that allows for private conversation? And why does it have to be mentioned every time it happens?*Remind me again why we're supposed to care about Tommy? We don't see him IN PERSON for the entire book. Everything about him or that happens to him is relayed by someone else. Same thing with the woman who accuses him. They're both like shadows in the book.*The actual culprit in this murder mystery was glaringly obvious, and completely anti-climactic when it was revealed. Kelly and Burt actually come across as admiring the murderer.*All of the "educational" moments in the book. It's not enough that the yarn shop is full of beautiful colors and fibers, we need little lessons on flax and bamboo and spinning techniques. Since the main character hasn't grown in her knitting abilities (she's constantly saying how much of a novice she is), all of the extra knitting talk seems extraneous. All of the informative passages just come across as pedantic.*Does the author get kick-backs from Fat Tire Ale?A couple of specific instances that bugged me:*Page 245 references Jayleen's estranged children from her first marriage, and Jayleen says, "...Cassie has filled a hole in my heart I never knew I had." As a mother, this struck me the wrong way--if your children aren't with you or in your life, you think of them every day. For the author to have Jayleen say she didn't realize something was missing is honestly just lazy writing. There had to be a way for Jayleen to acknowledge how important Cassie is to her, without making it sound like she had forgotten her own kids.*(p.291) "Back East they called the end of July and beginning of August the dog days." They call those months "the dog days of summer" everywhere. Not just in the East. I'm not sure why the author is under the impression that we own that expression here in the East.The author seems like a genuinely nice person (I follow her on FB and her Cozy Chicks blog). And this series has the bones to be a great series. The last few books, though (and especially this most recent one), just smack of FORMULA. Kelly gets coffee, Kelly pets her dog, Kelly talks to Burt, Oh a murder!, Kelly plays baseball, Kelly gets coffee, Oh a clue!, etc. I just don't know if I can subject myself to another installment of "Greg eats a lot and Cassie is fascinated by how to make fringe."
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Not worth the cost. By Lauren A. McDevitt All Kelly does is drink coffee. Author tells the same story over and over to inform other characters throughout the book.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Boring By marian anderson Its sad that this series has gotten predictable and trite. This will be the last one I waste time reading
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