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Rent Patterns in the Sand: A Seaside Knitters Mystery
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Published: Apr 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $16.00
Ages: 17 - 17 Pages: 320
Synopsis
The follow-up to Death by Cashmere: next in the new mystery series set in a tight-knit seaside community.
When young fiber artist Willow Adams visits Izzy Chambers's knitting studio, she's immediately embraced by the Seaside knitters, and they see the monthly arts event at Canary Cove as a perfect place to showcase Willow's work. But the idyllic summer in Sea Harbor turns somber when the body of Nick Peabody-owner of a popular gallery-is found in a community garden. Soon all Nick's secrets begin to surface, and the residents of Sea Harbor realize they didn't know him at all. And when Nick's will reveals that his entire estate has been left to Willow, the knitters find that Willow has some dark secrets of her own...
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Reviews
I might have liked this book if it were several chapters less. It seems to just drag on. There�s a lot of repetition of unnecessary details � I got very tired of hearing about the knit caps for cancer patients that would �comfort� a head that had lost its hair and I�m a cancer patient!. Also, the author seems to find it necessary to describe every mouthful of every meal, and every stitch of every knitting project being worked on. The story, what there is of it, is lost among all the extraneous details. I understand adding color to a story, but it�s way overdone. Finally, I find Izzy a tiresome character � she�s always so perfect, according to her friends and neighbors, from her ponytail to the yarn she orders for her store. It gets boring. This book should have been a quick read, but I kept falling asleep!