Molly and her friends can’t wait to get more people hooked on crochet at the annual SoCal Knit Style Show, where Shedd & Royal has been granted a vendor booth. In the past, the show has always been about knitting, and this is the first year there’ll be crochet classes and a crochet competition.
The show’s organizer is K. D. Kirby, publisher of several knitting magazines and owner of a yarn store that caters to an elite Beverly Hills crowd. Everyone is shocked when K.D. doesn’t show up for the opening reception, but that’s nothing compared to how they feel when she’s finally found—dead in her hotel suite.
Suspicion immediately falls on Adele, one of the Tarzana Hookers, who locked horns with K.D., and whose handmade crochet hook is found at the murder scene. Certain that Adele’s been framed, Molly starts her own investigation, hoping to get their pal off the hook and find a killer before another guest checks out…
DELICIOUS RECIPES & CROCHET PATTERNS INCLUDED!
By Betty Hechtman
It is fun to do guest posts and hard at the same time. What
to write? To be honest, I couldn’t think of a a subject for this blog
until I remembered one of my secret solutions in the problem solving
department.
But here’s the problem. It is really so short and direct, it
is hard to fill a whole blog post with it. Just like the whole point of
most diets is eat less and move more and yet people fill books saying just that
in long complicated ways. What to eat, when to eat it, how to exercise,
blah, blah, blah. The second half of the books are usually recipes.
All those pages and tricky maneuvers and really all they’re saying can be said
in a sentence.
I could probably pad my solution with lots of steps, and
examples. Make it seem complicated like all those diets that tell you to
combine certain food, or eat before a particular time. I could tell you
that you had to follow some kind of exact order of steps and insist you could
only use my favorite kind of pen.
But I’m not going to do that. The whole point of the
solution is that it is simple, direct and easily available.
So here is the situation. I have hit a wall about what
happens next in a book. Molly is in jeopardy and unless I come up with
some clever solution, the bad guy is going to do awful things to her. Or
what about the men in her life? They are just standing around in my mind,
giving me looks saying give us some dialogue, preferably something witty.
Well, and both Mason and Barry are trying to convince me that I should write
Molly into their arms.
Or I have reached a dark moment when all seems lost and I can’t
think how to save it. Worst of all I can’t come up with a beginning
scene. The more I try, the worse it gets. You get the picture.
Get ready, I’m coming to the easy direct solution. Somewhere
between the time I go to bed and drift off to asleep I tell myself that I am
stuck and that I would really like a solution by morning. And then I
forget about it.
In the morning I don’t flip my eyes open with a big AHA moment.
Generally I don’t even remember that I asked myself for help. When I do
remember about being stuck, I realize there was no big AHA moment and I
temporarily panic and think this is the time it isn’t going to work. But
I tell myself to have some faith. I get coffee, pen and paper and start
to write something, anything. Maybe the color of the sky, or what kind of
clouds are floating by. Usually the writing morphs into something else
after that and the answer I asked for appears. Characters start talking
and doing things. I seem to need to handwrite. I think for me there
is special connection between my brain and the pen. The only problem is
that I will start writing so fast that my handwriting become unintelligible
even to me. But having the words land on the paper even if I can’t read
them does something. They are out in the open now and when I go to the
computer, they come back to me.
So, you see this is a long way of saying if you have a problem
with writing or maybe your life, tell yourself to work on in your sleep and
most likely you’ll have an answer in the morning.
Betty Hechtman writes two national best selling yarn related
series for Berkley Prime Crime. KNOT GUILTY and FOR BETTER OR WORSTED are
her latest in the Crochet series and SILENCE OF THE LAMB’S WOOL is the latest
in the Yarn Retreat series. All books in both series feature patterns and
recipes.
In addition, she has just released Stolen Treasure, a Blue
Schwartz Mystery as an e-book. Formerly published as Blue Schwartz and
Nefertiti’s Necklace, it features a 13 year-old babysitter who loves to cook
and is accused of stealing a priceless necklace. Three of Blue’s favorite
recipes are included in the book.
The Hookers have to be one of my all time favorite groups of cozy characters. They are simply amazing. I love all of their personalities... so much fun! :) I also love Molly. She is the perfect protagonist for this series, and her quirks are what make her so enjoyable to read.
In this installment of the series, we are given a unique murder mystery to solve, and with Molly and her cast of characters, it's always a treat! The writing is great, the plotting is wonderful, and the flow of the story is perfect. I truly enjoyed reading this book and I'm looking forward to the next! :)
Rating 4.5 stars
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All conclusions are my own.
In this installment of the series, we are given a unique murder mystery to solve, and with Molly and her cast of characters, it's always a treat! The writing is great, the plotting is wonderful, and the flow of the story is perfect. I truly enjoyed reading this book and I'm looking forward to the next! :)
Rating 4.5 stars
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All conclusions are my own.
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