In Knit to Kill by Anne Canadeo, five friends from a knitting club go up the New England coast for a girls’ weekend in advance of Lucy’s upcoming marriage the following weekend. They stay at an expensive vacation home in Maine owned by the Amy and Rob, friends of Suzanne, and Maggie offers to give a special knitting lesson to residents of the posh community in their knitting club at the Mermaid Mansion the first night. But then the group of knitters gets interrupted by a group of men playing poker next door. Dr. Julian Morton is mocking a fellow player, Derek Pullman, for losing over $10,000 to the doctor, and Derek accuses Dr. Morton of having cheated, turning over the poker table as he storms out uttering threats.
The next morning, Lucy joins Maggie in attending a yoga class at the Mermaid Mansion, but the group is disrupted by the sounds of sirens as a line of police cars and an ambulance drives up the road. Before long, they learn that Dr. Morton has fallen off the cliff and died, but when a police officer questions the group of women staying at the house, they learn that his death is considered suspicious. The women decide not to get involved in the case, but when Rob becomes the chief suspect, they determine to help prove his innocence.
Knit to Kill was an enjoyable book, but I wish the first eight were on audio, as this is book nine, leaving me with some gaps in knowing the characters. I found it confusing, especially in the first half of the book, to keep straight the five women in the excursion group. Once I became able to keep the characters straight for the most part, the story became more interesting to me. I liked the way the women don’t insert themselves into the mystery but rather the way that they get involved because of circumstances that drag them into the case.
Alyssa Bresnahan performs the audio edition of this book, using excellent pacing to match the mood of the book. I would have liked more distinction among the voices of the characters, in particular the five women who go to the bachelorette weekend. But overall, I appreciated the quality of her narration.
I enjoyed listening to Knit to Kill. It was a pleasurable book without being intense. I found the denouement to be less than dramatic, a little bit of a let- down. I give this book four stars.
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