A leisurely investigation into a murder with plenty of time for beautiful scenery, delicious food, and, of course, knitting.
A pre-wedding getaway is interrupted by murder.
The members of the Black Sheep knitting group are busily preparing for Lucy Binger's nuptials when real estate agent Suzanne Cavanaugh proposes a stress-relieving long weekend at Osprey Shores, a gated community on a coastal Maine island where her college roommate, Amy Cutler, has a spare cottage they can use for free. Knit-shop owner Maggie, her talented young assistant, Phoebe, Lucy, and Dana all pile into Suzanne’s SUV and head for Maine. Their first night, as Maggie is giving a knitting class at the refurbished mansion that anchors the community, the group is disturbed by a loud argument from a nearby card room, where Derek Pullman accuses Dr. Julian Morton of cheating. The next morning Phoebe heads for the cliff walk to take pictures of birds while the rest go to the yoga class offered by Meredith Quinn, the ex-wife of Julian Morton, whose current wife, Tanya, also joins the class, which is soon disturbed by loud sirens. They learn that Julian fell over the cliff to his death and that he might have been pushed. Although the group has had sleuthing experience (Till Death Do Us Purl, 2012, etc.), the women prefer to not get involved until Amy’s husband becomes a suspect. Julian was a despicable person whose whole life had been littered with nasty incidents and others’ suffering. Both his wives hated him. So did the son he recently cut out of his will. He stole a valuable medical discovery from Amy’s husband and sold it as his own. As a young man, he’d pushed the brother of another Osprey resident into a campfire. Those are just the people who live nearby; who knows how many others may have hated him enough to kill him?
A leisurely investigation into a murder with plenty of time for beautiful scenery, delicious food, and, of course, knitting.Pub Date: Oct. 31, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4967-0861-8
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Kensington
Review Posted Online: Aug. 6, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 2017
An anodyne visit with Tricia and her friends and enemies hung on a thin mystery.
Too much free time leads a New Hampshire bookseller into yet another case of murder.
Now that Tricia Miles has Pixie Poe and Mr. Everett practically running her bookstore, Haven’t Got a Clue, she finds herself at loose ends. Her wealthy sister, Angelica, who in the guise of Nigela Ricita has invested heavily in making Stoneham a bookish tourist attraction, is entering the amateur competition for the Great Booktown Bake-Off. So Tricia, who’s recently taken up baking as a hobby, decides to join her and spends a lot of time looking for the perfect cupcake recipe. A visit to another bookstore leaves Tricia witnessing a nasty argument between owner Joyce Widman and next-door neighbor Vera Olson over the trimming of tree branches that hang over Joyce’s yard—also overheard by new town police officer Cindy Pearson. After Tricia accepts Joyce’s offer of some produce from her garden, they find Vera skewered by a pitchfork, and when Police Chief Grant Baker arrives, Joyce is his obvious suspect. Ever since Tricia moved to Stoneham, the homicide rate has skyrocketed (Poisoned Pages, 2018, etc.), and her history with Baker is fraught. She’s also become suspicious about the activities at Pets-A-Plenty, the animal shelter where Vera was a dedicated volunteer. Tricia’s offered her expertise to the board, but president Toby Kingston has been less than welcoming. With nothing but baking on her calendar, Tricia has plenty of time to investigate both the murder and her vague suspicions about the shelter. Plenty of small-town friendships and rivalries emerge in her quest for the truth.
An anodyne visit with Tricia and her friends and enemies hung on a thin mystery.Pub Date: Aug. 13, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-9848-0272-9
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Berkley
Review Posted Online: May 26, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2019
A murder is committed in a stalled transcontinental train in the Balkans, and every passenger has a watertight alibi. But Hercule Poirot finds a way.
**Note: This classic Agatha Christie mystery was originally published in England as Murder on the Orient Express, but in the United States as Murder in the Calais Coach. Kirkus reviewed the book in 1934 under the original US title, but we changed the title in our database to the now recognizable title Murder on the Orient Express. This is the only name now known for the book. The reason the US publisher, Dodd Mead, did not use the UK title in 1934 was to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel, Orient Express.
Pub Date: Feb. 28, 1934
ISBN: 978-0062073495
Page Count: -
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1934
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