Murder Drops a Stitch

Murder Drops a Stitch — Book 4 of The Thistlewood Tea & Treats Mysteries. The knitting circle meets on Thursdays. This Thursday, one chair stays empty.

A sudden loss, a post-mortem that says more than the village wants to hear, and a pattern knitted into a cap that should not be there. Harriet has private concerns she is not sharing. A button becomes a lead. Priscilla Daunt has a background worth reading twice. The stitches, it turns out, have been keeping a record all along — for anyone patient enough to read them.

What to expect

• A craft-club cozy with a genuinely clever physical clue
• Small-town suspicion handled with warmth rather than cruelty
• Standalone, fair-play mystery

About the series

Thistlewood is an English village with a tea shop at its heart, a cat with a habit of turning up at the wrong moment, and rather more secrets than its size suggests. These are cosy mysteries in the traditional sense: an amateur sleuth, a closed circle of suspects, clues laid fairly on the page, and no graphic violence or gore.

Every book stands completely on its own — start anywhere — though readers who follow the series will keep meeting Pearl Whitmore, Clara Webb, Biscuit the cat and the rest of the village. 75 pages.

Browse the whole series in Cozy Mysteries, try the Romance Novels shelf, or explore the full Arb Digital Library.

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