Yarn Shop in Colorado

After reading Yarn Over Murder, I realized why I stopped reading this series by Maggie Sefton. Although the premise is interesting - a circle of knitters in Colorado - the dialog is trite, the writing is simplistic and the characters spend way too much time on the minutiae of their daily lives. Too many times they are describing their meals in all too glorious detail, even to the point of letting the readers know they need to make a "pit stop." No thanks. I am not that interested.

With wildfires blazing Kelly and her friends from the Lampspun Knitting group are recruited to help evacuate alpacas from their friend Jayleen's ranch in the mountains. They move the alpacas to another ranch owned by Andrea, but that area becomes threatened as well. After witnessing a fierce argument among Andrea, Connie and Connie's ex-husband Jim (Andrea's new boyfriend), Kelly is concerned when she cannot reach Andrea.

Kelly and friends arrive at Andreas ranch to fine her ex-husband Dennis sobbing over Andrea's body.

From there the plot dips and rolls and winds up back at square one.

If you really want to read a story about knitters, I'd suggest Sally Goldenbaum's Seaside Knitters. See the earlier blog post on the Seaside Knitters.Other books by Maggie Sefton can be found here.