A Wicked Yarn, Emmie Caldwell
A Wicked Yarn, Emmie Caldwell
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A Wicked Yarn
A Craft Fair Knitters Mystery

Author: Emmie Caldwell

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Unabridged: 7 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/27/2021

Synopsis

A killer may craft the perfect crime, but as every knitter worth her yarn knows—murder wool out.Mother’s Day should be a cinch for the good folks of the Crandalsburg Craft Fair, and knitting enthusiast Lia Geiger has a good feeling about this year’s yield. But things quickly get knotty when Lia’s daughter announces she’s quit her job and Lia finds herself tangled up in the murder of her best friend’s ex-husband. While Belinda’s alibi quickly gets her off the hook, nasty rumors spread throughout Crandalsburg that shroud the entire fair in suspicion.Could the vendors be responsible for the murder of a man hell-bent on unraveling the fair just days before his death? Lia and her crafty group of Ninth Street Knitters must put down their needles to gather clues and save the crafting community they’ve grown to love.

About Emmie Caldwell

Emmie Caldwell is the national bestselling author of the Keepsake Cove Mysteries, the Pickled and Preserved Mysteries, the Craft Corner Mysteries, and the Maggie Olenski Mysteries, written under the name Mary Ellen Hughes. A native of Wisconsin, she’s lived most of her adult life in Maryland, which has inspired many of her stories.

About Janet Metzger

Janet Metzger, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, has performed as a stage, television, voice, and film actor and as a jazz vocalist in hotels and supper clubs. For five years she was the voice of Headline News, now HLN, during which time she also promoted features and news stories for CNN and CNN International. She is a graduate of Florida State University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark

After the loss of her husband, Lia Geiger moves to a new town in Pennsylvania and starts selling things she and her knitting friends make at a local craft fair run by her best friend, Belinda. She’s expecting to sell lots of items over Mother’s Day weekend, and Saturday is great. But when she arrive......more

Goodreads review by Lisa Ks Book Reviews

A WICKED YARN is my first book of 2021. All I can say is, if the rest of the books I read this year are half as good, I'm in for some fabulous reading! Author Emmie Caldwell's (Mary Ellen Hughes) debut book in the Craft Fair Knitters is going to be a lot for the author to live up too. Like the pilot......more

Goodreads review by Alan

When Lia Geiger's friend Belinda becomes the main suspect in a murder, amateur sleuth Lia springs into action. The protagonist in this charming cozy is likable, and the secondary characters are realistic and relatable. The plot is well-conceived. There are plenty of suspects with believable motives.......more

Quotes

“A delightful, well-crafted mystery!” Essie Lang, author of the Castle Bookshop Mysteries

“Charming, crafty, and so very cozy! Emmie Caldwell has stitched together an entertaining, well-plotted mystery that’s as cozy as a favorite sweater.” Sarah Fox, author of Much Ado about Nutmeg

“Down-to-earth characters and an interesting motive spice up this debut.” Kirkus Reviews

“This heart-warming mystery knits together family and friends in pursuit of a cunning killer.” Maya Corrigan, author of the Five-Ingredient Mystery series

“Knit together an interesting older protagonist, an astute knitting group, a friend accused of murder, a daughter with secrets, and you have a purl of a mystery.” Sherry Harris, author of the Sarah Winston Garage Sale mysteries

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