Needled to Death

Needled to Death by Annelise Ryan is the first book in A Helping Hands Mystery series. Social worker, Hildy Schneider, runs a grief support group when a newcomer enlists the groups help to look into the death of her son which has been put down as a drug overdose but whom she believes was murdered. I......more

Hildy Schneider is a social worker at Sorenson General Hospital in Wisconsin. She also runs Grief Support meetings in her spare time. A new member of the group, Sharon Cochran, is grief stricken over her son's suicide. She tells the group that she doesn't believe her son took his own life. Sharon th......more

I have long been a friend of Annelise Ryan and I was pleased to download this book and review it. The first book in a new A Helping Hands series. The protagonist is a social worker and in charge of Therapy Department of Sorenson Hospital. In her grief forum she learns the murder of the son of grief-......more

Annalise Ryan's new Helping Hands series is a winner. As a longtime fan of Ryan's Mattie Winston series, I was excited to read the debut of the new series. To my pleased surprise, this new series focuses on a character introduced in her last book, Hildy Schneider, a hospital social worker. And we me......more

Needled to Death is the first book in Annelise Ryan’s A Helping Hands Mystery series. The storyline is well and flows at a steady pace. This is a little grittier than your typical cozy mystery, but it does contain all of the requisite cozy elements and doesn’t include graphic violence, gratuitous ad......more