The motives for their behavior were no surprise to me either. I think this is quite obvious to the reader. The murderer turned out to be the person I suspected from the very beginning. Was I surprised by the identity of the murderer? Absolutely not. The plot is also fine, although nothing out of the ordinary for this genre.
And here we have some insights from the outside and from the inside at the same time. There are so many books in which the main characters and often also the narrators are shop owners or people suspected of murder. She may be a whiz at knitting, but can she keep the police from needling her before her shop, her reputation, and her circle of friends become unraveled?įor some reason, after reading the blurb I expected the main character to be Meggie. But the pointed evidence has a detective casting a suspicious eye on Maggie. Then again, it wasn't hard to dislike Amanda - the contentious woman, whose marriage was on the rocks, seemed to specialize in causing misery all over town. Maggie had reasons to dislike Amanda, a thorn in her side ever since Maggie's shop surpassed Amanda's in popularity. But the celebration is upstaged when Amanda Goran, the owner of the rival Knitting Nest, is found dead in her shop on the other side of town.
Maggie Messina, beloved owner of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop, is thrilled to be hosting a workshop for one of her former students, now a celebrity in the knitting world. Now a shocking murder has peaceful Plum Harbor, Massachusetts, in knots - and the Black Sheep women must herd together to protect one of their own from a scandalous frame-up. The Black Sheep Knitters - Maggie, Lucy, Dana, Suzanne, and Phoebe - meet once a week without fail, sharing the varied and colorful skeins of their lives as much as knitting tips, recipes, and small-town gossip, and creating an intricate, durable pattern of friendship.
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