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Death by Cashmere: A Seaside Knitters Mystery by Sally Goldenbaum
Cover Artist: Doug Martin/121 Art
Review by Gayle Surrette
NAL Trade Paperback  ISBN/ITEM#: 9780451225535
Date: 07 April 2009 List Price $14.00 Amazon US / Amazon UK / Show Article /

[NOTE: We're re-running our review of the hardcover from our September 2008 issue.]

Izzy Chambers has left Boston for Sea Harbor, Massachusetts and doesn't want to look back on her law career; she wants instead to concentrate on her new business: Seaside Knitting Studio. She's rented the apartment over the studio to Angie Archer. Angie seems to evoke strong emotions in the townspeople with her reputation for wildness. Angie doesn't knit but she does look great in the sample sweater that Izzy lent her to wear as advertisement for the shop. But Angie doesn't return from her date, her movements were erratic that night, and when her body turns up, it seems the police just want the case closed and don't care how she died. It's up to Izzy and her friends to find the real killer.

From official release/information:

Product Description: Now in trade paperback—the new mystery series that spins a yarn about knitters and murder in a seaside village.

Not long after Isabel "Izzy" Chambers opens up a knitting shop in the sleepy fishing town of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, a diverse group of women begins congregating each week to form the Seaside Knitters.

Izzy raises some eyebrows when she rents the apartment above her shop to Angie Archer, whose reputation for loose behavior and a quick temper has made her unpopular with many locals. But could any of them have wanted her dead? Angie's body is discovered drowned in the harbor, her long red hair tangled like seaweed in a lobster trap.

An official investigation rules the death an accident. There are speculations of too many whiskey sours, a slippery wharf, a dark night…But Izzy and the Seaside Knitters smell something fishy. When several strange incidents occur above the shop, the women decide to take matters into their own hands. But before long, their small-town sense of security is frayed, and the threat of more violence hangs over this tightly knit community…

(Source: NAL)

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