Hooking for Trouble

Zusatztext Praise for the National Bestselling Crochet Mysteries   “Gentle and charming...Quirky and likable characters.”—Earlene Fowler! national bestselling author of The Road to Cardinal Valley   “[A] charming mystery. Who can resist a sleuth named Pink! a slew of interesting minor characters! and a fun fringe-of-Hollywood setting?”—Monica Ferris! USA Today bestselling author of Knit Your Own Murder   “Crochet fans will love the patterns in the back! and others will enjoy unraveling the knots leading to the killer.”— Publishers Weekly   “A perfect group of crafters to have an armchair adventure with.”—Open Book Society Informationen zum Autor Betty Hechtman Klappentext Molly Pink can't help seeing a pattern of trouble in the latest mystery from the national bestselling author of Seams Like Murder. The Tarzana Hookers' Yarn University has been a big success! and the classes have drawn in a slew of new crochet devotees. A less welcome arrival is the boxy monstrosity in the yard behind Molly's house. She hasn't met her new neighbors! but when she sees a couple struggling on the balcony and later spies what looks like someone lying on the ground! Molly wastes no time calling in her ex! homicide detective Barry Greenberg. To Molly's shock! Barry reports that nothing is amiss with her neighbors and asks her to lay off with the amateur detecting. Molly knows she wasn't just seeing things! but with no body to prove her case she'll have to unravel the evidence on her own-because someone in Tarzana is tangled up in murder... DELICIOUS RECIPES & CROCHET PATTERNS INCLUDED! Leseprobe Chapter 1 "That yarn is going to choke me," Elise Belmont said, trying to pull the pink fibers off her tongue. More of them floated on the air, tickling the noses and sticking to the clothes of everyone in the vicinity of Adele Abrams. "I don't know what you're fussing about," Adele said, holding up the piece on her long crochet hook. The move made more of the mohairlike fibers come loose, and they floated my way. Before I could swipe them from the air, they'd landed on my black sweater. "I hope you're not using that yarn to teach the class," Mrs. Shedd told Adele. As an afterthought, she added, "You didn't buy it here, did you?" She looked at the rows of cubbies holding yarn in the back part of the bookstore. Adele was befuddled by everyone attacking her yarn. "No, I'm not using it for the class, and no, I didn't get it here. It's just the perfect color for my honeymoon shrug," she said. She held it out to display the color, and the whole group of Tarzana Hookers tried to shield their faces from the onslaught of loose fibers. Adele looked at the label on the skein of yarn. "It's just a mixture of mohair and some other stuff. I might have bought it at Bargain Circus," she said offhandedly. We were at one of what our crochet group, the Tarzana Hookers, called our happy hour get-togethers. Some people have a cocktail to release the tensions of the day-our group used crochet. The conversation and friendship probably helped, too. The Tarzana part of our name referred to the San Fernando Valley community, where Shedd & Royal Books and More was located. The bookstore where we met had a lot of space and had recently added a yarn department, which I was in charge of, along with my other duties as event coordinator and assistant manager. Adele Abrams worked at the bookstore as well. She was in charge of the children's department. It hadn't been her choice. Really, Adele had wanted the position I'd gotten when I was first hired: event coordinator. She'd been given the children's department as a consolation prize. Adele made an immediate segue from the honeymoon shrug to her upcoming wedding. "Have I shown you the photos of the ven...

About the author

Betty Hechtman is the national bestselling author of the Crochet Mysteries (most recently Seams Like Murder, Knot Guilty, For Better or Worsted and If Hooks Could Kill) and the Yarn Retreat Mysteries (Wound Up in Murder, Silence of the Lamb’s Wool and Yarn to Go). She has a degree in fine arts and since college has studied everything from tap dancing to magic. When she isn’t writing, reading or crocheting, she’s probably at the gym.

Product details

• Authors: Betty Hechtman
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780425279458
• ISBN: 978-0-425-27945-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 173 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Crochet Mysteries; A Crochet Mystery; Crochet Mystery; A Crochet Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense