Murder, She Knit - A Knit and Nibble Mystery Book 1 by Peggy Ehrhart Book Tour and Giveaway :)
Murder,
She Knit
A
Knit & Nibble Mystery Book 1
by
Peggy Ehrhart
Genre:
Cozy Mystery
Since
her only daughter left for college, widow Pamela Paterson has kept
busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of the Knit
and Nibble knitting club in quaint Arborville, New Jersey. Now, she’s
trying out a new hobby—solving murders!
Pamela
is hosting the next Knit and Nibble meeting and can’t wait to liven
up her otherwise empty home with colorful yarn, baking, and a little
harmless gossip. She even recruits Amy Morgan, an old friend who
recently moved to town, as the group’s newest member. But on the
night of the gathering, Amy doesn’t show. Not until Pamela finds
the woman dead outside—a knitting needle stabbed through the front
of her handmade sweater . . .
Someone
committed murder before taking off with Amy’s knitting bag, and
Pamela realizes that only she can spot the deadly details hidden in
mysterious skeins. But when another murder occurs, naming the
culprit—and living to spin the tale—will be more difficult than
Pamela ever imagined . . .
Knitting
tips and delicious recipe included!
Pamela glanced around for the cat-food
dish. It was nowhere to be seen on the porch. Reluctant to have a
plastic dish littering her yard as early risers passed on the way to
bus stops or school, she headed down the steps. Between the full moon
and the streetlamp, the yard could be seen clearly. The front walk
was a silver ribbon of concrete, with a few fallen leaves scattered
here and there. The lawn was a soft gray, mottled with more leaves.
That soft gray darkened into the shadows along the hedge that divided
Pamela’s yard from the property of the church next door. Pamela
ventured onto the lawn, puzzled about where the dish could have
gotten to. Catrina was often so enthusiastic about her food that
Pamela had watched through the oval window in the front door as the
cat nudged the dish across the porch floor and down the steps. Well,
she decided, the dish clearly wasn’t littering the lawn. It would
turn up in daylight, and if not, a plastic dish was no great loss.
But as she turned toward the house to go back in, she noticed a flash
of white among the shadows under the hedge. Pamela’s porch spanned
the front of her house, and between the porch and hedge there was
only a narrow corridor leading past the side of the house and into
the backyard. Had Catrina pushed the cat-food dish all that way in
search of a private place to enjoy her meal? Pamela hurried across
the lawn toward the white spot, laughing to herself about the
proclivities of this wild little creature that had come into her
life. But as she got closer, she stopped. She wasn’t looking at a
plastic dish, but at a human hand, palm slightly cupped and facing
upward. Too shocked to feel frightened, she bent to look closer. The
hand emerged from a sleeve whose dark fabric blended with the
shadows. She pushed the unruly branches of the hedge aside, and
moonlight illuminated the motionless face of Amy Morgan, still
beautiful even in what was quite obviously death. Amy’s coat had
been unbuttoned and peeled back, revealing a pale sweater whose
distinctive texture showed it to have been knit by hand. But its pale
color had been stained by a large, dark patch centered to the left of
the buttons that marched down its front. Protruding from the center
of the stain was what looked like a knitting needle. Pamela bent
closer. Yes, it was undoubtedly a knitting needle, its metal surface
gleaming in the moonlight. She pushed more branches aside, and Amy’s
legs and feet came into view. She’d have to call the police. But
just then she couldn’t move.
Peggy Ehrhart is a former English professor who lives in Leonia, New Jersey, where she writes mysteries and plays blues guitar. She holds a Ph.D. in medieval literature from the University of Illinois and taught writing and literature at Queens College, CUNY, and Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she was a tenured full professor. Her short stories have appeared in Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Crime and Suspense, Flashing in the Gutters, Spinetingler, Crime Scene: New Jersey 2, and Murder New York Style. A longtime member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, Peggy served on the board of MWA New York as head of the Mentor Committee. She was president of Sisters in Crime NY/TriState from 2013 to 2015. Peggy regularly attends mystery writing conferences and participates in conference panels and also gives talks on mystery fiction at libraries in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
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