by Maggie Sefton
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Taking a troop of tourists to Vickie Claymore's alpaca farm doesn't earn knitter Kelly Flynn a warm welcome. Instead she finds Vickie splayed out on her original hand-woven rug, her blood seeping into the design.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Loose Ends Still Untied, 2008-06-02
After reading the first book in this series, I was disappointed that there were burning questions concerning the status of the main character's life that were unanswered. So I ordered the second book, "Needled to Death" to find out what decisions she makes. Now I have finished reading book 2 and I still don't know! How long is the author going to string us along?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Poor writing, thin mystery, boring knitting, 2007-11-19
I love cozy mysteries and I'm an avid reader, so I had high hopes for this book. I knew pretty quickly that it was going to disappoint; the dialog is stiff and heavy-handed, particularly when the characters make what are meant to be humorous remarks. It's a pet peeve of mine, but I don't like when a character 'jokes' rather than 'says' her lines. The mystery itself is secondary to the knit-shop fun and frolic, and it doesn't measure up even to other 'genre' mystery. I was even more disappointed in the knitting content - I know we were all beginners once but I've never met a more obtuse would-be knitter than Kelly Flynn. Of course, when none of her more experienced knitterly friends offers a simple explanation of why we knit every round to achieve stockinette fabric (instead, they urge her to just 'trust the process'), it's hardly surprising that Kelly seems a little dim. Every knitting-related passage in this book seemed to scream "Knitting content here" rather than flowing with the narrative. If you're looking for a decent mystery with a bit of knitting content, try Mary Kruger's "Died in the Wool."
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Needled to Death, 2007-09-18
The series by Maggie Sefton on kniting mystery stories are a fun read, especially for kniters. I have read the first one, Knit One, Kill Two, and just finished this one, Needled to Death. I think they get better as the series continues. I am looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Love this series, 2007-09-09
This is the second of the series featuring cpa Kelly, who continues to feel at home in her aunts cottage in northern CO. I love to knit and spin and really like these books as light reading. "Needled to Death" gave me some tense moments, due to thinking that Kelly really should have been looking over her shoulder more when alone, but the author did not choose to put her in the kind of danger I imagined.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
 Could Have Been Better, 2007-06-07
Kelly Flynn is staying in Fort Connor, Colorado until she settles the estate of her late aunt and cousin. She was left a great deal of property and it may take months to settle the estate, and Kelly is beginning to think she may never leave. She is doing accounting work from her house, making friends, and enjoying learning how to knit. Since she is learning about different types of wools, she volunteers to take a group of tourists to visit Vickie Caymore's alpaca farm. To her shock, she finds Vickie's body. As the police investigate the murder, Kelly helps Vickie's daughter Debbie settle her financial matters. Debbie is convinced that her stepfather killed her mother because she was in the process of divorcing him, but he swears to Kelly he didn't do it and she begins to believe him. When the murderer strikes again, Kelly realizes she has to do what she can to stop the killer before someone else is killed.
While it had some good points, I found "Needled to Death" to be a disappointing mystery. For the most part, Kelly was a good heroine - still dealing with her aunt's death and trying to decide if she should stay in Colorado or go back to Washington, D.C. I loved her golf ball stealing dog, Carl. Her tentative romance with Steve was sweetly done. Some of the secondary characters such as Debbie, Jayleen, and Burt were well written. But much of the book was unbelievable. Kelly constantly worries about money, wondering whether she can afford to quit her D.C. job and work as a consultant in Colorado, yet she never seems to work instead spending her time knitting with her friends, drinking coffee, or playing softball. And considering the size of the estate her aunt left her, including a ranch in Wyoming with plenty of cattle, the constant fretting about money seemed overdone. The writing is sloppy - having characters named Burt and Curt confused me. As for the mystery itself, while the identity of the murderer may come as a surprise to readers, the second murder is so obviously telegraphed that readers will know which character is doomed long before the murder takes place. The book has some major editing issues - early in the book one of the suspects approaches Kelly at her cottage after she came home from Vickie's funeral, but at the end of the book she says he approached her while she was still at the funeral. That's sloppy writing and editing.
With some good editing and tighter writing "Needled to Death" could have been so much better.
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