A Deadly Yarn is book #3 in the Kitting Mysteries series by Maggie Sefton. It is now October and Kelly must decide if she is going to stay in Fort Connor or move back to her corporate job in Washington DC. Meanwhile, her lawyer has been notified that there are natural gas pockets under her property in Wyoming. She recruits Curt Stackhouse (whom she suspected initially of murder in book 1, but since then has become fast friends) to help decipher the legalese of the natural gas agreement.
Kelly hooks up with knitting friend Megan to help aspiring artist Allison. Allison has just had a big break and is about to head to New York to for a mentoring/apprenticeship program with a well known artist. But on the morning of her departure, Megan finds Allison dead. The cops rule it a suicide, finding huge amounts of sleeping pills in her coffee and system. It’s ruled an overdose - case closed.
But Megan and Kelly suspect otherwise. Some beautiful beads that Megan saw Allison purchase and helped to pack are missing. Megan strongly feels Allison was too excited about her future to kill herself. Megan finds Allisons diary in the boxes in her trunk (she was helping Allison get ready for the move and forgot about them in the advent of her death) and they realize that sweet Allison had some enemies - a druggie ex-boyfriend, a resentful former art teacher, and a jealous rival artist. It’s up to Kelly and Megan to prove to the cops that Allison’s death was something more.
Seftons characters are settling into place now. There are still way to many gals in the knitting shop, but they began to take smaller roles in this book. I still don’t know how in the matter of a couple of months all these people manage to knit complete shawls and sweaters (remember - this series started in April) but each time a new book starts they are on a different project. Except Kelly. She’s still plugging away on her first sweater. And I still have a beef with all these part-time jobs that allow everyone to pop into the knitting store all at the same time each day so they can knit together before dashing off to...whatever it is they do.
But the one thing I like about this series is Kelly is not confronting the suspect on her own in some secluded place. In this one (don’t worry! No spoilers!), her police contact actually brings in back up to support Kelly’s plan which she carries out at an awards ceremony. Highly unlikely in the real world, but it works here. Kelly also did a better job of bringing evidence to the police this time. Again, this was just a fun quick read. I look forward to Number 4 (which the Mother has but hasn’t read yet. Read faster! Read faster!)
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