Genre: Mystery
Mass Market Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9781496713292
Kensington Publishing
253 Pages
$7.99; $1.99 Amazon
August 28, 2018
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Pamela is ready to kick back and relax after a busy day selling stuffed aardvarks to benefit Arborville High School's sports program at the annual town festival. But just as she's packing up, she makes a terrible discovery -- someone's stashed a body under the Knit and Nibble's table. the victim is Randall Jefferson, a decidedly unpopular history teacher after his recent op-ed criticizing the school's sports program. But the primary suspect has an alibi, and the only clue is a stuffed aardvark found on the victim's chest...Now the Knit and Nibblers must unravel the case quickly -- before a crafty killer repeats a deadly pattern.
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Pamela Paterson is a widow living in Arborville, and along with her friends, they've created the Knit & Nibble club, a group of knitters who create for both themselves and charity. They've knitted a box of aardvarks, the high school mascot, and are selling them to benefit the school's sports program. But when they're boxing up to leave, Pamela notices that two of the aardvarks are missing, and can't imagine where they've gone.
At least until she discovers a body under the table with an aardvark on his chest. The victim is history teacher Randall Jefferson, an outspoken opponent of sports. The main suspect is the football coach, but when he has an alibi, the knitters get involved because everyone is getting rid of their aardvarks thinking one of them killed the man. So Pamela and her best friend Bettina, who works for a local newspaper, are on the case, trying to figure it all out. But the killer might be closer than even Pamela can discover...
This started off as an interesting book, but then it started to get tedious. Do we really need to know what Pamela eats every day? Especially when it's the same thing? We already know poor Catrina gets fed once or twice a day, which is crazy. (Cats aren't dogs -- they won't eat every piece of food in their bowl until they roll over in pain. When they're done eating, they walk away. You can leave hard food in their bowl, and this is what I do for my fur babies. I give them soft food in the morning for breakfast, and leave the hard food out all day. Not a problem, then you don't have to keep mentioning when you feed your cat).
We also don't need to know Pamela's clothing choices, since she never wears anything but jeans. There are endless descriptions of food, and what they're eating on (do we care it's wedding china?). Do we care that sandwiches were served on "cream-colored oval plates?" No, not really. Who does this? So unfortunately, because of the eternal descriptions of things that didn't matter (including everything that went into every recipe) I didn't enjoy this book as much as I should.
The ending felt rather rushed to me. The killer was obvious from the beginning of the book, but of course it took Pamela longer to discover who it was. When it was revealed, the answer of her figuring it out didn't really make any sense to me, And there were questions left unanswered that I would really have liked to know. I am going to hide them in a spoiler below so as not to ruin the book for those who have not read it:
Other than that, the book was alright and I will read the next to see where the story line goes. Hopefully, Pamela and her friends will concern themselves more with a mystery and less with what they're eating.
More on Peggy Ehrhart's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/e/peggy-ehrhart/
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