Yarn to GO

In Betty Hechtman's Yarn to Go, the first installment in the Yarn Retreat Crafty Cozy Series, this caper is twisted and leave you up in tangled knots in the end. For Casey Feldstein, she's a dessert chef for a local restaurant.  But when she learns about her aunt's hit-and-run, she became puzzled on why it happened. In her late aunt's place, she decided to continue the Yarn to Go Retreat in Cadbury by the Sea, when she met the Master Knitter named Kris Garland and other fellow knitters who came there to relax for the weekend in Vista  Del Mar. But while she wondered about her aunt's accident, she learned that one fellow knitter who couldn't make it, since she had an accident by the sea. While she learns the ins and outs of knitting with the others, she meets her neighbor Dane Mangano and runs into an abrasive man named Kevin St. John, the owner of the hotel, who would do anything to take over the retreat for her. When one of the fellow knitters turn up missing, Casey and her friend Lucinda decided to check on her and discover she had been murdered in her bed. Now it was up to Casey to do a bit sleuthing of her own and learn more about the other knitters in the process. In the end, it was up to her to point the fingers to the main culprit and save her own hind before she would be next.

This was a great cozy series debut that would leave you hooked on every purled stitch for every page. I did care for Casey and how her chocolate muffins became a hit with the locals and how she took charge to solve three murders in the price of one in the end. I did see a potential love triangle between Sammy, her ex, and with Dane. And I loved how she stuck to her guns and didn't leave an unfinished project to find her true calling. I did find the Cadbury by the Sea a terrific location with mesmerizing scenes around Vista Del Mar and near the sea in general. This would make you want to take up knitting and to devour a new cozy mystery at the same time with great drama, suspense, non-stop action and plenty of mystery to keep you guessing whodunit right to the end.

Will you check out Yarn to Go and read it tonight?