Fleece Navidad (Knitting Mystery Series #6)

Love this series!

I really enjoy this series. I'm not a mystery reader normally, but these offer my hobby (knitting) with some nice characters and makes for an easy read. I can get away from my life and join Kelly and her friends knit, live their lives (softball, jazz club, knitting, working) and have some fun and a mystery. I always look forward to Maggie Sefton's next book! And so do a lot of others! Getting a free knit pattern and a recipe is a great perk, too. I want to make the mint chocolate fudge and one of the sleeveless shell sweaters from her last couple of books. It's not a book to task your mind! It's a book to enjoy! Get away from it all! Just plain fun!

If you like offbeat mysteries and knitting these books are for you.

I am so glad I found this series of books and look forward to more from the same author and to learn more about the people who live in this town and are into knitting. Now I want to learn how to knit.

Knitters Enjoy

The group gossip was the most believable part of this novel. There was more coffee consumed than I thought anyone could. However, the plot was pretty good and kept you wondering. It was a good read for a rainy day.

Maggie Sefton is a great writer

I enjoyed Fleece Navidad as I have all of Sefton's other books. Just the warm and fuzzy one would expect at Christmas time. It helps to read her books in sequence, but that helps with most authors. I am anxiously awaiting book #8

Not one of my favorite yarns - too predictable

Unless you're already a Maggie Sefton fan, I'd skip this one. This is my first (and last) of her mysteries.
First, the story is predictable from the first page to the last. The characters are self-righteous and arrogant and these are the ones you're supposed to like! At one point in the novel, all of the "regulars" are on one side of an issue and the "newcomers" are on the opposite (read wrong) side of the same issue. Also, if I had read the word "Whoa" one more time I was going to scream. I guess I expected more when I read the praise from one of my favorite authors. This book is not worth the money or the time spent reading it. I did finish it because that's what I always do, but if I ever was to put a book down without finishing it, this would be the one.
I've read other novels with somewhat weak and predictable plots but the quality of the writing and the lovable characters has saved them. That's not the case with this book. Throughout the book, the characters over use the same phrases and words, like Whoa and Colorado Cowgirl. I found the writing just too weak to save this novel.
There is very little that I liked about this book. The knitting patterns are a nice touch but even they tend toward elitism. One of them uses chinchilla chenille! Try finding that where I live. I did, however, like the recipes. Gingersnaps are one of my favorites and this recipe is a winner, but it's not worth buying this book for one recipe.

A charming Colorado cozy

The holiday season has come to Fort Connor, Colorado. Kelly Flynn and her friends befriend the newcomer who has come to the House of Lamb craft shop to socialize. Claudia Miller has moved from Florida to look for husband number four and she thinks she has found her man in Jeremy. Claudia is unaware that he was seeing librarian Juliet Renfrow before she arrived in town Juliet remains heartbroken.------------------- Another stranger arrives in town, the daughter of Claudia¿s third husband she starts spreading rumors that her ¿stepmother¿ killed her three husbands. She did her own investigation and found that Claudia took the car and the credit card of the woman living in the same retirement home complex with her. Claudia insists the woman gave them to her Sheila claims she stole them and the family is considering pressing charges. They cannot ask the woman as she died of natural causes. Jeremy proposes to Juliet who says yes. However, Claudia is in deeper criminal trouble when someone deliberately kills Juliet in a hit and run and the polic think she did it.. Everyone condemns her except Kelly who believes someone has woven quite a yarn that she plans to unravel one thread at a time.------- Maggie Sefton has written a charming Colorado cozy with an eccentric cast who¿s off beat humor has the audience chuckling for the most part. Readers are unsure if Claudia is black widow killing a rival or the victim of a clever person the evidence mounts increasingly towards the former. In fact most fans and the House of Lamb group will believe Claudia is a killer her only doubter Kelly begins to agree as everything she finds affirms that theory. Fall in the Rockies sounds like fun when Ms. Sefton is the hostess as her latest amateur sleuth FLEECE NAVIDAD is an engaging Rocky Mountain High.------ Harriet Klausner

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