The Wedding Shawl (Seaside Knitters Mystery Series #5)

by Sally Goldenbaum

Overview

Readers can't help but get entangled in this USA Today bestselling series.

Summertime’s salty breezes and the sun’s golden threads bring inspiration to the Seaside Knitters of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts. But when an old mystery washes ashore, they must cast their needles aside and bring some heat back into a cold case…

Izzy Chambers is head over heels. She’s about to marry the love of her life, but much remains to be done before their big day. So the Seaside Knitters have pitched in to help and are even knitting Izzy a beautiful lace wedding shawl.

Meanwhile, Izzy’s aunt, Nell, has hired a gardener to spruce up the backyard where the wedding will be held. The gardener, Claire, is just returning to Cape Anne after a long absence, hoping to put a dark secret to rest and find peace for herself.

But the wedding plans get complicated when the wedding party’s hair stylist, Tiffany, is found dead. Rumors start to circulate about Tiffany’s past and her connection to an unsolved murder years ago. Is Claire’s return part of this pattern? Or are there more secrets simmering in the summer heat?

All the Seaside Knitters know is they must rally to find some answers, so the whispers about town can be replaced by wedding bells.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451236708
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/01/2012
Series:	Seaside Knitters Mystery Series , #5
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	628,406
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sally Goldenbaum is a sometimes philosophy teacher, knitter, and editor, and the USA Today bestselling author of more than two dozen novels. Sally became more serious about knitting with the birth of her first grandchild and the creation of the Seaside Knitters mystery series. Her fictional knitting friends are teaching her the intricacies of women’s friendship, the mysteries of small-town living, and the very best way to pick up dropped stitches on a lacy knit shawl.

Editorial Reviews

Like the best marriages—mystery, romance, and lots of charm.” — New York Times bestselling author Nancy Pickard

“This might be Goldenbaum’s best so far.” — Booklist

“A very pleasant read that evokes summers by the sea.” — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

This might be Goldenbaum’s best so far.

Booklist

Like the best marriages—mystery, romance, and lots of charm.

New York Times bestselling author Nancy Pickard

The convincing interplay among the members of the Sea Harbor, Mass., knitting group offsets the run-of-the-mill detecting in Goldenbaum's fifth Seaside Knitters mystery (after 2010's A Holiday Yarn). One night at the local bookstore, mystery author Danny Brandley joins Izzy Chambers and friends, who convene every third Tuesday to knit and discuss mystery novels, to talk about writing. Brandley, after revealing that he draws his plots from real life, provides an example that hits close to home. Fifteen years earlier, the community was rattled by the death of high school graduate Harmony Farrow, who drowned in a quarry under circumstances that suggested foul play. An accidental eavesdropper directly connected to the Farrow case overhears the conversation. After another murder—that of hair stylist Tiffany Ciccolo—the cold case heats up. Once the culprit is identified, the characters rebound from the shock improbably quickly, even for a cozy. (May)

Publishers Weekly

The Seaside Knitters are joyously preparing for the wedding of one of their own, but first they have to solve a murder.

The family and friends of knitting shop owner Izzy Chambers are busy making ready for her marriage to Sam Perry. Izzy's beloved aunt Nell has even hired gardener Claire Russell to make her backyard perfect for the ceremony. Long divorced from her ultra-strict husband, Claire has returned to Sea Harbor, Mass., to face the past. Soon after a book-shop discussion of cold cases focusing on the death of Claire's daughter, beautiful local teen Harmony Farrow, Harmony's BFF Tiffany Ciccolo is found dead in the basement of the beauty salon where she worked. Tiffany had a crush on Andy Risso, member of a popular local band. Since Andy was formerly Harmony's high-school flame, the police have him high on the suspect list. Nell and her friends realize they have to solve both murders before they can present Izzy with her beautiful wedding shawl and provide a perfect wedding day.

The latest outing for these dexterous amateur sleuths (A Holiday Yarn, 2010, etc.) is a very pleasant read that evokes summers by the sea and features a mystery that will keep you guessing and instructions for making a wedding shawl and a lobster dinner.

Kirkus Reviews