Death of a Knit Wit
Pamela has organized a weekend-long knitting bee as part of a fiber arts and crafts conference at Wendelstaff College. But when pompous Professor Robert Greer-Gordon Critter, the keynote speaker at the conference, crashes the bee, he seems more interested in flirting than knitting. The man’s reputation as a philanderer supersedes his academic reputation. After coffee and cookies are served, the professor suddenly collapses, seemingly poisoned, but how? Everyone had the same coffee and cookies. Joined by her bestie Bettina and the Knit and Nibble ladies, Pamela sorts through everything from red socks to red herrings to unravel the means and motives of a killer dead set on teaching the professor a lesson
The Details
Series: A Knit & Nibble Mystery – Book #8
Author: Peggy Ehrhart
Genre/Category: Cozy – Business/Hobby
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 1496733908
Page Count: 320
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The Review
I have been reading this series from the beginning. Overall, the series has some good additions and some not so good. Death of a Knit Wit is both good and bad. Pamala is a delightful character, but the constant descriptions of her everyday routines, her eating, and the nibble in the series can be overwhelming at times, and her shopping habits destroy the story almost every time. I lose the plot and the suspects easily in between discussions of what plate is being used to serve lunch. That aside, I can live with but not happily.
The returning characters are always fun to read about. I enjoy Bettina even though she can be a bit much, and if she were my neighbor and friend, I would find myself locking my doors, closing my shutters, and hiding in my house most of the time just to keep her out of my business. I adore the Knit and Nibble group. These characters are so varied in type that they make perfect sense and are relatable. I do not however like Pamala’s daughter, who I feel treats her mother as a child. I also do not like that Pamala acts as if she is in her 70s or 80s; she isn’t so old that she can’t have a life and an interest in men.
This time the murder does not center around Pamala or the knit and knibble group. A professor doing a speaking engagement turns out to be a first-class heal, and there is a room full of suspects to choose from when he is murdered. The man is a womanizer, or so it seems, not overly honest and has left a trail of heartbreak in his wake. There are plenty of red herrings to allow readers to unravel the mystery, and a few surprises are thrown in to make things more exciting and keep you turning the page. In the end, the killer is revealed with a slight twist. Generally speaking, readers who enjoy this series will continue to enjoy it, and Death of a Knit Wit won’t win over those who don’t. No matter how much we appreciate the knit and nibble club, they will never play a significant enough role in these stories to make everyone happy. Unfortunately, Pamala will remain the boring, set-in-her-ways character who can sometimes put a reader to sleep on the first page.
The Author
When Peggy Ehrhart was in the third grade at Our Lady of Peace School in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, she won a Knights of Columbus essay contest and her fate was sealed. It just took her a while to realize that what she really wanted to write was fiction.
Peggy is a former English professor with a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature. She taught writing and literature at Queens College, CUNY, and then at Fairleigh Dickinson University, taking early retirement in 2002 to focus on writing fiction and playing guitar. Peggy herself is an avid crafter, dating from her childhood as a member of the 4-H Club in rural Southern California.
Peggy regularly attends mystery writing conferences and participates in conference panels. She also gives talks on mystery fiction at libraries and other venues in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
Other books from the Knit and Nibble series readers may enjoy include Silent Knit, Deadly Knit or Knitty Gritty Murder.
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