Knit One, Kill Two

Kelly Flynn is an accountant in Washington, D.C., and she admits her life there is on the dull side. Then her Aunt Helen dies, and Kelly returns to Colorado for the funeral. The police put the death down to a burglary that went wrong.

Kelly does not accept that. Her aunt was sixty-eight and sensible, yet she borrowed $20,000 only days before she died. To an accountant, the numbers do not add up, and Kelly starts asking questions the police have stopped asking.

Her aunt was an expert knitter, but Kelly never found needles she liked. That changes when she walks into the yarn shop House of Lambspun. The knitters who gather there take her in, teach her the basics, and help her look into the death.

This is the first book in a knitting mystery series, a cozy-style amateur sleuth story set between a yarn shop and a family loss. The question driving it is where the borrowed money went, and who Kelly can draw out of hiding by pulling at that thread.