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Book 56, 2017
May. 14th, 2017 01:55 pmTook me a week, but I finally finished reading Dyeing Wishes by Molly MacRae. It's the second book in her "Haunted Yarn Shop" mystery series. The book was interesting, but playoff hockey has taken a bite out of my time. Hee!
Kath and her new friends from the TGIF knitting group are visiting the farm of one of their members, for a workshop on dyeing fiber. While there, Debbie's sheep are acting strangely, and she and Kath go into the pasture to see what has the livestock all a'twitter. They come across the bodies of a young couple. At first, it appears to be a murder/suicide, but the young woman's mother, also a member of TGIF, wants Kath to look into it.
Kath is reluctant to get involved, but her fellow TGIF pals, along with her ghost, Geneva, all encourage her. In the course of investigating, Kath runs afoul of local deputy, Cole "Clod" Dunbar, as well as her interfering aunts, the infamous Spivey twins. Geneva is having difficulty separating the current crime from one she claims happened long ago, which leaves her in a ghostly funk. In the meantime, Kath has to name the cat who adopted her, try to find her grandmother's secret dye journals, and, oh yes, run the business she inherited from her grandmother.
The story was fun, and the pace was good. I found the ending to be somewhat confusing, but I did get to meet new characters and reconnect with familiar ones.
Favorite lines:
♦ "Mud, maybe, but these shoes don't do ewe poo."
♦ I was definitely still in the early, perplexed, "why me?" stage of being haunted.
♦ They were about as easy to catch as an explosion of grasshoppers.
♦ "Where cake trumps, hope lives."
Good, but not great--four stars:
****
Kath and her new friends from the TGIF knitting group are visiting the farm of one of their members, for a workshop on dyeing fiber. While there, Debbie's sheep are acting strangely, and she and Kath go into the pasture to see what has the livestock all a'twitter. They come across the bodies of a young couple. At first, it appears to be a murder/suicide, but the young woman's mother, also a member of TGIF, wants Kath to look into it.
Kath is reluctant to get involved, but her fellow TGIF pals, along with her ghost, Geneva, all encourage her. In the course of investigating, Kath runs afoul of local deputy, Cole "Clod" Dunbar, as well as her interfering aunts, the infamous Spivey twins. Geneva is having difficulty separating the current crime from one she claims happened long ago, which leaves her in a ghostly funk. In the meantime, Kath has to name the cat who adopted her, try to find her grandmother's secret dye journals, and, oh yes, run the business she inherited from her grandmother.
The story was fun, and the pace was good. I found the ending to be somewhat confusing, but I did get to meet new characters and reconnect with familiar ones.
Favorite lines:
♦ "Mud, maybe, but these shoes don't do ewe poo."
♦ I was definitely still in the early, perplexed, "why me?" stage of being haunted.
♦ They were about as easy to catch as an explosion of grasshoppers.
♦ "Where cake trumps, hope lives."
Good, but not great--four stars:
****
