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Cast On, Kill Off (A Knitting Mystery #10)
Wedding bells are ringing in Fort Connor, Colorado, and the House of Lambspun knitters are abuzz with excitement. But when a murder interrupts the wedding planning, Kelly Flynn will have to solve this crime fast to ensure the killer doesn’t wind up on the guest list…
Kelly Flynn’s knitting pal, Megan, is about to get hitched, and all the planning is falling into place. Me...more
Kelly Flynn’s knitting pal, Megan, is about to get hitched, and all the planning is falling into place. Me...more
Hardcover, 294 pages
Published
June 5th 2012
by Berkley Hardcover
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I have been to Fort Connor, Colorado again this week. Kelly Flynn and her friends are at it again. I went to go to Megan and Marty's wedding which is the main plot in the book.
Megan has found the perfect seamstress, Zoe Yeager, to create dresses for the bridesmaids, (Kelly, Lisa, her sister,and Jennifer)who are knitting their own matching shawls. But Zoe is harboring a secret -- bruises on her face show a troubling side of her marriage. Just after she finds the courage to leave her husband, Zoe...more
Megan has found the perfect seamstress, Zoe Yeager, to create dresses for the bridesmaids, (Kelly, Lisa, her sister,and Jennifer)who are knitting their own matching shawls. But Zoe is harboring a secret -- bruises on her face show a troubling side of her marriage. Just after she finds the courage to leave her husband, Zoe...more
Thank goodness this is the last of them or I might have ended up torturing myself to get through even more. I simply don't know what to make of this. Domestic abuse, murder, fraud, an entire community's seeming investment in two incredibly boring people starting to have sex again, and a wedding that seems like it's taken forever to arrive and then forever again to be over. I wonder if Sefton's had some feedback that Kelly and Steve seem two-dimensional and there should be more sex, because all o...more
Tenth in the Knitting Mystery series revolving around Kelly Flynn and her knitting friends in Fort Connor (a.k.a., Fort Collins), Colorado.
My Take
It's another sweet and cozy mystery that Kelly tackles. This one at Mimi's behest. A good read that fulfills my need for a homey setting with loving and supportive friends in the mythical small-town environment of Fort Connor. Friends who know your quirks and still love you. Will always be there for you.
Even Detective Dan has come to respect Kelly's di...more
My Take
It's another sweet and cozy mystery that Kelly tackles. This one at Mimi's behest. A good read that fulfills my need for a homey setting with loving and supportive friends in the mythical small-town environment of Fort Connor. Friends who know your quirks and still love you. Will always be there for you.
Even Detective Dan has come to respect Kelly's di...more
Jun 18, 2012
Betty
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4 of 5 stars
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Review based on Advance Reading Copy
Excitement and chaos reigns among Kelly Flynn's familiar and friendly group in Fort Connor, Colorado. Their good friends Megan and Marty are getting married and Kelly is in the wedding party. Megan has everything under control down to the minute. The dresses are gorgeous and ready, designed and made by Zoe Yeager, a local seamstress, assisted by her sister Vera.
Zoe is friendly and creative, but she has a secret. Zoe suffers from spousal abuse, hiding her bruis...more
Excitement and chaos reigns among Kelly Flynn's familiar and friendly group in Fort Connor, Colorado. Their good friends Megan and Marty are getting married and Kelly is in the wedding party. Megan has everything under control down to the minute. The dresses are gorgeous and ready, designed and made by Zoe Yeager, a local seamstress, assisted by her sister Vera.
Zoe is friendly and creative, but she has a secret. Zoe suffers from spousal abuse, hiding her bruis...more
Jan 24, 2013
Sabrina
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I love knitting and books so I assumed I'd enjoy this. I did not. The characters are all so annoying, I figured out who it was as soon as she showed up, and if read the word 'sleuthing' one more time, I was gonna stomp on this book. Maggie Sefton clearly has favorite words, which she throws around like confetti (sometimes in just a few pages you'll read the same damn word so often, it starts to sound foreign). So to sum it up, boring, predictable and annoying. Thumbs down.
A faithful readers of 'Knitting Mystery Series' know, the mysteries are always sound and credible. The backdrop for the mysteries, is in my opinion, why I continue with countless others to seek the latest novel out.
Mimi owns a delightfully welcoming knitting, and other crafting store across the street from Kelly Flynn, in the scenic town of Fort Connor, Co. Kelly has been living there over four years now and she has developed a strong friends/family group about her. They seem to attract crimes a...more
Mimi owns a delightfully welcoming knitting, and other crafting store across the street from Kelly Flynn, in the scenic town of Fort Connor, Co. Kelly has been living there over four years now and she has developed a strong friends/family group about her. They seem to attract crimes a...more
I have to say I keep reading these because I love knitting, and I love mysteries, and I keep hoping for better stories combining the two. This one had a bit more of a "story" to grab onto which was surprising after the last few, but the "who-done-it" part is still very predictable before being half-way through the book. There didn't seem to be the words "coffee", "caffeine", or "mug" on every page but the offset was more strangeness. I really have to wonder if anyone does any type of proofing of...more
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Wow.
What an enormous pile of shit.
I can only assume these books are successful because we knitters are rather desperate not to be portrayed as little old biddies or lonely cat ladies with no life. So we're willing to overlook obscene redundancy, head jarringly obvious "plot" points, and idiotic dialogue.
I mean, for crying out loud. If you have to have a character say, "Oh, my god, you're so funny!" three times in one scene to convince the reader your characters are funny? They're not funny.
And...more
What an enormous pile of shit.
I can only assume these books are successful because we knitters are rather desperate not to be portrayed as little old biddies or lonely cat ladies with no life. So we're willing to overlook obscene redundancy, head jarringly obvious "plot" points, and idiotic dialogue.
I mean, for crying out loud. If you have to have a character say, "Oh, my god, you're so funny!" three times in one scene to convince the reader your characters are funny? They're not funny.
And...more
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Another of my fluff reads...good when work gets so overwhelming that though I need/want to read at the end of the day, I can't concentrate on something requiring even a little bit of attention.
Like Janet Evanovich, I think the author needs to finish up this series (although one of the reviewers said this one is perhaps the last!?!?). The characters and their quirks are getting repetitive and even more silly as the series progresses. And I think it is becoming even more obvious 'who done it'. I...more
Like Janet Evanovich, I think the author needs to finish up this series (although one of the reviewers said this one is perhaps the last!?!?). The characters and their quirks are getting repetitive and even more silly as the series progresses. And I think it is becoming even more obvious 'who done it'. I...more
I don't know. I've read all the books in Sefton's series. I must be getting a bit tired of them. This episode is fine. Not great. Not "Wow! I didn't see that one coming." But fine.
Spoilers ahead: but you will have seen these coming too. I don't make in a huge practice to guess "who done it." I mean, I do; but it's not my moment to live for. But I knew the perpetrator well before the halfway mark. Which is annoying. If I figure it out without really trying, what's the point?
Kelly and Steve get ba...more
Spoilers ahead: but you will have seen these coming too. I don't make in a huge practice to guess "who done it." I mean, I do; but it's not my moment to live for. But I knew the perpetrator well before the halfway mark. Which is annoying. If I figure it out without really trying, what's the point?
Kelly and Steve get ba...more
Kelly finally found her identity. She's Nancy Drew. I don't mean that in a good way.
The story held my interest, but only barely. The writing is stiff and juvenile. Someone in a previous review mentioned the copious use of adjectives. It's not just the adjectives, it's also that some of them are dated and occasionally inappropriate. The characters are becoming less and less believable from one novel to the next. Jennifer used to be a "party girl." How many times do we need to be reminded of this...more
The story held my interest, but only barely. The writing is stiff and juvenile. Someone in a previous review mentioned the copious use of adjectives. It's not just the adjectives, it's also that some of them are dated and occasionally inappropriate. The characters are becoming less and less believable from one novel to the next. Jennifer used to be a "party girl." How many times do we need to be reminded of this...more
Kelly Flynn's friend Megan is getting married. They have found the perfect seamstress in Zoe Yeager to create the wedding and bridesmaids dresses. Each bridesmaid is knitting their own shawl to drape over the top of their beautiful dresses.
Megan has planned her wedding with the precision of a surgeon or a drill sergeant depending on which day you catch her. Nothing is going to ruin her wedding day. Not even when their seamstress gets enough courage to leave her abusive husband. The ladies all ra...more
Megan has planned her wedding with the precision of a surgeon or a drill sergeant depending on which day you catch her. Nothing is going to ruin her wedding day. Not even when their seamstress gets enough courage to leave her abusive husband. The ladies all ra...more
Kelly and the Lambspun group have another murder on their hands. (They get a lot for a small Colorado town...) This time it's seamstress Zoe, who is making Megan's wedding dress and the groups' bridesmaid dresses as well. No one can figure out who would want to hurt the creative dressmaker, until Kelly starts looking into it and finds a rival designer, an abusive husband, and a mis-treated sister. Can Kelly solve the murder without interrupting her friend's big day?
Spoiler alert, of course she c...more
Spoiler alert, of course she c...more
This book is the most recent Lambspun knitting mystery. There has been yet another murder tangentially related to the Lambspun yarn store that is being investigated by the ridiculously incompetent Fort Conner police department that the ever-irritating Kelly Flynn.
I have read all of the Lambspun knitting mysteries and this is by far the worse. It is an excruciating read. It deals with domestic abuse with the same tact and sensitivity that Sefton dealt with rape, i.e. absolutely none at all. Again...more
I have read all of the Lambspun knitting mysteries and this is by far the worse. It is an excruciating read. It deals with domestic abuse with the same tact and sensitivity that Sefton dealt with rape, i.e. absolutely none at all. Again...more
Cast On, Kill Off is the tenth book in the A Knitting Mystery series.
Time is growing near for Meagan and Marty's wedding and Kelly and Meagan have stopped by their seamstress Zoe to get final alterations made on Kelly bridesmaid dress. Kelly notices a bruise on Zoe's face and learns that Zoe's husband has once again abused her. Zoe's is convinced to stop by House of Lambspun and talk with Mime about getting in a safe house. Soon Kelly and Lisa are helping Zoe move and have a potentially violent...more
Time is growing near for Meagan and Marty's wedding and Kelly and Meagan have stopped by their seamstress Zoe to get final alterations made on Kelly bridesmaid dress. Kelly notices a bruise on Zoe's face and learns that Zoe's husband has once again abused her. Zoe's is convinced to stop by House of Lambspun and talk with Mime about getting in a safe house. Soon Kelly and Lisa are helping Zoe move and have a potentially violent...more
Kelly Flynn, accountant and apprentice knitter, and her ex-boyfriend, architect Steve Townsend, get together amid the wedding preparations of their friends Megan the IT consultant and Marty the lawyer. There's a lot of beautiful Colorado weather and scenery, and Kelly solves a murder the police have fumbled. Judging by the word-count, that's the general emphasis on this Knitting Mystery, a series I keep swearing off and picking up again. Abused wife and seamstress Zoe is found dead, and while th...more
I love to knit and I love a good mystery. This series is set in a place named Fort Connor, Colorado, which must be close to Denver. The town gathers around a cafe and yarn shop. The series is simplistic with too much dialogue and very little description. The author does spend a lot of time in describing the local flowers. The age range of the central characters goes from 20's to 70's, with love blossoming at each age level. The town is too nice, and tempers very seldom flare. I enjoyed the knitt...more
Review originally published at The Bookwyrm's Hoard.
Cast On, Kill Off, the tenth in the Kelly Flynn series, is typical Maggie Sefton knitting mystery fare: a quick, light read, suited for summer reading and written for cozy mystery lovers.
CPA and hobby knitter Kelly Flynn and her friends are in the the midst of preparations for Megan's wedding. When the designer and seamstress of the bridal party's gowns is shot, Kelly is drawn into the investigation.
Fans of the series will be pleased to encoun...more
Cast On, Kill Off, the tenth in the Kelly Flynn series, is typical Maggie Sefton knitting mystery fare: a quick, light read, suited for summer reading and written for cozy mystery lovers.
CPA and hobby knitter Kelly Flynn and her friends are in the the midst of preparations for Megan's wedding. When the designer and seamstress of the bridal party's gowns is shot, Kelly is drawn into the investigation.
Fans of the series will be pleased to encoun...more
This was a cute read that continues the knitting mystery series. We are reunited with all our old favorite characters and of course there's a murder that Kelly helps solve. There were several happily ever afters, a who dunnit that unfortunately was more predictable in who the murderer was than some of Sefton's other books. An enjoyable read that includes you in the fun and camaraderie throughout. Can't wait for the next book in the series!
I've enjoyed the previous books in this series. But, with the last book and now this one-I really feel as though I'm done with it. I find it unrealistic that a former police officer 'checks in' with Kelley on crimes and even encourages her. I find her to be more and more irritating as the series progresses. On the rare occasions that something doesn't go right for her she seems shocked and a little bit whiney.
Maggie Sefton's books are always to be enjoyed. It is like getting together with old friends and catching up with what's happening in their lives. CAST ON, KILL OFF is no different. The tenth installment of the delightful Kelly Flynn knitting mystery series shows lots of growth and good times between good friends. The mystery was satisfying, as always, with enough twists, turns and red herrings to keep you guessing.
I've read others in this series and have slowly come to the conclusion that all the characters are just too damn nice. They're all laughing, chuckling, humming, teasing, twinkling, and sparkling at one another. The mystery, such as it was, was easily solved and only served as a distraction to the romancing going on, what with weddings and dating and friendly "teasing" about "getting it on." Enough.
I have no idea why I continue to read this series. Apparently, it is like pulling of those clingy hangnails, you know that you should cut them off, but maybe, this one time if you do it quick it won't hurt. Then you have a bleeding, cut down your finger which hurts like the dickens-yeah this is how this series has become to me. Maybe, I will learn my lesson, but probably not.
I love the entire House of Lambspun series. The characters are incredibly vibrant, and its rare for a book to end the way I think it will. These books are a bit short for my tastes, but then again I do read incredibly fast, so for most it's probably a perfect mix. Be warned, these books are addicting, even for those of us who have no clue how to knit!
Even I, who race through mysteries without trying to work out who did it, had guessed this murderer a third of the way through the book. I still like the cosiness of the community, but found myself wanting to take a red pencil to the adjectives - especially, but not only, relating to food. This one moved too close to romance for my liking.
Always enjoyable, perhaps preductable, but the cat and mouse dataing game between kelly and Steve was what kept me going. Whoever proofread the gally needs to focus more. I found several wrong words, a period out of place, and some mising words in the text as well. I'd love to proof read the next one. This published book read like a galley.
While I think there is great potential in writing about the sub-culture of fiber artists, I could not get past the juvenile dialogue in this book. I returned it to the library after reading only 4 pages, as I found myself *mentally re-writing* every scrap of dialogue I came across. Not an enjoyable way to spend my reading time!
I've read all of these books but they're getting a bit predictable. Didn't care for the idea that Kelly and Steve weren't committed until after they slept together. Allowing a friend to drink to excess just because "have you ever tried to stop [her] from doing anything?" is not funny -it's irresponsible Also the bar fight at the end just felt unnecessary.
While this book follows similar plot lines as the previous in the series, I still loved it. I read the book start to finish in 24 hours. I think I am invested enough in the characters that I find the series delightful. I might also add that I am an accountant who loves to knit.....
I love this series and I love this book. We keep getting to know the characters and there is just enough (can never really be enough) yarn-related goodness to keep a fiber lover happy. This mystery was a little easier for me to figure out than some previous ones, but was still so enjoyable.
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"First, a little biographical information as introduction: Born in Richmond, VA, I grew up in Northern Virginia in Arlington, close to Washington, D.C. I attended university and received a Bachelor's degree in English Literature & Journalism, married, and started my family there. All four of my daughters are grown and established in careers of their own...more
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From author website:
"First, a little biographical information as introduction: Born in Richmond, VA, I grew up in Northern Virginia in Arlington, close to Washington, D.C. I attended university and received a Bachelor's degree in English Literature & Journalism, married, and started my family there. All four of my daughters are grown and established in careers of their own...more
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