"Petra Garfield has no real attachments tying her down to one place. She's ready for an adventure, so what could be better than an extended stay at Koi House with new friends and old in enchanting Ormond Beach. Having recently lost her mother, Petra is riddled with questions about the father she never knew. She certainly never thought she'd begin to find the answers in a tiny town in Florida... As much as she wants to search for the truth, Petra knows...

With two yarn retreats in the bag, Casey is looking forward to running her third one at Cadbury by the Sea's Vista Del Mar hotel on the Monterey Peninsula. This time, each knitter will get a Mystery Bag of knitting materials to turn into a personal project. But Casey gets tangled up in another retreat at the same hotel, when the organizer and his wife have a very public spat. As Casey is delivering her baked goods later that night, she finds the woman...

When "controversial fashion editor" Pamela Pisano turns up dead with a pistol in her hand on the snow-covered back porch of the Pisano family estate, Ravenswood-by-the-Sea, it appears a clear case of suicide. Particularly distraught is Mary Pisano, Pamela's cousin, who recently inherited Ravenswood and is in the process of converting the house into a bed-and-breakfast. When a painter Mary hired falls to his death off a ladder onto some granite rocks,...

"Maggie Messina knows that knitting is not only enjoyable, it also calms both the mind and soul. She's happy to visit two sisters, Holly and Rose Piper, and teach them some simple stitches, while the rest of the Black Sheep knitters tag along. Dana Haeger has known the young women since they were children and is the closest thing to family the Pipers now have. Dana is especially concerned about Rose, who has been easily overwhelmed ever since a car...

A collection of essays from more than twenty different authors--including Elizabeth Berg, Ann Patchett, Andre Dubus III, and Sue Grafton--describes their passion for knitting, recalling their triumphs and disasters in their craft projects and lives.

Isabelle Wainwright is no stranger to heartache. She was just fifteen when her mother left her to be raised by her father so she could start a new life across the country. Rather than crumbling in despair, Isabelle eventually stitched together her own path, graduating from college and starting a family in Atlanta. But her hard-won fairytale ending is beginning to unravel. . .The shock of her father's sudden death is compounded when Isabelle's husband...

While promoting her shop at the annual fiber festival, Maggie Mesina, the head of the Black Sheep Knitting group, must unravel a tangled mystery involving llamas and murder when her friend Ellie's husband is accused of killing their crazy neighbor.

Izzy Chambers Perry is expecting a new baby. As she is walking along the beach, she discovers an empty baby car seat and an angora blanket she knitted last summer. she wonders what happened to the occupant of the car seat and why these items were left on the beach. A few days later, a young man is killed in a scuba dive. Lizzy learns that the man was actually killed and is connected to the car seat and blanket.

When an acquaintance turns up murdered outside the intended classroom space for her yarn shop, Kelly Flynn unravels a long list of suspects.

Beautiful out-of-towner Willow Adams enters into the lives of the Seaside Knitters in a most unconventional way, when the police discover the young artist curled up and sound asleep in the display window of Izzy Chambers's Seaside Knitting Studio. She's come to share her creations that are as colorful as the artist herself.