Nell Endicott and the other Seaside Knitters are helping their friend Gracie Santos open the Lazy Lobster and Soup CafΓ© on Pelican Pier. They do however take a break to attend a special yacht club dinner held to honor Gracie's aunt-wearing their finest knitting creations.
Under the full moon, a local scuba dive club witnesses a blood-red Ferrari flying off a cliff and onto the granite rocks below. Gracie's aunt was behind the wheel, and it was murder. Gossip builds, rumors circulate, and the Seaside Knitters try to figure out a killer's strange pattern...
From Publishers Weekly
In Goldenbaum's delightful third knitting mystery (after 2009's Patterns in the Sand), Izzy Chambers, proprietor of the Seaside Knitting Studio, and assorted knitting group friends gather for dinner at the Sea Harbor Yacht Club in Sea Harbor, Mass., to celebrate fund-raising efforts for the new community center and park. Special thanks are due two local construction companies, Santos and Delaney, which have been working together despite the uneasy relationship between the two families. The sudden appearance of drunken Julianne Santos, who threatens her brother, Alphonso, with a beer bottle, interrupts the dinner. Gracie, Julianne's daughter and the estranged wife of Joey Delaney, wishes she, Gracie, could disappear like Alice down the rabbit hole. Later that night, Alphonso's aloof, beautiful Argentinean wife drives her Ferrari off a cliff. Tampered brakes signal murder. Well-drawn characters and an intriguing plot lift this well above the average cozy. (May)
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From Booklist
The third installment in the Seaside Knitters series may have readers wondering why dead bodies keep turning up in the idyllic Massachusetts fishing village and art colony where the action takes place. This time the corpse belongs to patrician Sophia Santos, whose Ferrari has gone off a cliff. Although billed as a knitting mystery, thereβs more detecting than purling going on here (though a hat pattern is included). The cast is overly large (and names confusingly close, e.g., Ella and Stella), but the knittersβincluding wise Nell, her niece and knit-shop owner Izzy, and octogenerian Birdieβmake for an appealing and comfortably cozy coterie of sleuths. --Ilene Cooper