Thanks to Diversions Needlepoint's June e-newsletter, I've learned about a new mystery set in a needlepoint store near Asheville, NC. It's called One Sharp Stitch, by Allie Pleiter. Ms. Pleiter has written mysteries centered on knitters and it looks like this is planned as a series as well.
I read One Sharp Stitch last June and enjoyed it. It's a great beach read, with a good cozy mystery obscuring who the killer is plus some interesting people, both important to the plot and peripheral to it. The family relationships among the various characters are handled realistically and the author knows quite a bit about the social life of a needlepoint shop since she picked up needlepoint with the help of Stitchers Garden in Illinois, Two's Company in South Carolina and Po's Point in North Carolina (plus help from ANG's Queen Charlotte chapter. If you can get this through your local library, it's worth checking out. I imagine more in the series is planned, and I'll be reading the second book when/if it comes out.
If you are intrigued, Lisa of BeStitched did an interview with Allie Pleiter on Facebook.
By the way, the fictional shop is called Nina's Nimble Needle, but it has no relationship to either Nimble Needle in New Jersey or Nimble Needle in Atlanta!
UPDATE: Melita says there is a second book in the series. It's called Two Purloined Pillows.
The third, which will be called Three Tangled Threads, is due to publish sometime in 2027.
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