Synopses & Reviews
The sun is shining in Sea Harbor and a group of friends, the Seaside Knitters, are spending Thursday evenings knitting the sweetest of gifts—a baby blanket. But as the due date draws near, they find they must take time away from their needles and yarn to confront a murder and untangle a mystery before a certain baby is brought into the world.... It’s an exciting time for yarn shop owner Izzy Chambers Perry. She and her new husband are expecting a baby, and all of Sea Harbor seems to be rejoicing with them. As a mother-to-be, Izzy is having a heady summer—full of bike rides, runs along the shore, and time spent with her aunt Nell and the other Seaside Knitters—until the day she spots an abandoned baby car seat and hand-knit blanket on the beach. Izzy immediately recognizes the blanket’s material—a soft yellow angora yarn she displayed in her shop window last fall. Maybe it’s the hormones, but Izzy has a terrible premonition, and when she realizes no one is claiming the car seat, she shoves it in her trunk. Soon it starts taking over her thoughts and her dreams. What happened to the baby who once sat inside it?
Unfortunately, Izzy’s fear of something bad happening comes true when a young man who did odd jobs at her doctor’s clinic is killed during a scuba dive. When Izzy discovers the man was actually murdered and is connected to the abandoned car seat, the crime becomes too close for comfort and Izzy asks her aunt Nell and knitting pals to investigate. It’ll take the Seaside Knitters’ careful attention to patterns—and their fierce commitment to bringing Izzy and Sam’s baby into a peaceful town—to knit this mystery together....
Review
"A charming and delightful read. This book has a strong sense of place - so strong one can smell the seaweed. Delicious."
Alexander McCall Smith
Murder in a truly close-knit community--a knitting circle in a New England seaside town. Peopled with characters we come to care about. Add a cup of tea, a roaring fire and you've got the perfect cozy evening. Rhys Bowen, author of Her Royal Spyness and the Agatha and Anthony-award winning Molly Murphy mysteries
"The Seaside Knitters are a wonderful group of friends who care about each other, and readers will care about them, too. I can't wait for their next meeting!"
-Nancy Pickard, author of The Virgin of Small Plains
With all the dexterity and warmth the women of Sea Harbor knit into their sweaters and shawls, Sally Goldenbaum weaves us a tale that combines friendship, communityand crime without dropping a stitch. -Gillian Roberts, author of the Amanda Pepper series
"In DEATH BY CASHMERE, Sally Goldenbaum's appealing world will draw readers to return time and again to Sea Harbor. In this wonderful launch of a vibrant new mystery series, the characters ring true and clear."
-Carolyn Hart, author of Set Sail for Murder
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Praise for the Seaside Knitters Mysteries “A charming and delightful read. This book has a strong sense of place—so strong one can smell the seaweed. Delicious.”—New York Times bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith on Death by Cashmere
“Mystery, romance, and lots of charm.”—New York Times bestselling author Nancy Pickard on The Wedding Shawl
Praise for A Fatal Fleece
“Goldenbaum’s plotting is superb, her characters are richly drawn…and her prose is seamless.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Goldenbaum offers credible characters...in a very readable package.”—Publishers Weekly
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Praise for the Seaside Knitters Mysteries:
“Like the best marriages—mystery, romance, and lots of charm.” —New York Times Bestselling Author Nancy Pickard
“The characters ring true and clear.”—Carolyn Hart, Author of Death Comes Silently
“Charming and delightful...[with] a strong sense of place—so strong one can smell the seaweed. Delicious.”—New York Times Bestselling Author Alexander McCall Smith
“Goldenbaum’s plotting is superb, her characters are richly drawn...and her prose is seamless.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Delightful...well-drawn characters and an intriguing plot.”—Publishers Weekly
“Enjoyable...lazy seaside charm.”—Kirkus Reviews
Review
“Sally Goldenbaum describes the town so vividly, you can feel the hot sand between your toes and smell the buttery lobster rolls for lunch.”—The Mystery Reader
Praise for the Seaside Knitters Mysteries
“Charming and delightful.”—Alexander McCall Smith
“Like the best marriages—mystery, romance, and lots of charm.”—New York Times bestselling author Nancy Pickard
Review
Praise for the Seaside Knitters Mysteries “A charming and delightful read. The book has a strong sense of place—so strong one can smell the seaweed. Delicious.”—Alexander McCall Smith
“Goldenbaums plotting is superb...and her prose is seamless.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Like the best marriages—mystery, romance, and lots of charm.”—New York Times Bestselling Author Nancy Pickard
“Sally Goldenbaum describes the town so vividly, you can feel the hot sand between your toes and smell the buttery lobster rolls for lunch.”—The Mystery Reader
“The characters ring true and clear.”—Carolyn Hart, Author of Death at the Door
“Peopled with characters we come to care about. Add a cup of tea, a roaring fire, and youve got the perfect cozy evening.”—Rhys Bowen, National Bestselling Author of Heirs and Graces and the Agatha and Anthony Award-Winning Molly Murphy Mysteries
“Delightful...well-drawn characters and an intriguing plot.”—Publishers Weekly
“Enjoyable...lazy seaside charm.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Filled with love of friends and family and some thoughtful storytelling, this is a book that will enchant the reader.”—Fresh Fiction
Synopsis
Now in trade paperback-the new mystery series that spins a yarn about knitters and murder in a seaside village.Not long after Isabel "Izzy" Chambers opens up a knitting shop in the sleepy fishing town of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, a diverse group of women begins congregating each week to form the Seaside Knitters.
Izzy raises some eyebrows when she rents the apartment above her shop to Angie Archer, whose reputation for loose behavior and a quick temper has made her unpopular with many locals. But could any of them have wanted her dead? Angie's body is discovered drowned in the harbor, her long red hair tangled like seaweed in a lobster trap.
An official investigation rules the death an accident. There are speculations of too many whiskey sours, a slippery wharf, a dark night...But Izzy and the Seaside Knitters smell something fishy. When several strange incidents occur above the shop, the women decide to take matters into their own hands. But before long, their small-town sense of security is frayed, and the threat of more violence hangs over this tightly knit community...
Synopsis
Not long after Isabel Chambers opens up a knitting shop in a sleepy fishing town, a diverse group of women begins congregating each week to form the Seaside Knitters. When several strange incidents occur in the apartment above the shop, the Seaside Knitters smell something fishy.
Synopsis
It’s summer in Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, and while tourists flock to the beautiful cottages by the sea, trouble brews for the Seaside Knitters. One of them gets tangled up with a precocious granddaughter and another stands accused of casting a local resident off on a permanent vacation.As Izzy Chambers and the Seaside Knitters prepare Izzy’s yarn studio for the tourist season, fellow knitter Birdie Favazza has her hands full with a visiting granddaughter she never knew existed. Gabby soon becomes a fixture in the town—riding off on Birdie’s bike, teaching her own crochet class, even striking up an unlikely friendship with a reclusive local fisherman named Finnegan, himself the source of much local turbulence.
But it’s Cass Halloran, the lobsterwoman, who stumbles over the body of the old fisherman, covered with leaves and sea grass, and wearing the yellow fleece vest she once made him. When Cass unwittingly becomes a suspect in his murder, the knitters rally to protect their dear friend.
Soon the Seaside Knitters will discover that caring for Gabby while casting their net for a killer is tricky business indeed. They’ll have to keep their wits about them as they piece together the clues, working to catch a killer before one of their own winds up knitting behind bars.
Synopsis
The sun is shining in Sea Harbor and a group of friends, the Seaside Knitters, are spending Thursday evenings knitting the sweetest of gifts—a baby blanket. But as the due date draws near, they find they must take time away from their needles and yarn to confront a murder and untangle a mystery before a certain baby is brought into the world.... It’s an exciting time for yarn shop owner Izzy Chambers Perry. She and her new husband are expecting a baby, and all of Sea Harbor seems to be rejoicing with them. As a mother-to-be, Izzy is having a heady summer—full of bike rides, runs along the shore, and time spent with her aunt Nell and the other Seaside Knitters—until the day she spots an abandoned baby car seat and hand-knit blanket on the beach. Izzy immediately recognizes the blanket’s material—a soft yellow angora yarn she displayed in her shop window last fall. Maybe it’s the hormones, but Izzy has a terrible premonition, and when she realizes no one is claiming the car seat, she shoves it in her trunk. Soon it starts taking over her thoughts and her dreams. What happened to the baby who once sat inside it?
Unfortunately, Izzy’s fear of something bad happening comes true when a young man who did odd jobs at her doctor’s clinic is killed during a scuba dive. When Izzy discovers the man was actually murdered and is connected to the abandoned car seat, the crime becomes too close for comfort and Izzy asks her aunt Nell and knitting pals to investigate. It’ll take the Seaside Knitters’ careful attention to patterns—and their fierce commitment to bringing Izzy and Sam’s baby into a peaceful town—to knit this mystery together....
Synopsis
It’s summer in Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, and while tourists flock to the beautiful cottages by the sea, trouble brews for the Seaside Knitters. One of them gets tangled up with a precocious granddaughter and another stands accused of casting a local resident off on a permanent vacation.As Izzy Chambers and the Seaside Knitters prepare Izzy’s yarn studio for the tourist season, fellow knitter Birdie Favazza has her hands full with a visiting granddaughter she never knew existed. Gabby soon becomes a fixture in the town—riding off on Birdie’s bike, teaching her own crochet class, even striking up an unlikely friendship with a reclusive local fisherman named Finnegan, himself the source of much local turbulence.
But it’s Cass Halloran, the lobsterwoman, who stumbles over the body of the old fisherman, covered with leaves and sea grass, and wearing the yellow fleece vest she once made him. When Cass unwittingly becomes a suspect in his murder, the knitters rally to protect their dear friend.
Soon the Seaside Knitters will discover that caring for Gabby while casting their net for a killer is tricky business indeed. They’ll have to keep their wits about them as they piece together the clues, working to catch a killer before one of their own winds up knitting behind bars.
Synopsis
The Seaside Knitters of sunny Sea Harbor are busy crafting a baby blanket for a member of their circle. But as the due date draws near, so does a puzzling plot....
Yarn shop owner Izzy Chambers Perry is having a heady summer. She and her new husband, Sam, are expecting a baby. Shes trying to stay active with bike rides, runs along the shore, and spending time with the Seaside Knittersuntil the day she spots an abandoned baby car seat and a familiar blanket on the beach. Izzy immediately recognizes the blankets materiala soft yellow angora yarn she displayed in her shop window last fall. Maybe its the hormones, but Izzy has a terrible feeling....
After a local man dies during a scuba dive, Izzy discovers he was actually murdered and is connected to the abandoned car seat. Now its up to the Seaside Knitters to investigate. With their careful attention to patternsand their fierce commitment to bringing Izzy and Sams baby into a peaceful towntheyre determined to knit this mystery together.
KNITTING PATTERN INCLUDED
Synopsis
Its autumn in Sea Harbor, and as the tourists leave, a mysterious guest arrives. When shes implicated in a crime, the Seaside Knitters must quickly table their knitting project and search out a motif for murder.
Fall is usually a relaxing time in Sea Harbor, but its turning out to be a busy season for Izzy Chambers Perry. Not only is she helping the Seaside Knitters make a magnificent throw to celebrate the fortieth wedding anniversary of her aunt and uncle, but she and her husband are finally selling the cottage she lived in before she got married and had a darling baby girl. To Izzys surprise, newcomer Julia Ainsley seems determined to buy the homealthough shes never set foot inside.
But on the day of the open house, things take a dark turn. A body is uncovered in the cottages backyard. When the police find Julias name and phone number in the victims pocket, this slender thread of evidence makes her a person of interest. Soon the spotlight of suspicion widens to include old friends and town leaders as a tragic happening, long buried in the sleepy seaside town, is slowly brought to the surface.
Before the joyful anniversary celebration can be realized, the Seaside Knitters must work to unravel the real reason Julia Ainsley has come to their townand the tangled and troubled ties from the past that bind friends and townsfolk together.
KNITTING PATTERN INCLUDED
About the Author
Sally Goldenbaum is a sometime philosophy teacher, a knitter, and an editor, and the author of more than two dozen novels. Sally became more serious about knitting with the birth of her first grandchild and the creation of the Seaside Knitters mystery series. Her fictional knitting friends are teaching her the intricacies of women’s friendship, the mysteries of small-town living, and the very best way to pick up dropped stitches on a lacy knit shawl.