Title: Needled to Death
Author: Maggie Sefton
Pages: 239
Publication Date: 2005
Version: Paperback
Genre: Adult Fiction/Mystery
Summary Via Goodreads.com:
"Taking a troop of tourists to Vickie Claymore's alpaca farm doesn't earn knitter Kelly Flynn a warm welcome. Instead she finds Vickie splayed out on her original hand-woven rug, her blood seeping into the design."
My Review:
Vickie has the most beautiful alpacas you could ever see. Their wool is beautiful in color and is so soft it's like touching a cloud. This is the draw for a group of tourists who want to see the working alpaca farm. Kelly and her friends agree to be the "guides" for this tour, what they did not agree to was walking right onto a murder scene. Someone has murdered Vickie, the questions are who and why. Kelly has her own things to attend to, being she inherited a huge running ranch from a relative. She is no ranch hand and has to decide what to do with the ranch, the animals, and the hired help that keep it running. However, being the ever curious accountant she is, Kelly can't help but become deeply involved when she is asked to help settle the accounting matters for Vickie's estate. Soon she is drawn into the worst who done it she can imagine. The murderer has killed twice to keep secrets just that; secret. So will Kelly be safe trying to solve the murders? Who could have such anger in their heart to kill for a secret?
This is the second book in the series and I just had to continue reading the series after book one. I must say, however, that I was a tiny bit disappointed in this book. It really hit the ground running and then seemed to fizzle out and then picked up again at the end. What do I mean by fizzled out? Well, it's like the murder happened and then instead of following the murder the book kind of veered off to follow more of what was going on with the ranch Kelly inherited and the trip to see said ranch. Now, I realize it all kind of played a part in the continuation of the plot, but I just felt it didn't have the drive there for me to want to continue reading. I did keep going, but it was slower going, as I didn't really feel there was that, cant put it down, feel. Once I got through the middle of the book, it did begin to pick up again and the last section of the book was easy to keep reading to see what happened. The writing, as far as descriptions, was great. The characters were also great. The characters and their development is what, I believe, kept me reading on. I enjoy seeing where they are all headed and who they are all becoming as the book, and the series continued on. All in all this was an ok read, just a bit disappointing for me in the middle.
3/5 Stars
