Knit One, Kill Two

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Knit One, Kill Two

Maggie Sefton

2005

The Summary

When Kelly Flynn returns to Colorado for her Aunt Helen's funeral, she expects the police have found the killer and solved the crime of her aunt's murder.  But then she learns her aunt has withdrawn a surprising amount of money - twenty thousand dollars, to be precise - and Kelly knows something is amiss.

Plagued by the inconsistencies of her aunt's gruesome demise and missing family relics, Kelly decides to do some digging of her own - and she will find out a startling secret about her aunt.  A secret she never expected from her bright, sensible reality.

The Good

Maggie Sefton's mystery novel is a quick, easy read.  It's intriguing with a dash of dark scandal to make it scintillating.  You're curious, one way or another, to see how things turn out for Kelly Flynn as she hunts for a killer and looks to unravel an incredible secret in her aunt's past.

The Bad

Knit One, Kill Two is an easy book into which you can jump, but not necessarily a book that can keep your attention for very long periods of time.  It's simple and it has enjoyable moments, but it's a book that once you figure out the mystery and divine an answer from the clues provided, you're hard-pressed to actually finish.

Moreover, some of the subplots are left dangling at the end of the book.  There's zero resolution for the little side adventures Kelly has, and you're still left with a couple questions by the end of the novel.

Over all, it isn't a very memorable story and it doesn't beckon to be read immediately.  But, luckily, it's easy to finish in a day - maybe, even an afternoon - if you're set on finishing a book from cover to cover and it actually has a recipe for cinnamon rolls, so that's pretty rewarding if you like to cook.

The Ugly

Well, it is a "murder mystery," so murder is obviously involved, but there's very little otherwise to make it a chillingly grisly novel.