


Before she knows it, Kelly finds that she has become an integral part of the knitting group and is knitting her very first scarf.Ī handsome local architect and builder, Steve, befriends Kelly’s Rottweiler, Carl, when Carl gets into trouble chasing golf balls from the adjacent golf course.

And when Kelly feels the soft silkiness of the mohair, alpaca, wool and cotton from all around the globe, she can’t quite believe that it is yarn. Azure blues, spring grass greens, raspberry sherbets and all colours of the rainbow begging to be touched. Her senses are engulfed by the colours of the full skeins of yarn and wool draped over antique displays like languorous rivers. That changes when she walks into the local re-vamped knitting shop the “House of Lambspun”. Helen had tried to teach Kelly to knit when she was a child, but Kelly is convinced that she had no talent for the craft. She is reintroduced to softball which she hasn’t played for years and she soon realises how much she loves its camaraderie. Kelly is entranced by the small town friendliness of Fort Connor and the thought of going back to her dull and intense life in the city becomes less appealing as she gets to know the locals. Settling her aunt’s affairs is also complicated by a recently arranged restrictive mortgage arrangement. Then there are the mysteries of the missing $20,000 in cash and family heirloom quilt. She is sure that they have arrested the wrong man. Kelly is soon convinced that her aunt’s death is not the result of a burglary gone wrong as the police believe. However, what she thinks will take a couple of weeks in April becomes a period of extended leave working from her aunt’s house. and returns to the small town of Fort Connor in North Colorado. When Kelly Flynn’s aunt Helen is murdered, Kelly leaves her job as an accountant in Washington, D.C. A review of Knit One, Kill Two, Knitting Mystery Book 1, written by Maggie Sefton.
