{"id":1427,"date":"2014-08-24T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T02:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2014-08-24T20:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T02:00:48","slug":"denise-swanson-murder-of-a-needled-knitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/denise-swanson-murder-of-a-needled-knitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Denise Swanson: Murder of a Needled Knitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Murder<\/a>Denise Swanson, 17 books into her Scumble River series featuring school psychologist Skye Denison, has at last married Skye off to her sweetheart, Wally, and sent them off on their honeymoon aboard a cruise ship.\u00a0 Guess who else turns out to be aboard?\u00a0 Skye\u2019s best pal, Trixie, on a cruise with her own husband, and her parents. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Swanson pretty much could have left her plot at that:\u00a0 your parents on your honeymoon?\u00a0 Anyone\u2019s nightmare.\u00a0 But she\u2019s never been a lazy writer and she\u2019s not about to start now, as she also arranges for there to be a group of knitters on board (hence Skye\u2019s mother, May), complete with an obnoxious group leader, hated by all.\u00a0 It\u2019s not long before the much hated Guinevere is a goner and the entire knitting group including especially Skye\u2019s mother, who had public words with her, are suspects.<\/p>\n

While the knitting group is comfortably familiar to anyone who has a passion \u2013 a book club, a needlepoint group, a painter\u2019s group \u2013 the specifics of the knitters themselves, who also make for a well rounded suspect list, add spice to the story, as does Wally, Skye, and Trixie\u2019s investigation into the murder as laws aboard a cruise ship are a little more lax than they are onshore.<\/p>\n

But what I really enjoyed about this book was the cruise itself \u2013 I felt like I was on one, so well does Swanson depict the ship, the food, the nightlife and activities, and the ports of call.\u00a0 It was fun for this reader to see Skye out of her usual element and I ended up the book both satisfied with another great story and \u00a0\u2013 hungry!\u00a0 People on cruise ships apparently do nothing but eat and it all sounds delicious.\u00a0 More, please, Ms. Swanson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Denise Swanson, 17 books into her Scumble River series featuring school psychologist Skye Denison, has at last married Skye off to her sweetheart, Wally, and sent them off on their honeymoon aboard a cruise ship.\u00a0 Guess who else turns out to be aboard?\u00a0 Skye\u2019s best pal, Trixie, on a cruise with her own husband, and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-americancozy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}