Friday, April 11, 2014

Review: Death by Cashmere by: Sally Goldenbaum

Title: Death by Cashmere
Author: Sally Goldenbaum
Publisher: New American Library
Pages: 320
Format: ebook
Series: A Seaside Knitters Mystery #1

Description:

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...

My Thoughts:

This book follows Izzy Chambers and her friends as they find out Angie Archer has been found dead in the water tangled up in lobster trap of a friend of theirs.

Izzy Chambers settled in Sea Harbor, Massachusetts after being a lawyer and leaving it behind to open a knitting shop.  Above her shop is an apartment where Angie Archer lives.  When Angie is missing one night people begin to wonder where she is but she turns up short enough, granted not alive.  Now the residents are trying to figure out if she committed suicide or was she murdered?  If she was murdered to who had the most to gain by her death?

There are in this book so many people that could have had something to gain by her death.  Was it her boyfriend or a guy who thought politeness was love?  Or a angry wife realizing her husband was in love with her?  Or a worker in the town who some thought was very weird?  There are so many possibilities, but the real truth really flames up the situation!

In this book we also meet Sam who is an old family friend of Izzy Chambers who is in need of an apartment and Izzy offers up Angie's old apartment. Angie looks to have spent time working on something for a kind old man of the community.  Uncovering long ago buried secrets.

I loved meeting all the local neighbors and learning about them and their connection to Nell, and Izzy.  It was a great adventure to read about!

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