Death of a Knit Wit

Peggy Ehrhart

Feb 2022 · A Knit & Nibble Mystery Book 8 · Kensington Cozies

About this ebook

When a professor is poisoned, Pamela Paterson and the members of the Knit and Nibble knitting club must take a crash course in solving his mysterious murder.
 
Pamela has organized a weekend-long knitting bee as part of a conference on fiber arts and crafts at Wendelstaff College. But when pompous Professor Robert Greer-Gordon Critter, the keynote speaker at the conference, crashes the bee, he seems more interested in flirting than knitting. The man’s reputation as a philanderer supersedes his academic reputation. After coffee and cookies are served, the professor suddenly collapses, seemingly poisoned—but how? Everyone had the coffee and cookies. Joined by her bestie Bettina and the Knit and Nibble ladies, Pamela sorts through everything from red socks to red herrings to unravel the means and motives of a killer dead set on teaching the professor a lesson . . .
 
Praise for Peggy Ehrhart and the Knit & Nibble Mysteries!

“[A] cuisine and character-driven cozy.”
—Kirkus Reviews on Knit of the Living Dead

“With an unlikely heroine and a knack for finding the 'pattern' in the murders, this is a series that will appeal to many cozy fans.”
—The Parkersburg News and Sentinel on Died in the Wool

Knitting tips and delicious recipe included!

 

Ratings and reviews

Here’s another cozy mystery that turned out to be a cute one. Although, I do think reading the previous novels in the A Knit and Nibble Mystery series would provide more context to references from the past that are within this book. Death of a Knit Wit has amateur sleuth, Pamela with her journalist best friend and neighbour, Bettina trying to solve the case of a much despised, womanizing professor at the local university who is accused of stealing his ex-wife’s research and ends up murdered. The victim unfortunately dies at the very event that Pamela hosted with her employer. Overall, the mystery was good and I did like how Bettina was with Pamela pretty much every step of the way because Pamela was more of a listen rather than ask sleuth. But a lot of times that won’t get you anywhere to crack a case and extroverted Bettina helped propel the story along. I do have to say there was quite an emphasis on what the characters were eating. Although the food sounded delicious, it was a bit too much detail that could have been cut back. I also wasn’t a fan of how the romance aspect played out in this particular story, but I am curious to find out what happens next. Thank you Kensington Books for the arc. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

cozy-mystery, neighbors, friendship, knitting, law-enforcement, murder, murder-investigation, small-town, New Jersey, poisons, romance, recipes, pattern***** Am I the only one who finds the endlessly repeated references to *wedding china* annoying? Is that a New Jersey thing? It clangs oddly to my Wisconsin ears. Which is diametrically opposed to how I feel about the story and the fiber/knitting/colorways/characters/sleuthing as a whole. The food references were delicious, the red herrings sneaky, the suspects multiplying, and the plot just a mite twisty. Basically, I loved it. I requested and received a free ebook from Kensington Books (soon to incorporate Kensington Cozies) via NetGalley. Thank you!

About the author

Peggy Ehrhart is a former English professor who lives in Leonia, New Jersey, where she writes mysteries and plays blues guitar. She holds a Ph.D. in medieval literature from the University of Illinois and taught writing and literature at Queens College, CUNY, and Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she was a tenured full professor. Her short stories have appeared in Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Crime and Suspense, Flashing in the Gutters, Spinetingler, Crime Scene: New Jersey 2, and Murder New York Style. A longtime member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, Peggy served on the board of MWA New York as head of the Mentor Committee. She was president of Sisters in Crime NY/TriState from 2013 to 2015. Peggy regularly attends mystery-writing conferences and participates in conference panels and also gives talks on mystery fiction at libraries in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.