Review: Dyeing Wishes

Dyeing Wishes by Molly MacRae
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 Star review for Dyeing Wishes. This is the second book in the A Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery. The story continues on from where it left off in the first book. Kath Rutledge grandmother Ivy, left her her little knitting shop, and all of Ivy’s friends have become Kath’s new friends. Kath and her TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Fiber) knitters club go and visit their friend Debbie’s farm, where she has just had some baby lambs born, but they are also there to learn how to dye the wool. While they are out looking at the lambs, Kath can’t help but notice there are a lot of sheep huddled around one spot. When Kath takes a closure look, she discovers two dead bodies on Debbie’s land, and Debbie knows them.

Kath has every intention to leave the investigating to the police, namely Deputy Clod Dunbar, who still doesn’t seem nice and is more irritated by Kath and her “posse”, namely the members of TGIF, who encourage Kath to investigate so they can help their friend Debbie. When Deputy Clod gets under Kath’s skin, she gather’s her posse and start investigating on their own, with what they know. With the help of Kath’s ghost friend Geneva, who lives with Kath and will appear and talk to her at the most incontinent times, mainly when Kath is talking to another human.

Most of the characters are believable, but Geneva at times seems to be a little whinny, and almost childlike. Although the author has never said how old she actually is, one is led to believe that she is an adult, and very, very naive. The play between all the characters are starting to develop and you can almost see where the author is taking them. There still room for them all to develop more. I didn’t figure out who could of done the murder until I was almost two-thirds of the way done, but I did figure it out.

In the first book, the author tells you that the grandmother was a witch and that Kath was one also, but the author has elaborated on this any mean. It is mentioned one time in this installment and then nothing more. I don’t know if it will ever be fully explained or if the “Haunted” is going to be Geneva. I’ll have to continue on with the series to find out.

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