Review: Crewel Yule

Crewel Yule by Monica Ferris
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 Star reviews for Crewel Yule, the eighth book in A Needlecraft Mystery. I hadn’t read any of the other books in the series, and I was able to follow along nicely without feeling like I’ve missed a lot from the previous books. The characters were developed well, the story line moved on a nice pace, and the mystery wasn’t bad at all, it was a nice light mystery, however, I was bouncing between three suspects and I kept going back and forth, and when the perp was disclosed, I was pleased that they were one of the three that I suspected.

The big annual needlework show happens every year in February, but the hotel that books them had a conflict and moved it to December. Betsy Devonshire, the owner of Crewel World and her assistant Goddy are heading to Nashville for the convention. Their friend Jill, a police officer is also heading there to attend a conference for the police department. After they all arrive a huge snowstorm shuts down the town and everyone is snowed in.

But things start heating up when a fellow shop owner, Belle, falls from the ninth floor of the hotel. Jill is on hand to secure the scene since the local police department can’t get to them, she takes it upon herself to start gathering information, and questioning people, and looking for clues. When the hotel manager calls the police station to inform them of the “accident” they are thinking that it is a possible suicide, but Jill and Betsy doesn’t think so.

While Betsy and Jill start questioning people, they come to find out the woman that died wasn’t such a nice person after all. The three main suspects that would have motive to kill the woman is, Cherry Pie (yes, that’s her name in the book) she co-owns the shop with Belle, Lenora, a stay at home mom that is trying to break into being a designer, and an ex-employee of Cherry and Belle. All three have motives beyond means.


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