Betty Hechtman
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Molly Pink's excitement level is off the hook: The Craftee Channel's new cable talk show "Creating with Crochet" has scheduled an upcoming taping at the bookstore. While she's there, TV host Rory Graham is to work with the Tarzana Hookers on a Make and Take bracelet project to draw bookstore customers to the yarn section. It's a win-win...or so it "seams." The situation gets a bit knotted when channel producer Michael Kostner confides to Molly his...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Molly Pink is about to discover the joys of crochet. It’s a relaxing escape from her hectic life as a bookstore event manager . . . and from the stress of being Tarzana, California’s latest murder suspect.
For Molly, the weekly crochet group at Shedd & Royal Books and More was just another event to manage. Then she stumbled across the body of group leader Ellen Sheridan. Her complicated past with Ellen has made her a...
For Molly, the weekly crochet group at Shedd & Royal Books and More was just another event to manage. Then she stumbled across the body of group leader Ellen Sheridan. Her complicated past with Ellen has made her a...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Knitting and crocheting books are selling like crazy at Molly Pink's bookstore, so she sets up classes taught by the Tarzana Hookers. But Sheila, who's doing the most popular seminar, has a massive case of stage fright. The Hookers plan a practice class at crocheter CeeCee's mansion -- until they find a dead body in the apartment above the garage. If Molly can't unravel the clues, school might be out forever.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In October, thousands of monarch butterflies flock to California's Monterey Peninsula for the winter. To welcome the colorful guests, Cadbury by the Sea holds a week-long festival complete with a butterfly queen and court. Eager to show town spirit, Casey Feldstein is fluttering around setting up a yarn retreat, baking, and helping out at the festival. But when a former butterfly queen is found dead with a knife in her back after a Bless the Butterflies...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Casey Feldstein has her hands full with preparations at the Vista Del Mar hotel on the scenic Monterey Peninsula as another yarn retreat begins. The retreaters will be thrown for a loop this time, learning the trendy art of arm knitting and finger crocheting. But not everyone is enthusiastic about trying something new, and Casey is forced to come up with an alternative craft for her less adventurous pupils. Things go from worst to worsted when a...
7) Murder ink
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Veronica Blackstone is a writer for hire. Be it love letters, biographies, resumes or wedding vows, Veronica has you covered. Her latest assignment is writing a celebration of life book for the funeral of one-time client Rachel Ross who tragically died one year after her wedding. While researching Rachel's life, Veronica finds the information surrounding the circumstances of her death to be shrouded in mystery. No one quite knows what happened and...
8) YARN TO GO
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
THE FIRST YARN RETREAT MYSTERY!
Dessert chef Casey Feldstein doesn’t know a knitting needle from a crochet hook. But after her aunt dies unexpectedly, leaving Casey to run her yarn retreat business, the sweets baker finds herself rising to the occasion—and trying to unravel a murder mystery…
When Casey finds out that her late aunt’s business, Yarn2Go, has one more yarn retreat scheduled, she decides...
Dessert chef Casey Feldstein doesn’t know a knitting needle from a crochet hook. But after her aunt dies unexpectedly, leaving Casey to run her yarn retreat business, the sweets baker finds herself rising to the occasion—and trying to unravel a murder mystery…
When Casey finds out that her late aunt’s business, Yarn2Go, has one more yarn retreat scheduled, she decides...
Author
Language
English
Description
Reconnecting with old college friends on social media, Casey Feldstein gets roped into hosting a knitting retreat for the group. Tangled up in worries over how they'll judge her unconventional life and the rustic atmosphere at Vista Del Mar, she watches in dismay as the women arrive and their old personalities-- and old grudges-- surface. When one of the women is found dead, everyone at the retreat is a suspect-- and it seems everyone may have had...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"These are the dog days of August, but you won't catch the Tarzana Hookers crochet club napping. While Molly Pink knits together an idea for a new project, Miami Wilson busily converts a house she inherited into a rental property. But Miami is left shorthanded when Sloan Renner, the woman helping her clean out the house ends up dead under a pile of smelly seafood. A large drone had flown over the property discarding mollusk shells all over the backyard....
Author
Language
English
Description
Dessert chef Casey Feldstein is running a new retreat called "From Sheep to Shawl" at a resort on the Monterey Peninsula. Participants will learn about sheepshearing, fixing up the fleece, and spinning, and will eventually knit a lovely shawl. Expert spinner Nicole Welton has been hired to teach the fleece-to-fiber portion of the retreat. But when the teacher fails to show up for class and is found lying dead on the boardwalk, everyone's nerves are...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The yarn retreat group visiting Vista Del Mar has planned their own activities, so retreat host Casey Feldstein is looking forward to a stress-free weekend. But the locale is also playing host to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs along with a flock of bird-watchers, and soon everyone is wound up. When Casey discovers the body of one of the tech gurus, she begins to suspect murder. With so many suspects and connections emerging between the groups, Casey...
13) Knot guilty
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Molly Pink and her pals, the Tarzana Hookers, are ready to bring the craft of crochet to the masses. But when one of their members finds herself the prime suspect in a murder, the Hookers are going to have to switch their focus to fighting her bad rap.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a little showbiz razzle-dazzle, TV crime show L.A. 911 has taken some of the community's most mundane locations and turned them into cinematic backdrops, including the yard of Kelly Donahue. When Molly and the gang from the Tarzana Hookers visit their newest member to collect her crocheted items for the upcoming street fair, they're ushered out due to the TV crew's commotion. But the next day, they learn that someone silenced Kelly - permanently....
15) Making it write
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Maeve Winslow hires Veronica Blackstone to help write her memoirs. Maeve is the wife of a famous artist, and claims there's a surprise at the conclusion of the book that may be about his work. Before Maeve can reveal the truth to anyone, she's found dead. Can Veronica unravel the clues hidden within the memoir to discover who the killer is?."--Publisher
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Molly Pink and her crochet group, the Tarzana Hookers, are always game for a new adventure. But when their newest member is accused of turning her wedding into happily-never-after for the groom, Molly's chance to find the truth is hanging by a thread ... When Molly is invited to a major society wedding, she expects some wedding drama, though she never anticipated this much trouble. The bride is the daughter of Molly's close friend Mason--and has...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Veronica Blackstone is asked to write the copy for The Friends of Hyde Park's annual garden tour, she never expected to get involved in a violent death. But that's exactly what happens when author, Landon Donte, is found dead in a suspected suicide during a dinner to highlight the tour. But Veronica can sniff out murder and is soon on the case!" --
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Molly Pink's crochet group has a new mystery on their hands when they find a paper bag that contains a note that speaks of remorse, a diary entry of the sorrow of parting, and a complicated piece of filet crochet that offers an obscure clue in pictures. Things get even more complicated when they find the talented crocheter murdered by a box of poisoned marzipan apples."--Publishers description.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With two yarn retreats in the bag, Casey is looking forward to running her third one at Cadbury by the Sea's Vista Del Mar hotel on the Monterey Peninsula. This time, each knitter will get a Mystery Bag of knitting materials to turn into a personal project. But Casey gets tangled up in another retreat at the same hotel, when the organizer and his wife have a very public spat. As Casey is delivering her baked goods later that night, she finds the...
20) On the hook
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Synopsis: "By hook or crook, Molly will clear her name in On the Hook, national bestseller Betty Hechtman's irresistible twelfth Crochet Mystery. The Tarzana Hookers crochet club could come apart at the seams when thwarted ambition, shady ethics, and a puzzling murder converge. Molly Pink and the Tarzana Hookers are busy crocheting baby blankets for charity, but before long, they're tangled up in a mystery that may be their unraveling. The Hookers...