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    Silence of the Lamb's Wool
    Silence of the Lamb's Wool
    Silence of the Lamb's Wool
    Audiobook9 hours

    Silence of the Lamb's Wool

    Written by Betty Hechtman

    Narrated by Margaret Strom

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    About this audiobook

    Dessert chef Casey Feldstein is running a new retreat called "From Sheep to Shawl" at a resort on the atmospheric Monterey Peninsula. Participants will learn about sheepshearing, fixing up the fleece, and spinning, and will eventually knit a lovely shawl.

    Nicole Welton has been hired to teach the fleece-to-fiber portion of the retreat. She's an expert spinner, and her small shop in Cadbury by the Sea houses a beautiful assortment of spinning wheels and drop spindles. But when the new teacher fails to show up for class and is found lying dead on the boardwalk, it leaves everyone's nerves frayed.

    Now Casey has to knit together clues faster than she can count stitches before someone else at the retreat gets dropped . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 23, 2017
    ISBN9781541473393
    Silence of the Lamb's Wool
    Author

    Betty Hechtman

    Betty Hechtman is the author of several beloved cozy mystery series. Her own love of mysteries started with Nancy Drew and blossomed when she began to read Agatha Christie's books. She has been doing handicrafts since she was a child, and it is a dream come true to be able to mix mystery and yarn craft in her books. Born in Chicago, she currently lives with her family in Los Angeles.

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    • 5/5
      Great cozy mystery with a good plot, believable and interesting characters. Some you're not sure of. I would just keep her and let her help with chores and cooking.
    • 3/5
      Casey Feldstein is a novice when it comes to running a knitting retreat. That’s why she hires Nicole Welton to handle a lot of the teaching. When Nicole turns up dead, Casey scrambles to find a replacement or else the retreat will fall flat. Casey, an experienced amateur sleuth, also has to scramble to find Nicole’s killer. That’s not good news to her would-be beau, a police officer. And as she ferrets out the secret behind Nicole’s killing, Casey may be putting herself in danger. But Casey has more to worry about. A hotel manager tries to sabotage the retreat so he can justify taking over the management of the supposedly lucrative knitting events. One of the two elderly sisters who own The Lodge is being courted by a man who appears to have designs on running the entire hotel himself. Plus Casey has another business to keep afloat – selling pastries to local restaurants/coffee shops. And her mom wants her to stop this knitting nonsense and go back to culinary school.This is a lighthearted cozy mystery, with a likable character and setting – the Monterey Peninsula in California. I thought the author tried to cram a little too much plot and too many extraneous characters into the book’s pages, but it was still a satisfying enough read.
    • 4/5
      Casey's "Sheep to Shawl" retreat seems doomed before it begins. The hotel decided to rid itself of wifi to provide a more introspective environment. Casey isn't sure this new policy will go over with her retreaters. The hotel manager won't allow the sheep on the grounds so they can get the fleeces. Before the event, her spinning instructor dies from a poisoned cup of coffee. Although police rule it a suicide, Casey doesn't believe it. Another spinner seems overly eager to take over the spinning instruction, and Casey really has no choice but to accept her somewhat pushy offer. One of the elderly sisters owning the hotel plans to marry a man Casey realizes wants to take over hotel operations and place his daughter who is attending the retreat as manager. Casey realizes if this happens she'll no longer have a venue for her retreats. Casey quickly realizes she needs to be more familiar with processes for future retreats so she feels in control of things in the future. On the murder front, with lots of suspects and different motives--and even the possibility the cops are correct that Nicole committed suicide, Casey places herself in danger many times. A secondary plot line ends with a cliff hanger. I missed the interaction in the retreat situation in this installment. We never really got to know many of the new attendees--just a trio of those returning from the first series installment. I hope the author makes the retreat seem a bit more realistic in future installments by introducing us to these persons.
    • 4/5
      Casey soon realizes that as a retreat leader, she could use some help. Her Sheep to Shawl event is troubled from the very beginning, but when the instructor is found dead, Casey knows she needs help and fast. Unwilling to take the police verdict of suicide seriously, Casey falls back on her true calling: detecting. She much better at being a private eye than she is at leading a yarn retreat. This second installment is not quite as good as the first book, but there is a continuing mystery which will entice you to keep reading the series.
    • 4/5
      Betty Hechtman's Yarn Retreat cozy series continues its winning ways in this second book. With my loathing of overbearing mother characters I have to admit that Hechtman thrilled me to bits when Casey's obnoxious, class conscious parent turns out to be barely a blip on the radar in Silence of the Lamb's Wool. But the non-appearance of one character is not why I enjoy this series so much. Beyond the gorgeous setting of California's Monterey Bay, Casey has gone to the trouble of actually learning how to knit-- something that's not always a requirement in cozy series like these. We're not hit over the head with what she's learned; it's just nice to know that she's interested. It's also good to see that she's not a fabulous business woman. Casey's well known for running when the going gets tough. To have her seamlessly take over her aunt's business when (1) she's never run a business before, and (2) she knows nothing about conducting retreats or even knitting for that matter, would be completely unrealistic. In this book Casey makes novice business mistakes, and I think it makes the story much stronger. Some readers may not be pleased with the knowledge that Silence of the Lamb's Wool ends with a cliffhanger, but it certainly makes me look forward to the third book in the series, Wound Up in Murder. The mystery in this book is a good, solid one that often left me guessing. The strong secondary cast helps Casey throughout, and I was happy to see that the retreat members were not involved in the story as deeply as they were in the first book. Hechtman isn't always going to use Casey's customers as murder victims. (Definitely not good for business!)An intriguing mystery, a strong cast of characters, a little romance for Casey, some yummy desserts, and a fascination with knitting all combine into a winning series that has me wanting more.