But while Maggie’s workshops have given the knitters a unique view of the tensions at the little inn, can they make sense of a crime that is as complexly stranded as a Fair Isle sweater? When the killer murders a second time, the Black Sheep wonder if they’ve dropped a stitch and put themselves in mortal danger. The police seem to be following the wrong thread. And when a killer strikes during a mountaintop retreat, the Black Sheep wonder what the good doctor might be hiding. The doctor may have told all in a revealing autobiography, but from his ex-wife to the widow of his former business partner-both employees at the inn-Max seems mired in shadows from his past. Guests and staff at the Crystal Lake Inn are as varied as a mixed bag of yarn, but most colorful is certainly the owner, charismatic self-help guru and former psychiatrist Dr.

But while the friends are expert at counting stitches, they haven’t counted on murder. When Maggie Messina, owner of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop, is invited to give knitting workshops at a Berkshires spa resort, she manages to negotiate a cottage that fits all five of the Black Sheep for what promises to be a weekend of knitting bliss.

While my pretty one knits