Monica Ferris

In the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries, Betsy Devonshire has her hands tied between running her needlework shop and turning her sharp eye for deduction to solving crimes.  The Monday Bunch and other local knitters are participating in a fund-raising auction to save a community center, creating a growing pile of stuffed animals and toys right in front of the auctioneers as the audience bids.
Among those contributing the most knitted goods is temperamental businesswoman Maddy Hanover-who keels over halfway through the event.   After she is pronounced DOA, an autopsy reveals that Maddy had been poisoned. But how? And by whom? One of the prime suspects is her ruthless business rival Joe Mickels, who lost a bitterly contested property bid to Maddy.   When Mickels pleads his innocence to Betsy, she reluctantly believes him.
But if Betsy is going to uncover the real murderer's identity, she must first untangle the knots Maddy made in her relationships throughout her life.