Knitting
My mother was constantly knitting, but I never took it up. Seems it might be a good way to solve a cozy mystery though. This page includes knitting, crochet, and weaving, jobs which involve pulling one strand through another.
The Bait & Stitch Mysteries (Ann Yost) When an Upper Michigan Finnish-American Community is shocked by murder, local knitter Hatti Lehtinen searches for answers. There’s never been a serious crime in the Keweenaw Peninsula that anyone can remember.
The Black Sheep & Co. Mysteries (Anne Canadeo) A relaxing girls’ getaway turns deadly for the Black Sheep Knitters when a pushy killer is on the prowl.
The Black Sheep Knitting Mysteries (Anne Canadeo) The Black Sheep Knitters—Maggie, Lucy, Dana, Suzanne, and Phoebe—meet once a week without fail, sharing the varied and colorful skeins of their lives as much as knitting tips, recipes, and small-town gossip, and creating an intricate, durable pattern of friendship.
The Boston Bobble Yarn Shop Mysteries (Tanya D. Brown) Josephine Washington finds her roommate dead in their apartment and she has to rely on her friends and knitting to keep her sane while they try and figure out who the killer is.
The Cambridge Bookshop Mysteries (Elizabeth Penney)
The Charmed Cat Mysteries (Peggy Webb) Maggie Wild had it all, until she stumbled upon the secret activities of her former employer. Now she’s hiding out in New Orleans with her eccentric great aunts. What could be safer than two little old ladies who own a lotion and potion shop and think their cat can talk?
The Crabapple Yarns Mysteries (Jaime Marsman) Molly Stevenson rather expected her new job at Crabapple Yarns to be deadly boring… but somehow she just didn’t expect the “deadly” part to be quite so literal. After all, what could possibly be more sweet and innocent than a yarn store and a bunch of ladies knitting?
The Craft Fair Knitters Mysteries (Emmie Caldwell) Knitting enthusiast Lia Geiger has a good feeling about this year’s Crandalsburg Craft Fair. But things quickly get knotty with the murder of her best friend’s ex-husband. Lia and her crafty group of Ninth Street Knitters must put down their needles to gather clues and save their crafting community.
The Crochet Mysteries (Betty Hechtman) For Molly Pink, the weekly crochet group at Shedd & Royal Books and More was just another event to manage.
The Flock & Fiber Mysteries (Veryl Ann Grace) Martha Williamson is the owner of The Spider’s Web — a shop specializing in spinning and weaving. She lives with her two Great Pyrenees dogs, Falcor and Denali, on a small farm near Black Hills, Washington.
The Gray-Haired Knitting Detectives Mysteries (Elaine Spaan)
The Happy Hookers Club Mysteries (Becky Klauer) Breezy Marston is almost 30 and doing her best to re-rail her derailed life plan. Her best friend, Ammyleigh, throws out an idea for them to start their own business making homemade crochet items.
The Knit & Nibble Mysteries (Peggy Ehrhart) Since her only daughter left for college, widow Pamela Paterson has kept busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of the Knit and Nibble knitting club in quaint Arborville, New Jersey. Now, she’s trying out a new hobby—solving murders!
The Knit Witch Mysteries (Caitlin Rodriguez)
The Knit Witch Mysteries (Lyla Lockwood)
The Knitorious Murder Mysteries (Reagan Davis) In a small town where everyone has a secret, no one is talking to the out-of-town cop who’s been brought in to solve a murder. So, armed with everything she’s learned from watching murder mysteries on TV, Megan Martel decides to find the real killer and clear her name.
The Knitting Mysteries (Maggie Sefton)
The Knitting Mysteries (Mary Kruger)
The Knitty Kitties Mysteries (Tracey Drew) Tessa Wakefield is a busy woman. Between running her cozy craft store and refereeing family drama, the last thing on Tessa’s mind is murder. But when her brother gets stitched up as a murder suspect, Tessa embraces her inner sleuth, joins forces with her crafty friends, and starts snooping.
The Knitty Kitty Mysteries (Katherine Hayton) A sudden death has Tash Mallory all stitched up! Tash Mallory’s future is in the balance when her employer fires her from the knitting shop job she’s held for twenty years. Even worse, when Tash returns to confront her, she finds her boss’ dead body in the back room.
The Lucy Stone Mysteries (Leslie Meier) As if baking holiday cookies, knitting a sweater for her husband’s gift, and making her daughter’s angel costume for the church pageant weren’t enough things for Lucy Stone’s busy Christmas schedule, she’s also working nights at the famous mail-order company Country Cousins.
The Nettie’s Knit Shop Mysteries (C. B. Landy)
The Riverbank Knitting Mysteries (Allie Pleiter) For Libby Beckett, opening her charming yarn shop, aptly named Y.A.R.N., and introducing customers to the joys of knitting and crochet, is the work she was meant to do.
The Scottish Shire Mysteries (Traci Hall)
The Seaside Knitters Mysteries (Sally Goldenbaum)
The Seaside Knitters Society Mysteries (Sally Goldenbaum)
The Tangled Web Mysteries (Sadie Hartwell) Josie Blair finds herself heading back to her hometown, and taking care of her great-uncle who was injured in a car accident. Josie is also tasked with selling the contents of his yarn shop, but the needling ladies of the Charity Knitters Association pose a far bigger challenge.
The Tink Tank Knitting Mysteries (Jessa Archer) Charlotte “Charlie” Shaw is a divorcée and empty nester running a knitting store/coffee shop in a rural Iowa college town.
The Vampire Knitting Club Mysteries (Nancy Warren) At a crossroads between a cringe-worthy past and an uncertain future, Lucy Swift travels to Oxford to visit her grandmother. With Gran’s undying love and knitting shop to keep her busy, Lucy can catch her breath and figure out what she’s going to do.
The Vampire Knitting Club: Cornwall Mysteries (Nancy Warren) Fascinated by the magic and myths in Cornwall, Boston-bred witch Jennifer Cunningham is falling in love with her new home. However, when she’s exploring a rocky beach one morning, she discovers a dead body.
The Weaving Mysteries (Carol Ann Martin) Della Wright has come to peaceful and picturesque Briar Hollow, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, to realize her lifelong dream of owning a weaving studio. To promote her new business, Della is offering weaving workshops for all levels of ability.
The Yarn Genie Mysteries (Celeste Bennett) Yarn Genie Imogene, a knitting agoraphobic, believes her new husband wants her billion-dollar inheritance and is willing to kill her to get it. On the run, she sheds her rich identity and navigates life without servants or money.
The Yarn Retreat Mysteries (Betty Hechtman) 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, Casey finds herself rising to the occasion.
The Yarn-Over Mysteries (B. K. Baxter) Ethel and Velma Harmon are two seventy-something sisters-in-law who refuse to let their ages slow them down. The only thing that takes their time away from the whole ball of yarn is, well, a ball of yarn. Crochet class can’t be missed. No matter what.