Maggie Sefton - A Killer Stitch

This is the fourth book in the Knitting Mystery series. And I loved it. Read it all in just a few hours. Unfortunately, don't have the rest of the series yet.



Tis the season for knitters in chilly Fort Connor, Colorado: scarves, sweaters, mittens - and murder. Amid the seasonal cheer of her local family of cowboys and yarn weavers, Kelly Flynn's intent on trying to separate innocence from icy deceit ...

The House of Lambspun has been bombarded by holiday knitters. In the midst of overflwoning bins of sumptuous yarn, an unexpected winter romance buzzes in chorus with the spindles of shy new spinning instructor Lucy Adair. But when a rancher is foud dead in Bellevue Canyon, avid knitter and sometime-sleuth Kelly Flynn quickly puts festive pastimes aside.

With his reputation for lovin' and leavin' the ladies of Fort Connor, it seems a little strange that the victim's final admirer was a fiancée ... none other than the hopelessly bereaved Lucy Adair. Unluckily, Kelly also finds herself linked to the prime suspect in the case - a rejected former lover of the playboy rancher. Charged with keeping both spinner and spurned from going over the edge, she'll discover more than a few secrets tangled on this triad's bobbin ...



A great story, with an unexpected culprit I can say this time. And Kelly finally bought the mountain ranch she fell in love with, but is it really cursed? Only the next novel will answer that question for me. But things are heating up a bit with Steve I believe. So, write on mrs Sefton, I want to know more.

Don't know what to read now. Another cozy mystery series, or back to my usual historical or paranormal romance? Will think about it over making dinner. And my next blog will tell what I have decided on.

Maggie Sefton - A deadly yarn

I just finished the third book in The Knitting Mystery series, and I loved it. I will continue with the fourth one, and order all the other books so I can continue reading soon.



Kelly Flinn's finally feeling at home in Fort Connor, Colorado - especially when she's with her knitting buddies at House of Lambspun. But her friend Allison is ready to leave town - until someone cancels her trip, permanently.

Kelly and Megan could not be happier for their friend Allison Dubois - a young, talented, up-and-coming artist. Invited by a designer to join her New York studio, Allison is about to embark on a new life. But when Kelly en Megan arrive at Allison's apartment to drive her to the airport, they find her dead on the floor, apparently from an overdose of sleeping pills. The police suspect suicide, but Kelly and Megan aren't convinced.

Soon Kelly discovers that while Allison's career was on the fast-track, her social life was a mess. A bad news boyfriend, a jealous design sturend, and a mysterious man named Brian are all prime suspects in Kelly's book. Now it's up to Kelly and her crafty friends from the House of Lambspun to unravel this tightly stitched puzzle ...


I love reading cozy mysteries. Not only for the suspense part, but for a great deal the fact that you keep up to date with the main characters. What happens with them in their social life, with their friends. Kelly is a CPA for a large company in a big town, telecommuting at the moment. But she really wants to stay in Colorado, where she has inherited several properties. She really neads the income from her salary, but the workload is getting to big for her. Can she get enough consulting work to quit het big-career job?
She also loves to knit, is a fiber-hugger (which really sounds like fun, and almost makes me want to relearn how to knit), and plays softball in the evenings and weekends.

I like Kelly, and completely understand why she is not eager to start a relationship with Steve, although he is a really nice guy and honestly interested in her (and her big Rottweiler named Carl). So there is a little romantic angle in this series as well.

Maggie Sefton - Needled to Death

This is the second book in a nice cozy mystery serie.



Now that she’s been knitting up a storm with the help of her new friends at House of Lambspun, Kelly Flynn can’t imagine ever leaving Fort Connor, Colorado. But there’s trouble in her adopted hometown – and not just with her new sweater project…

When Kelly volunteers to take a troop of tourists to visit Vicky Claymore’s alpaca farm, she discovers Fort Connor isn’t as sedate as it seems. Instead of a warm welcome, they find Vicky splayed out on her original hand-woven rug, her blood seeping into the design …

The police jump on the case, but Kelly can’t resist doing a little investigative work on her own – even if it means taking a break from the sweater she’s been knitting in the round. Because a murderer is lurking in Fort Connor – waiting for the right moment to strike again…


If you like cozy mysteries, and you also like knitting, this series is right for you! Lot of info over knitting, yarns, wool and stuff. If you don’t know anything about it, it almost, almost makes you want to learn …
And the mystery itself is a good one. I’ll be reading on with the next book in this series.

Cherry Adair - Hide and Seek

This is the third book in the T-Flac series by Cherry Adair, published in 2001. I have started this book over a year ago, and stopped reading when the heroine did something very stupid. But I picked it up again today, and just continued where I left of, till it was finished. And I am glad that I did.



A steamy, heart-stopping thrill ride through the jungle as a woman living a lie is forced to trust the one man who can expose her secrets …

Posing as the spoiled girlfriend of an international crime lord, Delanie Eastman braves a remote mountain in South America to find her missing sister. The last person she expects to see is Kyle Wright, the man she had a torrid affair with four years ago. What is he doing so far from home? Though frightened and suspicious of this man who is not what he seems, Delanie cannot resist the dangerous attraction that draws her ever closer to him like a moth to flame.

Kyle is in the middle of his own secret mission and he’s not about to let the gorgeous, unpredictable Delanie ruin his carefully laid plans. He will guide Delanie out of the jungle by any means necessary – including seduction. But just one touch is all it takes to rekindle the intoxicating flame that still burns between them, igniting an arsenal of desire that could cost them their lives. For soon both are on the run, playing a lethal game of Hide and Seek.

Suzanne Enoch - A lady's guide to improper behaviour

This is the second novel in the Aventurer’s Club series. And as usual with a Suzanne Enoch novel, I loved it.



The Rules: A lady should always make polite conversation . . . Theresa Weller understands the rules of decorum, and is appalled when Colonel Bartholomew James disrupts a perfectly civilized dinner. This rude, insensitive man is the complete opposite of everything a gentleman should be - but with one searing kiss, Tess can think of no one else. A lady should never lose her temper . . . Aggravated beyond bearing by a man who speaks his mind, Tess wishes there was a guide to men like Bartholomew. Surely, with such an assortment of handsome, polite suitors to choose from, Tess should not ache for him. And a lady should never pursue a gentleman. She invites him on carriage rides and dares him to dance, and almost makes him want to return to Society. Bartholomew knows Tess wants to be seen as a proper miss, but deep down, he knows she is precisely the sort to spark his desire . . . A most improper lady.


Colonel Bartholomew James has come home from India severely wounded. While his legs tries to heal itself wrongly, he gets a membership to a secret club hosted by the Duke of Somerset. To what purpose, he has no idea. When his brother and sister show up in town, he tries to hide out at the club, he doesn’t want their pity. But when they start asking about his whereabouts, his grace tells him to get himself home, he is not supposed to expose the existence of the club to outsiders.

His brother (who is recently married) forces him to meet his inlaws at a quiet family dinner. Tolly sets out to be offending, to rid himself of his family obligations. They don’t need to know about his ordeal in India, his nightmares and his inability to take care of himself. But that plan backfires, when he meets the lovely Theresa Weller and she won’t take his bad manners, she gives back as good as he dishes out, and to top it of: she invites him to a ball to watch her dance! Intrigued as Tolly is, he even gets an invite to the thing to be there to watch her.

Tess has already several serious suitors wanting to marry her, but being a heiress herself, she has no hurry to get married. Or is she just waiting for the right man? Cause Tolly makes her feel alive, and his kisses …

But then the East India Company sets out to deny the existence of the Thuggees in India, proclaiming it to be rumours. As Tolly is the only survivor known, there is no one to back his story up, meaning his reputation is in tatters, and he is seen by his peers as a coward, a liar, who left his men to die because of a mistake he made. But despite her tendency to be a proper young miss, and avoiding any hint of scandal, Tess stands beside Tolly. Together they plan how to get his reputation back. But of course the Company won’t sit and watch, they have thousands of pounds to loose if the truth does come out …

I really loved this book. Original, and a good story. A strong, wounded hero, who gets his life back on track because of the woman he meets. And an equally strong heroin, who decides that after 13 years of propriety, she is due for some improper behaviour, and who finds out, she likes it.

New books for May 2010

This is a little list of new books which will be released this month. It will be nice to see if I actually get my greedy hands on them, and if I have the time to read them. Those are ofcourse some of my favourite authors:

May 2010:
J.R. Ward – Lover mine – BDB 8
Amanda Quick – Burning lamp
Cheyenne McCray – No werewolves allowed
Ilona Andrews – Magic bleeds – Kate Daniels 05
Suzanne Enoch – A lady’s guide to improper behaviour
Lisa Kleypas – Married by morning
Alexis Morgan – Vampire Vendetta
Bertrice Small – Crown of Destiny

J.R. Ward - Lover Mine

I thoroughly enjoyed Lover Mine, the 8th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.



In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other - vampire warriors, defenders of their race...John Matthew has been through his vampire transition and taken to the life of the Brotherhood with a vengeance, but he still can't shake the nightmare of his past and is unsure of his future as a warrior hero. He's made a promise to honour the Brotherhood and their fight with the slayers at all costs, until the love of his life is kidnapped and he is forced to make a choice that could change his life and the Brotherhood's forever...


It is very fast paced written, and it seems like the cursing and the violence is getting worse. But the story line itself keeps captivating me. In this book the main part is for John Matthew and Xhex, but there are flashbacks to the life of Darius, his father, and Thorment which gave a very good and useful insight in the history of the Brotherhood.

Xhex has been kidnapped by Lash in the previous novel, and John Matthew is doing whatever he can to find her, even things the Brotherhood probably won’t approve of. But he doesn’t want them to know the truth about his feelings for Xhex. He knows she doesn’t feel the same for him, and is ok with that, as long as she is safe.
So when finally Xhex has escaped, can he suppress his warrior instincts enough to let her fight Lash on her own, as she so desperately needs to do? And can Xhex look at the future, enough to choose for life, instead of the past and the end?
The emotions John Matthew feels for Xhex, makes him get closer to Thor again, understanding what happened with the Male after his shellan was murdered.

Lash, the son of the Omega, is starting a drug imperium, to finance the Lesser Society. But when he asks his father to convert a female, just for him, he gets disowned, and replaced by the little punk he just recruted himself! Ofcourse he can’t have that, now can he.

The parts between Qhuinn and Blaylock are wrought with emotions, but as I don’t like reading about gay romance, I am not interested about those kind of details, which were minimal lucky for me. Qhuinn is kind of screwing every woman he meets, and Blay is tired of pining away for him, waiting for something that will never happen. So when a nice guy is paying attention to him, attracted to him, he decides to go for it. And then Qhuinn will have to decide: will he go on with his charade, trying to get the approval of the glymera by bonding with a female of worth (if any of them will have him) or will he go for Blay after all?

So, a book with a lot of story lines. But they all come nicely together, and let me crave the next book.