Yarn Skein Sabotage, The: A Cozy Mystery of Woolly Whodunits and a Twisted Tale

?? Yarn shop owner and knitting instructor Wooly Winthrop is hosting her weekly knitting class when the town's most demanding customer is found strangled with a rare, hand-dyed yarn skein from her own inventory. The police suspect a crime of passion, but Wooly notices the yarn has been deliberately tangled in a complex knot used by sailors and the victim's knitting project contains a coded message in Morse code via knit and purl stitches. With her shop's reputation unraveling faster than a cheap sweater, Wooly must cast on her own investigation. Assisted by her loyal knitting group and the handsome sheep farmer who supplies her wool, Wooly uncovers a tangled web involving yarn smuggling, rare breed sheep theft, and a counterfeit yarn operation. From suspicious dye lots that reveal chemical anomalies to fiber content that doesn't match the label, every skein tells a story. But when Wooly discovers the victim was blackmailing local crafters about their yarn stash secrets and pattern thefts, she realizes the killer is protecting a scheme more twisted than any cable knit. With the annual Fiber Festival approaching and the real culprit still spinning lies, Wooly must weave together the clues before her own thread gets permanently cut.