Description: When a professor is poisoned, Pamela Paterson and the members of the Knit and Nibble knitting club must take a crash course in solving his mysterious murder. Pamela has organized a weekend-long knitting bee as part of a conference on fiber arts and crafts at Wendelstaff College. But when pompous Professor Robert Greer-Gordon Critter, the keynote speaker at the conference, crashes the bee, he seems more interested in flirting than knitting. The man's reputation as a philanderer supersedes his academic reputation. After coffee and cookies are served, the professor suddenly collapses, seemingly poisoned--but how? Everyone had the coffee and cookies. Joined by her bestie Bettina and the Knit and Nibble ladies, Pamela sorts through everything from red socks to red herrings to unravel the means and motives of a killer dead set on teaching the professor a lesson ...
Brief description: Peggy Ehrhart is the author of acclaimed cozy mysteries, including the Knit and Nibble Mystery series and the Quilt Whisperer Mysteries. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies as well as Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Crime and Suspense, Flashing in the Gutters, Spinetingler, Crime Scene: New Jersey 2, and Murder New York Style. A former English professor, she holds a PhD in medieval literature from the University of Illinois and taught writing and literature at Queens College, CUNY, and Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is a longtime member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and previously served as president of Sisters in Crime NY/TriState as well as on the board of MWA New York. A longtime knitter, quilter, needlepointer, and blues guitarist, she lives in New Jersey.