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The Books of Betty Hechtman - Crochet Mysteries
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$blurb = "In the 14th Crochet Mystery, ONE FOR THE HOOKS, Molly gets a life changing offer while dealing with drones,
short term rentals, orphan yarn and the news she's going to be a grandmother.";
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$blurb = "The Tarzana Hookers crochet club is ready for its close-up! But Molly Pink may be getting too close to a
case that will land her on the cutting-room floor.
Molly Pink's excitement level is off the hook: The Craftee Channel's new cable talk show &qupt;Creating with Crochet"
has scheduled an upcoming taping at the bookstore. While she's there, TV host Rory Graham is to work with the Tarzana Hookers
on a Make and Take bracelet project to draw bookstore customers to the yarn section. It's a win-win -- or so it "seams".
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"A lively ensemble cast led by Molly Pink, assistant manager of Shedd & Royal Books in Tarzana, Calif. lifts Hechtman's entertaining, well-paced 13th Crochet mystery."
- Publisher's Weekly
"Hechtman's lucky 13th is a character-driven cozy whose mystery is solid enough to raise it above the average."
- Kirkus
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By hook or crook, Molly will clear her name in On the Hook, Betty Hechtman's irresistible twelfth Crochet Mystery.";
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Molly and the Tarzana Hookers are busy getting ready to start Yarn University at the bookstore and they decide to hold a practice class at crocheter CeeCee's mansion.
But before the lesson begins, Molly and the gang stumble upon a dead body in the apartment above CeeCee's garage.
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When Molly is invited to a major society wedding, she expects some wedding drama.
Though she never anticipated this much trouble. The bride is the daughter of Molly's
close friend Mason - who has been planning this wedding for a long time. But at the
reception, things go amiss when the wealthy groom ends up dancing with the grim reaper.
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In their sixth adventure, Molly Pink and her crochet group, the Tarzana Hookers, are thrilled when one of their
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the entertainment biz can be deadly...
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$blurb = "Molly Pink and the Tarzana Hookers are at it again in the fourth crochet mystery. This time they're at a creative retreat on the Monterey Peninsula. Amid crochet and campfires, one of the instructors turns up dead and Molly and her cohorts are left to untangle this tightly twisted yarn.";
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