A Crochet & Crumpets Mystery!
"Hechtman joyfully turns many timeworn cozy tropes on their heads . . . If the Booker Prize had a category for cozies, this would be a contender."
- Kirkus Reviews
"In a neat reversal on tales of fame and fortune in the big city, a pair of L.A. 20-somethings find adventure in rural Indiana."
"Every perk Annie Sara Hart enjoys as the daughter of talent agent Bryan Hart comes with a hefty price tag. At 10, she was assigned
the task of being best friends with Gray Hanover, the daughter of Bryan's rich and famous client Camille Constantine, giving her
access to a world of wealth and privilege but denying her the opportunity to make her own friends. Now in her late 20s, Annie Sara
is still tethered to Gray, working at her Camille-funded boutique. When she inherits a derelict knitting shop in the Midwest from
her uncle, she rejects Gray's whiny claim that she can't run Malibu Kids without her and demands two weeks off to check out the one
thing in life that belongs to her alone. Her plan: assess her holdings, make renovations to render the shop marketable, sell up,
come home. But Franklin, Indiana, is a revelation to her - a combination of welcoming and mysterious, with unexpected kindnesses and
unexpected blind spots. (The murder of the shop's previous owner, for example, is all but swept under the rug.) Instead of going home,
Annie Sara has Gray shipped out to Indiana, along with a freezer full of restricted-calorie meals and instructions from Bryan and
Camille to make sure Gray returns still able to fit into the minuscule jeans required for an upcoming photo shoot."
"But the young women have their own ideas, and seeing them take root and flourish is groundbreaking. Hechtman joyfully turns many timeworn cozy
tropes on their heads. (Instead of an elderly maiden aunt, for example, Annie Sara inherits her windfall from a travel writer uncle
who died on an expedition to Peru.) But most of all, she creates characters who are rich, complicated, and altogether human. If the
Booker Prize had a category for cozies, this would be a contender."
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