Why did Jacqueline love this book?
For years, I used to search for books about magic or the supernatural or alternate universes intersecting with the real world. Publishers mostly shunned them except for children’s books.
Today, there’s such a flood of paranormal cozy mysteries that it’s a challenge picking out ones that really work, that maintain believability while entertaining. Nancy Warren’s Vampire Knitting Club (first in a series) is the kind of fun, imaginative story I was looking for, combining a mystery with zany characters and an unusual premise. Vampires that knit? Cats that communicate?
This book lifted me out of the troubled ordinary world into a realm I’d love to visit again and again.
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Vampires who knit. A troublemaking witch. Who killed Granny — and is she really dead?At a crossroads between a cringe-worthy past (Todd the Toad) and an uncertain future (she's not exactly homeless, but it's close), Lucy Swift travels to Oxford to visit her grandmother. With Gran's undying love to count on and Cardinal Woolsey's, Gran's knitting shop, to keep her busy, Lucy can catch her breath and figure out what she's going to do.
Except it turns out that Gran is the undying. Or at least, the undead. But there's a death certificate. And a will, leaving the knitting shop…