The Knitter's Last Loose End

Hazel Pruitt has knitted through three husbands and every storm Bainbridge Island ever threw at her. She can read a gauge, a face, and a lie. When her oldest friend — the founder of the island's fiber guild — is found strangled with her own merino, the sheriff blames the guild's rescue goat. Hazel blames a person. Following a knitting journal full of deliberately dropped stitches, she unspools a chart that maps docked ferries, boatyard ledgers, and a developer's quiet plan to take the marina from the island's fishing families. Two more deaths follow, staged as accidents at the water's edge. The charming man courting Hazel's granddaughter is always nearby, always helpful, always one row ahead. At the Wool & Water Festival, Hazel sets a trap of yarn and cameras — because some knots, once tied, can only be cut by the truth.