Murder & Merino

A Knitorious Murder Mystery, Book 3

By: Reagan Davis

Narrated by: Zim Avaltrades

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's Summary

My name is Megan, and I have a knack for two things: discovering dead bodies and uncovering secrets.

I don’t go looking for dead friends and neighbors. They just show up.

Like when my best friend and I are on our way to lunch and stumble across Jill Plumb’s dead body.

Jill’s death was no accident. It was murder. Untangling the mystery of her death unravels a string of secrets that were never meant to be revealed. 

One of these secrets cost Jill her life, but which one? 

With a little help from my friends, I’m determined to find out and get Jill’s killer off the streets of my sweet, cozy town before they kill again.

Stitches are like clues, individually they don’t look like much, but look at a bunch of them together and suddenly you have a sock...or a killer. 

The book includes a link to a free knitting pattern at the end of the book

If you like your cozy mysteries with a bit of humor, small-town Canadian life, a hint of romance, a close circle of quirky, lovable characters that you wish you knew in real life, dogs and cats, and free knitting patterns, there's something in this series for you.

Clean listen: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.

Each book in the Knitorious murder mystery series is a stand-alone mystery that is solved by the end of the book. The books can be listened to in any order, however the characters lives and relationships evolve and change over time.

©2020 Carpe Filum Press (P)2021 Carpe Filum Press

I am enjoying this series

I really like the stories in this series and at least the narration is getting slightly better. She still makes side characters sound slow and stupid and her male voices sound dopey, slow and dumb, but she's trying.

Murder and Merino

This is a great series! Megan is the main character in this series. Her friends and all of the other characters are all fun! Megan has a knack of somehow getting involved with dead bodies being found. This time it’s happened again. Megan does a little snooping of her own and discovers a lot of secrets around town. I listened to the audiobook and the narration was easy to listen to.

Crafts and crimes

Murder & Merino by Reagan Davis is the 3rd in the Knitorious Murder Mystery Series and is another winner. This cozy mystery book deals with more serious topics of dementia and domestic violence also. The characters are believable and relate to each other as friends do naturally. The story is well written with some surprise twists. The narrator was good and brought the characters to life. That being said, the voice for Eric the Police Detective is really weird and creepy and because of that I picture him like a psycho in a slasher film. But he’s not, he really is a good guy. Overall, great book and great series!

Interesting twist on a cozy

I listened to this. It is set in Harmony Lake, Canada. The murder and investigation were interesting with plenty of twists and turns. We deal with topics such as domestic violence in this installment. I really enjoyed the background on Megan, Eric and a few others. This cozy has a sense of being more mature than some of the others. For one, everyone is concerned not to be the next victim while trying to suss out why Jill was killed.

The narrator did a great job.

Well-written engaging mystery

I really enjoyed this well-written cozy mystery! I listened to all 8 hours in one day. This series just keeps getting better! This works as a standalone, but I recommend the entire series. Good story that’s well-narrated.

Just gets better and better

I loved this book and think the series just gets better and better the more you get to know the wonderful characters. This is book three and you don't need to read or listen to the books in order as each book is a standalone mystery but why would want to miss out on laughs, twists, romance, adventure, pets and murder? Everything you want from a great cozy mystery series. The mystery was interesting and I liked the way the author kept you guessing over the reason behind the motive and with so many suspects I kept changing my mind, I think I might have even suspected someone who wasn't even a suspect at one point. I like the small town feel of the book, the way everybody know everyone and is willing to help there neighbours. Also the knitting shop is a nice change for a job but don't worry Megan is to busy solving a murder to confuse you with knit one pearl one. The story is broken up with some light hearted animal antics, not to mention the reason the body was found and in some great characters and you are in to a winner. I can't wait for the next book.
Living in a small town has it advantages like when a dog is found running around in the streets, someone is going to know who he belongs to. That someone is Megan the owner of the Notorious Knitting shop who is just in her way out for lunch and has plenty of time to return him back to her elderly owner. Rather than dropping him off and leaving, Megan offers to wash his dirty paws out back and in doing so stumbles over the cold dead body of one of the elderly priests careers. Who would want Jill dead? The property developer who wants the elderly man to sell his house and the man Jill chased out of the house? Or was the motive more personal? And her husband believed the rumours about her affair? Then only clue is a bag full of money and an elderly man's ramblings about a bad man. Can Megan stitch the clues together and find the killer?
I liked the narrator. She really helped to bring the story to Life by giving the characters some great voices.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.