Harriet Engle is an avid reader of several authors who write murder mystery series.

Next (and final review): Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear Canadeo puts together an intriguing mystery that can have you guessing up to the very end. Dana, Suzanne, and Lucy team up to try to figure things out. Was it an accident? Was it suicide? Was it Gloria’s former lover? This comes just three months after Maggie’s harrowing experience as a suspect in the murder of the owner of a rival yarn shop, and Maggie is very reluctant to become involved. The morning of her first showing to a young couple, who look like excellent prospects, Suzanne finds Gloria face down in her pool. Suzanne is a real estate agent, and when she hears that Gloria would like to sell her spacious house in an upscale community, she cannot believe her luck. She has joined Maggie’s knitting group and meets with Dana, Suzanne, Lucy, and Phoebe Thursday evenings for dinner and knitting. But the pointed evidence has a detective casting a suspicious eye on Maggie.Gloria is a beautiful and wealthy woman, married once to a wealthy man, widowed, and currently married to a much younger man – a hunk.

Then again, it wasn't hard to dislike Amanda-the contentious woman, whose marriage was on the rocks, seemed to specialize in causing misery all over town. Maggie had reasons to dislike Amanda, a thorn in her side ever since Maggie's shop surpassed Amanda's in popularity.

But the celebration is upstaged when Amanda Goran, the owner of the rival Knitting Nest, is found dead in her shop on the other side of town. Maggie Messina, beloved owner of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop, is thrilled to be hosting a workshop for one of her former students, now a celebrity in the knitting world. Now a shocking murder has peaceful Plum Harbor, Massachusetts, in knots -and the Black Sheep women must herd together to protect one of their own from a scandalous frame-up. The Black Sheep Knitters-Maggie, Lucy, Dana, Suzanne, and Phoebe-meet once a week without fail, sharing the varied and colorful skeins of their lives as much as knitting tips, recipes, and small-town gossip, and creating an intricate, durable pattern of friendship. Follow a group of women as they discover the depths of their friendship when a murder rocks their peaceful Massachusetts town in this cozy mystery from Anne Canadeo.

While my pretty one knits