Pamela Paterson’s daughter, Penny, is home for the Christmas holiday but her trip is off to a disturbing start when Penny discovers a dead body. Worse yet, the dead body is Millicent Farthingdale, the owner of a local craft shop and a friend of Pamela and her best friend, Bettina Fraser. Unfortunately, it seems quite a few people wanted Millicent dead, but Pamela and Bettina are determined to uncover the real culprit.

I absolutely love the idea of the Knit and Nibble knitting group! Peggy Ehrhart combines the fun of knitting with some scrumptious sounding Christmas treats in SILENT KNIT, DEADLY KNIT that made me want to head to the kitchen and start baking! I love crafting, particularly loom knitting, and the Knit and Nibble group is exactly the kind of crafting group I would love to join.

SILENT KNIT, DEADLY KNIT is the fourth book in A Knit and Nibble Mystery series. Peggy Ehrhart ensures that SILENT KNIT, DEADLY KNIT can easily be read as a standalone novel as she gives a great overview of the various personalities and their back stories. I’m looking forward to reading the earlier books to spend some more time with this fun knitting group! Peggy Ehrhart creates a warm, inviting cozy mystery that is perfect to curl up with by the fire while sipping on some hot chocolate.

This is book #4 in the delightful new "Knit & Nibble " Mystery Series by cozy author Peggy Ehrhart.. I have read the previous books in the series and have enjoyed each book . This next in series has a fun holiday theme. Thank you to the publisher and to Net Galley for the opportunity. My review opinions are my own. Review is cross posted across platforms.

In this next in series we return to the charming Arborville New Jersey. I love the authors depiction of the small community. Pamela is excited to have her college daughter home for the holidays. This book has lots of fun holiday flavor , sights and sounds throughout which make it the perfect holiday cozy. As they prepare for the holidays a murder occurs and once again Pamela is caught up in investigating with her Knit & Nibble friends who are also cooking up some exciting crafts and receipes for the holidays.

I like the sleuth to conclusion and the fast pace of this series. I love the small community and how friendly everyone is with one another. This is a series I do enjoy revisiting with each new release.

Silent Knit, Deadly Knit by Peggy Ehrhart is the 4th book in the Knit & Nibble Mystery series, and another fun addition. The Knit and Nibble knitters are at it again, this time sleuthing into the murder of Millicent Farthingale, a rich craft shop owner. This book kept me reading, it has so many twists and turns. I found this book to be a quick read, with well developed plot and and characters. I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series, you don't have to be a knitter to enjoy it. If you love fun cozy mysteries like I do, than I recommend this book.

I reviewed a digital arc provided by NetGalley and Kensington Publishing. Thank you.

As the Christmas season begins in Arborville the Knit and Nibblers group are planning a wonderful holiday. Pamela is looking forward to her daughter coming home from college and gathering ingredients for her poppy seed cakes. Bettina is baking and decorating Christmas cookies for her annual Christmas party. Everyone is looking forward to Christmas.
The joy of the season is ruined when Pamela’s daughter Penny finds the body of a wealthy shop owner murdered in a wooded area. Amateur sleuths Pamela and Bettina put their holiday preparations on hold to help solve the mystery of who killed Millicent and why.
A cozy mystery with very loveable characters. It is a special treat for knitters who love mysteries. This is the fourth book in a series. I would definitely recommend reading the series.
I received a complimentary book in exchange for my personal review. Thank you Kensington Books and NetGallery for the advance copy.

Fast paced cozy mystery that will put you on the mood for Christmas.
Lots of unexpected twists and a hint for the next instalment.

Dollycas’a Thoughts

Welcome to Arborville, New Jersey, just in time for the holidays . . . and a . . . MURDER!

When Pamela gets a frantic call from her daughter Penny saying she found a dead body while out hiking and sketching Pamela and the Knit and Nibblers rush to her side. Pamela identifies the body as none other than craft shop owner, Millicent Farthingale. With just a little digging many suspects are found but Pamela believes a scarf recently given to the victim and missing from her body is a key clue to finding the killer. With the Nibblers on the case, they hope to knit all the clues together and wrap up the case before their holiday celebrations.

I really enjoy catching up with these characters. If the Knit and Nibble group was real it would be one I would love to join. The members are diverse, all with their own quirks. They come together to create wonderful knit items, eat delicious snacks and snoop into the latest death that has taken place in their fine town. With each story, the author delves a little further into the lives of this eclectic group. She also introduces new characters in the form of suspects. She unveils more about them as the clues drop and the investigation continues.

In Silent Knit, Deadly Knit, the murder mystery is pretty straight forward and for me was more of a subplot. The main plot this time was more about the lives of the knitting group and the holidays. While the mystery was interesting I think this time the author’s writing style which is very descriptive took over pushing it into the background. I did enjoy all the baking and cooking, Pamela’s quest to find the perfect tree, and her trying to spend as much time with her daughter as possible. There were some funny and sentimental moments and the story did have a good flow. I just wish the mystery would have had as much depth as the characters I have come to love.

Pamela and Bettina make a great team whether sleuthing, butting into each other’s lives, or taking care of their friends. Following these ladies around through these pages is always entertaining. I do encourage the author to tighten up her writing a bit and put more focus on the mystery. I really liked the premise of a unique scarf as a strong connection. It really grabbed my focus. I also loved the description of the tunic Pamela was making for Penny. It sounds gorgeous!

Silent Knit, Deadly Knit is a nice addition to this series. To really get to know Pamela and the rest of the Knit and Nibble group you really need to read the series from the beginning.

As a knitter, I was quite excited to learn that there is a mystery series that focuses on a knitting club! It sounded like a fun little series and the book even includes a knitting pattern to boot. I found it quite slow and there was a lot of filler involving Christmas cookies, and meal preparation, and so on. The mystery was fun but it felt like it was a secondary focus. If you're in the mood for a cozy and slower mystery read, though, then this might be a good fit for you.

Thanks to the author, NetGalley, and Kensington Books for the opportunity to read an advance copy.

The characters are important in Peggy Ehrhart's Knit & Nibble cozy series, and I do enjoy them all, especially Pamela who has a tendency to remind me of me as far as my wardrobe (and a few other things) go.

In this fourth book in the series, Pamela is learning to trust her college-age daughter in the midst of all the holiday festivities. The mystery is a good one in Silent Knit, Deadly Knit, but it definitely takes a backseat to Christmas so keep that in mind. If you're in the mood for lots of holiday cheer and a little dash of mystery to spice it up, this will be perfect for you.

I love crafters and love doing crafts. I enjoyed both the story and the characters. The Knit and Nibble group, what a wonderful name for a great group. The relationship between these characters is great and I enjoyed getting to know them. They look out for each other and truly care for one another. I would like to have a job like Pamela’s. How fun would that be and get to do it from home. Wonder what will happen with Richard? Guess we’ll have to wait to find out. Hope you enjoy this book as much as I did. I received a copy from NetGalley, but my opinion is my own.

Thank you Netgalley & Kensington Books for giving me the Advance Review Copy in exchange for an honest review.
I really want to love this book since this is my first ever ARC. However, I am really sad to say that i am quite disappointed. I am the type who judges a book by its cover and I must say that the cover is really nice. It gave me this warm cozy vibe. I love Christmas stories with mysterious elements in it. I love that the book is very atmospheric with all the cooking and the baking and the parties but I feel that I got bored when the author spent more time describing how the food is being prepared than solving the mystery. The main characters are likable, I just wish that the author will develop these characters if there will be another installment.

Silent Knit Deadly Knit is a fast paced murder mystery. I enjoyed the plot and the cast of quirky characters. I believe mystery fans will enjoy this book. I received an arc from the publisher and this is my unbiased review.

I love this series and I read and I liked the previous instalments. I think that this is one is enjoyable and entertaining but it's also the weakest in this series.
This would have been 3,5* but I rounded to 4 because it was a pleasant read.
I think that there were too many descriptions of everyday life actions and this made the plot a bit slow and sometimes boring.
I was more than happy to meet again the cast of characters, both humane and pets, and to read about their life. They're all likeable and well written as usual.
The mystery was solid, full of twists and turns, and it kept me guessing till the last turn. Unfortunately it sometimes takes the backseat but it was interesting nonetheless.
I look forward to reading the next instalment.
Recommended.
Many thanks to Kensington Books and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

Silent Knit, Deadly Knit is the fourth book in Peggy Ehrhart’s Knit & Nibble Mystery series. This book is a light and entertaining read. The author’s descriptive writing flows smoothly; however, things repeated multiple times and cooking descriptions and daily routines that are somewhat monotonous. The well-developed characters are likable, and the mystery is interesting, but it plays a minor role in the book other than in a few scenes.

Pamela Paterson is a widow who lives in Arborville, New Jersey and has one daughter, Penny, who attends college, is home for her Christmas break. She’s an associate editor of a craft magazine and the founder of the Knit and Nibble knitting club. Bettina Fraser is her neighbor, friend, fellow knitter, and sleuthing partner. While Penny is sketching in the nature preserve, she finds the body of Millicent Farthingale, the owner of a craft shop in Timberley. Pamela and Bettina are determined to find the murderer.

I received an Advance Reader Copy of this book from NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed it.

What should have been a joyous holiday turns into chaos with a murdered shop owner and more suspects than you can count. A great holiday mystery to really get you into the season while still getting lost in the story. a solid series with engaging characters and a great plot.

Oh no! Penny has stumbled over the body of Millicent, a wealthy woman who has been taken advantage of more than once. Luckily, Penny is the daughter of Pamela, our intrepid amateur detective (and knitter) who, along with her friend Bettina, is expect at finding the truth. There's always more to the story than it appears on the surface and here the group of Knitters follows the trail of a red scarf, which turns up in multiple places, including around Penny's boyfriend's neck. This is as much about the nibbling as it is about the mystery- I wish there was more knitting. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. For cozy fans (and it's fine as a standalone.)

Pamela, a widow with a college daughter, leads an orderly and pleasant life. From her morning coffee and whole grain toast to her evenings spent knitting and watching British murder mysteries on TV, Pamela breaks up her home-based work as a magazine editor with brisk walks, knitting, community involvement, and social events with her friends and family.

Oh, and murders.

Somehow, Pamela keeps getting involved in local homicides. This book is set at Christmastime, and Pamela's holiday preparations are interrupted when her daughter, home from college for the holidays, almost literally stumbles on a corpse. Pamela and her knitting group buddies can't leave that mystery alone.

There are lots of holiday details, from fashion to recipes to party planning, and Pamela's quaint New Jersey town provides a pleasant backdrop for the meandering story. A little light romance and intriguing characters add to the fun.

This is the fourth book in the cozy “Knit & Nibble Mystery” series. I have not read the others in the series, but had no trouble getting into this story so it’s not absolutely necessary to have read them in order—but it would probably help with knowing who’s who and where they fit into the story.

In the series, Pamela Paterson is the sleuth. She has joined the Knit and Nibble gang who enjoy crafting their projects as well as making goodies to share. She works at home for a “fiber” related magazine—which figures into her solving the murder. In this one, Pamela’s daughter Penny is home from college for the Christmas break and, while on a hike, discovers the body of one of the knitters’ friends. There are the usual suspects and an interesting twist at the end that I didn’t see coming. I also love the idea Pamela came up with in order to trap the killer. That was fun (not giving away secrets!).

Things I liked: the twist at the end. The characters were also interesting. And all the references to holiday music set the stage well.

Things I didn’t like: The author tends to go on for much too long with “filler” – describing every step in great detail of how the character is baking something, the plates (and colors) being used and more. There was so much of this that had absolutely nothing to do with the mystery. I found myself skipping entire pages of this filler. It really turned me off of the entire story, which was a shame because I think it could have been really enjoyable except for that.

Recommendation: If you’re already reading the series, pick this one up. The mystery part of the story is really good. It’s all the filler that drags it down into the three-sparkler level.

Silent Knit, Deadly Knit by Peggy Ehrhart is the fourth book in the cozy A Knit & Nibble Mystery series. Each book of the series contains it’s own mystery that will be solved so they can be read as a standalone or in any order one chooses. However, those that follow from the beginning will see the full character development that carries over from book to book.

The main character of the Knit & Nibble series is Pamela Paterson who is on the older side for a cozy protagonist. Pamela found herself with an empty nest when her daughter headed off to college so she joined the Knit and Nibble knitting group. The group not only spends time together crafting their favorite projects but also cooks up some yummy treats as the name suggests.

Pamela and her best friend and fellow knitter, Bettina, first became involved in what has become a habit for them in solving murders when a body was found at Pamela’s home. This time around however Pamela wasn’t the one tripping over yet another body but instead when her daughter Penny comes home from college for a visit Penny finds the most current victim in town, Millicent Farthingale.

I have followed the Knit & Nibble series from the beginning as this one has an endearing quality to me reminding me of my own knitting grandmother. I wish I could score this series higher than I do but I feel a 3 1/2 is being nice simply for the sentimental value for this latest installment. The characters are great, quirky and fun, however my one complaint since the beginning has been the author tends to be overly descriptive making a lot feel like filler and lacking on depth where it’s needed (mystery). I don’t need a step by step with every visit into the kitchen from each ingredient to the color and style of the dishes. I’d just personally like those extra pages worth of description be more adventures for Pamela and Bettina. Hopefully book 5 will pull back on that again.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

This is a pleasant book to read for a holiday themed story with lots of great sounding foods, shopping and parties to get in the spirit. Pamela Paterson is a knitter who makes sweaters and garments for herself and her daughter, Penny, along with working for a fiber magazine. Pamela and her best friend and neighbor Bettina are members of a group of knitters who get together every week to knit and have refreshments in different homes. They call their group, Knit & Nibble. Pamela, Bettina and her husband Wifred are busy icing Christmas cookies for the next meeting when Penny, home from college, calls Bettina's house frantic after finding a body in a nearby nature preserve. The body is that of a friend, Millicent, who owns a local craft shop. Millicent was a wealthy woman who has recently married so her new, younger husband, Pierre, is suspected of her murder as are a few others. Pamela and Bettina set out to find out who killed their friend while spending time knitting, baking, cooking and shopping. Pamela also has some work to do for the magazine as well.
I would have liked to see more time time spent on solving the murder mystery instead of so much time spent talking about daily activities and detailed discussion of recipes, baking and cooking. There is plenty to read about parties, Christmas carols, time spent with family and friends. I was very surprised to see who the killer turned out to be. I never suspected the person.
I received a complimentary ARC from Kensington Books through NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are mine only.

Its a comforting mystery story is set in Arborville, New Jersey, there is this engaging knitting club which organises a sitting of a knitting hobby and also chat about the events of the society. Pamela and Bridget are the prime members of this club. This is a normal town like anyother with normal ongoings until Pamela's daughter returns to the town for summers and finds a dead body while doing her chores. And the whole town grows dark with suspicion and blame. But instead of a chilling background, the background is quite comfortable as if a bunch of grandmas are trying to solve the mystery.