Trimmed with Murder

Seaside Harbor is home of the fighting Cool Cods.

Just knowing that makes makes me think Trimmed With Murder will be a fun cozy mystery to curl up with on a cold winter’s night…or on the sunny beach and celebrate Christmas in July.

It all starts when Charlie picks Izzy up on the side of the road. Neither one of them wanted to be here, because we all know, in a small town there are no secrets.

Most of the characters are warm and giving…once you get to know them, but there are some with secrets to hide and will cross the line to keep them buried.

I feel bad for Charlie and wonder about the missing years in his life. Where has he been and why is he so different from the person they knew before?

And the murderer…

I know who I feel it show more could be, but there is also a deeper mystery to be solved…

The Knitting Club knows everyone and everything happening in town, so they figure they should be the ones to find the answers and put the town’s fears to rest, so they began to “walk the road.” I love when a group of small town ladies get it in their heads to investigate a murder. Some times it can be fun, other times…

I love stories located by the seaside. They lend an extra element to the story that makes me want to walk along the shore with this “tight knit” group of friends who care about their town and the people in it.

Trimmed With Murder by Sally Goldenbaum shows us that you can go home again.

Sally Goldenbaum has also included knitting instructions for a sailboat ornament and a recipe for pork tenderloin in Trimmed With Murder show less

Seaside Knitters. Books 10-11 by Goldenbaum_ Sally
Have read the other books by this author and have enjoyed not only the knitting part but mysteries surrounding how they solve a death in their seaside community.
Like knitting tips along the way. Like they have a family tree of characters at the very beginning.
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Trimmed with Murder
Christmas and Charlie has volunteered to help at the free clinic. He stopped to pick up Amber who has a relative in town. Neither has been back since they were young...
Story follows them and many others in the small community. Things with being small everybody knows everybody's business.
Love the pattern for the tree and also food recipe.

3.5 stars
My first cozy mystery book, and I really enjoyed it.
A little overwhelming because there are many characters in this little town. The cast of characters really helped, I had to refer to it even until the very end of the book. I guess I should have started with book #1, but it's Christmas and I don't want to wait to get started.

It's a great read, all the eating in the book made me hungry. Could have been a tad shorter, but the author wanted to keep us guessing...and it was just too obvious.

I enjoy this series of cozy mysteries. The characters seem like family, complete with minor imperfections, but full of generosity and love. The usual description of the landscape and weather fall sadly to the wayside. The killer's motive for revenge are feasible, but the killer displays little signs of unrest. Many of the town’s seasonal activities bring old-time traditions to mind. Goldenbaum introduces a new character, but I wonder if he will remain in the series. I adore the recipe and knitting patterns at the end of each book.

Trimmed With Murder: A Seaside Knitters Mystery, is a great book to read close to the holiday season, and winning a free copy from a Goodreads contest, makes it like receiving an early Christmas gift. The story is full of imagery, and the feel of small town living; yet at times a little wordy taking away some of the images that Sally Goldenbaum produces. There are also issues of confusion as to whom some of the characters are, due to many of them being introduced at the same time. This confusion spreads to some parts in the book in which major issues are passed by and never told of, or what happens, and the fact that the book switches from the characters to not, making it a little wordy by ways of whom is telling the story. Overall, show more this is a hard to put down book, that is well worth a read. show less

This was the first Sally Goldenbaum mystery I read. I'm not sure if all her books are this way, but the murder didn't occur until past page 100. I kept waiting for it which made reading the story distracting. I did like the characters though and the setting. I'm not sure if I will read any others or not. And it doesn't matter if you are a knitter or not as it doesn't detract from the story or anything.

Decently written. No cliches. The ending was rather sudden. They were putting the pieces together and then all of a sudden the murderer exposes themselves w/o the main characters doing anything.