BOBBINS AND BODIES Book Review

Bobbins and Bodies¹ (book 2 in Stitches in Crime Series) by ACF Bookens, ebook, 200 pages

Synopsis from GoodReads: All she wanted from the old farmhouse was the gorgeous mantel, not a dead body. Paisley Sutton always expects the unexpected when she goes into a house to salvage the architectural prizes before its torn down. She even knows she might encounter a rodent or two. But she really isn’t expecting to find a dead body, not again. And when it turns out the young man she found slumped in the house’s basement was killed, Paisley discovers that it’s not only the house that was abandoned. Will her research trigger the decades-old fears that someone hoped to bury in the rubble?

BOOK REVIEW: I really enjoyed book 1 in this series which I'll tag below in related posts. I also really love when I get to read about the characters having hobbies like I do. I love to cross stitch and crochet...I'm not super fond of knitting but I enjoy that from time to time as well and I love that they throw in some of the terminology for the crafts. In this case, Mika starts to say how she learned a new method of casting on (for knitting) but because Paisley doesn't knit she doesn't explain and I'm left wondering what she learned and do I know it!

There is so much more to this story than just finding a body in an abandoned house that left me having to put it down and come back to it more so because of my own past of being controlled (I will not go any deeper than that because I won't give anything away) but I will say that there are twists and turns that I didn't see coming and it made the book that much more enjoyable.

This was a 4.75 star read for me. It has everything that I love in good mystery. It has a murder, suspense, scenes that make me tense and ones that give me goose bumps. The synopsis feels a bit misleading. Yes she finds another body and you would think that would be the main focus like in book 1 but that focus shifts to what would have been the secondary mystery that becomes the focal point with solving the murder as the secondary focus. That's really the only reason I'm knocking it down from 5 stars but I will be rating it 5 stars since you can't adjust on the sites I leave reviews on. Can't wait to dive into book 3...whenever that may be!

4.75/5 Stars

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