ONE FOR THE HOOKS

Molly Pink and the Tarzana Hookers just can’t quit investigating murders.

Molly, assistant manager at a bookstore that includes a yarn area, has a complicated love life. Though she’s still not over Detective Barry Greenberg, she’s dating lawyer Mason Fields. Her life goes downhill fast when her son, Peter, and his supercilious, pregnant girlfriend move in after the failure of a television deal leaves them with nowhere to live. Meanwhile, real estate agent Sloan Renner is helping Miami Wintergarten clean out an inherited house she plans to set up as a short-term rental, much to the fury of her neighbors, who wish she’d sell the place or give up on renting it. Among the house’s contents are many boxes of yarn, mostly one-of-a-kind skeins that are too small to make anything with. Soon after Molly has a brainstorm—mix them in a kit to make unusual scarves that will justify their reduced price—Sloan succumbs to a different kind of brainstorm when she’s attacked by a drone that dumps a bag of rotting seafood on her, killing her. Barry, whose controlling ways caused their breakup, asks Molly to chat up the neighbors while refusing the ever curious amateur sleuth any information. When Mason suddenly pops the question, Molly and her bestie must ponder her future while they work to catch a killer.

Plenty for series fans to enjoy as newbies jump into this pleasant yarn-centric mystery.