The Vampire Knitting Club is a paranormal cozy ‘murder’ mystery series by Nancy Warren, it focuses on our main character Lucy who had travelled from Egypt where she was with her parents to visit her grandmother in Oxford, England, only to discover that her grandmother has died. The only issue that Lucy has with that – because her parents are archaeologists and therefore impossible to contact as they were working while out in Egypt – is that she has seen her grandmother when she was arriving to her shop/flat.
It’s a very lose murder mystery with vampire added in to give it some kind of new angle to the popular genre.
While the plot itself was interesting, I liked the added vampires who are trying to help Lucy take on her grandmother’s business – the wool shop – there were moments when it felt like the author just wanted to add more to the plot, like they weren’t happy with how basic it was, that it needed some more depth.
So we learn something else about Lucy and her grandmother that… it really didn’t have to be in there, it didn’t need to be part of it at all, or maybe it could have been left to book to, after the vampires are more established.
It’s a fun book, light hearted and easy enough to read, there isn’t any actual romance if you are looking for that kind of murder mystery, but I suspect that will be in later books.
Over all? This is an all right book, but it won’t be one that I would want to continue to read the rest of the series.
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