Crafts and Life

Pamela is ready to kick back and relax after a busy day selling stuffed aardvarks to benefit Arborville High School’s sports program at the annual town festival. But just as she’s packing up, she makes a terrible discovery—someone’s stashed a body under the Knit and Nibble’s table. The victim is Randall Jefferson, a decidedly unpopular history teacher after his recent op-ed criticizing the school’s sports program. But the primary suspect has an alibi, and the only clue is a stuffed aardvark found on the victim’s chest . . . Now the Knit and Nibblers must unravel the case quickly—before a crafty killer repeats a deadly pattern.

The Knit and Nibble team took a break from their usual knits to make mascots of the High School team (the aardvarks) to sell to raise funds for the sports programme, when Pamela and Bettina are counting up the cash they discover they are $40 short, meaning that two of the aardvarks appear to have been stolen, the Knit and Nibblers are somewhat resigned thinking that if someone wanted a mascot so badly but couldn't afford the $20 then so be it.  Unfortunately when they are dismantling the stall they discover one of the aardvarks, unfortunate as he is sitting on the very dead body of a local history teacher! The police seem to think they know who did the deed, only to discover that they couldn't – now people are handing in the Killer Aardvarks (luckily NOT demanding their money back as it has already been handed to the High School!) and then there is another corpse with the other missing aardvark on it.  Now Pamela and Bettina need to figure out who is the murderer so they can get back to Arborville being safe.