In Sea Harbor the holidays mean cozy fires, festive carols, and soft skeins of yarn waiting to become hats and sweaters and scarves. And this year Izzy and the other Seaside Knitters are also knitting tiny ornaments to decorate a tree for the first annual tree-trimming contest.
Their holiday cheer is multiplied when Izzy's younger brother, Charlie Chambers, unexpectedly arrives to volunteer at a local clinic. He brings with him outspoken hitchhiker Amber Hanson, who is returning to Sea Harbor to claim an inheritance. She quickly reacquaints herself with the area–and forms an unlikely friendship with Charlie. But their bond is shattered when her body is found beneath the undecorated trees on the Harbor Green.
With Charlie a suspect in the murder, Izzy and her fellow knitters step in to uncover the truth. It's only by peeling away long-buried secrets that they can hope to restore joy to the season, and enjoy the shining lights of the newly decorated trees.
Another brilliant offering from Sally Goldenbaum! In this one we have the four friends astounded when Izzy's younger brother (who has been incommunicado on and off for about 10 years) arrives to take up a post at the local free clinic, he hasn't arrived alone though, he has with him a hitchhiker who has arrived to hear the reading of her Grandmother's will, Amber is not expecting much and so she (and her relatives) are stunned when she is given a part share of the prosperous plant nursery business. Unfortunately she doesn't get to enjoy it for long as within a week she is found dead among the pine trees, planted by the nursery to be an ongoing Christmas celebration. Now Charlie Chambers is in the spotlight as murderer #1, and all the seaside knitters have to work with is their instinct that says Izzy's brother is innocent and so the true murderer is still walking amongst them.
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