Review: Interesting story but ...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2013
The story itself is entertaining - a woman hiding from her past moves to a small New Hampshire town to start over and opens a "tangling" studio, and people start dropping dead or getting beat up.  Typical cozy."Tangling" is the use of repetitive forms to create art.  Information about tangling is woven throught the plot, and a piece of tangled art plays a big part in the murders.  (It's better covered in the Joanna Campbell Slan/Kiki Lowenstein books.)I gave only three stars, however because the athor needs to find another word to use besides "SMIRKED", which she used approximately 25 times. Possibly more, I lost count. This repetitive use of the word diminished my pleasure in reading, and made me want to whomp the author upside the head with a thesaurus. Aside from that, I might have given the book four stars - quick read, likeable characters, interesting story, nice touch of romance, good treadmill book.