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"A lively ensemble cast led by Molly Pink, assistant manager of Shedd & Royal Books in Tarzana, Calif. lifts Hechtman's entertaining, well-paced 13th Crochet mystery."
- Publisher's Weekly

"Hechtman's lucky 13th is a character-driven cozy whose mystery is solid enough to raise it above the average."
- Kirkus

The Tarzana Hookers crochet club is ready for its close-up! But Molly Pink may be getting too close to a case that will land her on the cutting-room floor.

Molly Pink's excitement level is off the hook: The Craftee Channel's new cable talk show &qupt;Creating with Crochet" has scheduled an upcoming taping at the bookstore. While she's there, TV host Rory Graham is to work with the Tarzana Hookers on a Make and Take bracelet project to draw bookstore customers to the yarn section. It's a win-win -- or so it "seams".




The Tarzana Hookers crochet club could come apart at the seams when thwarted ambition, shady ethics, and a puzzling murder converge. By hook or crook, Molly will clear her name in On the Hook, Betty Hechtman's irresistible twelfth Crochet Mystery.




Molly Pink can't help seeing a pattern of trouble when she sees a couple struggling in a neighboring yard and later spies what looks like a body on the ground. She wastes no time calling in her ex, homicide detective Barry Greenberg. But when he finds nothing amiss, it's up to her to unravel the evidence and prove someone in Tarzana is tangled up in murder.




Molly and the Tarzana Hookers are busy getting ready to start Yarn University at the bookstore and they decide to hold a practice class at crocheter CeeCee's mansion. But before the lesson begins, Molly and the gang stumble upon a dead body in the apartment above CeeCee's garage.



Molly Pink and her pals, the Tarzana Hookers, are ready to bring the craft of crochet to the masses. But when one of their members finds herself the prime suspect in a murder, the Hookers are going to have to switch their focus and find the real killer.




When Molly is invited to a major society wedding, she expects some wedding drama. Though she never anticipated this much trouble. The bride is the daughter of Molly's close friend Mason - who has been planning this wedding for a long time. But at the reception, things go amiss when the wealthy groom ends up dancing with the grim reaper.



In the seventh book, a television crew has come to Tarzana to film L.A. 911. When the one of the Tarzana Hookers turns up dead and the TV show set turns into a crime scene, Molly Pink and the rest of her crochet crew get wound up in the murder. With no solid leads, Molly decides to conduct her own investigation and she has to quickly stitch together the clues to catch the killer before someone else dials 911.








In their sixth adventure, Molly Pink and her crochet group, the Tarzana Hookers, are thrilled when one of their own gets a shot at the spotlight. But when a talk show set becomes a crime scene, Molly realizes that life in the entertainment biz can be deadly...



Molly Pink has so much going on this holiday season, it's hard to find time to crochet as much as a snowflake. The bookstore where she works is adding a yarn department and planning a huge launch party where the mysterious author of a popular series will reveal his or her true identity. But when Molly's neighbor turns up missing, she' can't resist adding sleuthing to her to-do list and gets hooked on unraveling another mystery.

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Molly Pink and the Tarzana Hookers are at it again in the fourth crochet mystery. This time they're at a creative retreat on the Monterey Peninsula. Amid crochet and campfires, one of the instructors turns up dead and Molly and her cohorts are left to untangle this tightly twisted yarn.



In the third crochet mystery, Molly Pink and the Tarzana Hookers find a mysterious package containing a confusing crochet piece. They're left wondering if its just handiwork or a code of clues waiting to be unraveled.



The second in the crochet series finds Molly Pink admitting she's a yarnaholic. However, the real problem on her hands these days is a murder with a unique weave that casts suspicion on one of the Tarzana Hookers.



In the series opener, Molly Pink is about to discover the joys of crochet. It's a relaxing escape from her hectic life as a bookstore event manager...and from the stress of being the latest murder suspect in Tarzana, California.



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