by Nancy Warren (Hoopla Audiobooks only)
Lucy Swift has inherited her beloved grandmother’s knitting shop in Oxford, England. As a child she would travel from the US to spend her summers there as her parents are world-famous archaeologists and spent their time at various digs around the world. Now trying to get the shop in order, she learns that Grandma is now a vampire! And she lives in the basement with a group of vampires who come out at night to knit in her shop.
This is a fun, cozy mystery series
set in contemporary England. You meet the other town folk as well who move in
and out of the stories. The library offers all 14 books in this series (the
latest came out in 2022), as well as the prequel short story and one short
story written for a holiday anthology. In the first three books you are mostly
introduced to the vamps who are from various time periods in England and there
is a mystery in every book. The vampires range from a snarky teen who only
wears black to a 500-year-old landed, educated gentleman to a former silent
screen star. I thought the series especially picked up at book four. A member
of the library’s Just Desserts mystery book group had suggested this series to
the group so I gave this a try and thoroughly enjoy the characters and stories.
Sarah Zimmerman is the narrator and does an excellent job of voicing each
character.
The library offers this series only
on Hoopla audio. I recommend you search for “vampire knitting club boxed set.”
You’ll get three books per set and will be able to listen to the first nine
books in the series while using only three of your four monthly Hoopla
downloads. After that, search by title. There is also an off-shoot series,
Vampire Knitting Club: Cornwall.
(If you enjoy this, you may also
wish to try the Aunt Dimity by Nancy Atherton.)
( official Nancy Warren
web site )
Recommended
by Charlotte M.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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