That is what my friend, Loretta, said she had just received from Amazon. She had told me that her Amazon order had come in, and I excitedly asked her what all she ordered. And one thing she mentioned that was in her ‘oh-so-fun-I-love-to-get-books-in-the-mail’ package, was a few Needlecraft Mysteries.

“Needlecraft Mysteries?!” I asked, “What the heck are those?”

And that is when she sent me to this Amazon page to check it out: A Murderous Yarn (Needlecraft Mysteries)

Now that’s pretty cool! (Of course, I had to ask her, “Oh, does the person get stabbed with a needle?” Ha!) Really, though, it is neat to have a whole series of books that caters to people who love to work with needles. And does Loretta ever like to work with needles! She is a ’stitching queen’ - she even runs a very active stitching website, complete with message board. You can keep up with what craftiness she’s up to by reading her Craft Blog. She talks about all things crafty there, with a heavy focus on needlecraft, and she even has free cross stitch patterns.

Getting back to the books, though - it is a whole series and I can’t even tell how many of them there are. It looks like a lot! And there is a big crowd of fans, as you can tell from the reviews. Loretta was told, though, that you don’t have to read them in order. So I will be interested to hear back from her how well she liked them.

I just love to learn about new books and the people who love them! It’s all so interesting! I wouldn’t call it new genres, necessarily, because these books would be in the mystery genre. But it divides up further than that, even - I wonder if you could say ’subculture’ in reference to such? You know, like the ‘Harry Potter subculture’.

This could be a whole new post, itself, I suppose - but, just wonder with me for a moment. What would we call the groups of people that like different types of books within one genre? I’m sure there are fantasy book lovers who don’t get into Harry Potter, for example. And I’m sure there are mystery book lovers that don’t like the Needlecraft Mystery books. So you have these sub-groups, and they are almost like a community, sometimes. I know with Harry Potter, it is like that - we went to a celebration of his birthday at a bookstore and it was very much like a community. And I’m sure when people are hanging out at the store until midnight, in full HP gear, they are feeling pretty much a part of the HP crowd!

Anyway, we could philosophize a lot about the different groups I’m sure, but, this post is really about my finding these Needlecraft Mysteries in the first place. And I just think they’re pretty neat!

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