In this Besty Devonshire is almost absent, we instead follow the quest for truth of Lucille who's looking for a long lost family, Jan who's trying to figure out how not to get arrested for the murder of her grand aunt who died from a needle punched inside her skull. It was a nice plot, with colourful characters but they are not why I read this series set in Minnesota, I read to see Besty sleuth and figure out the culprit. I was a little disappointed in that regard but the plot is solid and interesting. But the sock knitting class was funny.