Lucy Swift is still smarting from a nasty breakup with her toad of a boyfriend. She is going to Oxford to visit her grandmother who owns a knitting shop in the historic part of town. However, when she arrives she finds the shop boarded up. Neighbors tell her that her grandmother had passed away three weeks before. Lucy is devastated, and then overwhelmed when she finds out that she has inherited the knitting shop. Things get even more complicated when Lucy starts meeting strange people with ageless looks and cold hands who turn out to be the local vampires. Lucy learns that her Grandmother has become a vampire, too, and though undead, seems almost like she was in life. It turns out that her Grandmother was murdered and Lucy's life is also at risk unless she can discover who the murder is and what he was after.
This book was recommended to me by one of my young adult patrons at the library. It is relatively short and a very fun to read. Even though Lucy is 27, this book is appropriate for the 14-18 crowd and will appeal to teens who liked Twilight. This is more of a mystery than a romance, but there is a rather cute, single, police officer that keeps showing up at just the right time. The mystery elements are pretty good, though it wasn't super hard to guess the culprit. Though the magic system is a bit fuzzy, there is a host of charming characters and a fair dose of humor. I just looked it up and it is the first in a series. I just put the second on hold. (260 p. 2018)
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