D is Dishcloths and "C" is Corpse

The knitting is a handful of cheerfully colorful dishcloths and the novel is "C" is for Corpse by Sue Grafton.

I love to knit dishcloths, but only in spurts.  I've been in the mood recently, though, and decided to combine a bunch of the colors.  I had a blast!  

I didn't even mind weaving in all of those ends.  Much. 

I might have minded a little with this one.  It was still worth it, though.

I made these because I wanted to use up some yarn, play with colors, and give out dishcloths as gifts. I love giving dishcloths as gifts.  I'm lucky to have a lot of people in my life who get excited when I pull dishcloths out of my bag and start passing them out like I'm some kind of dishcloth-distributing fairy godmother.  

I cast on 35 to 40 stitches and typically knit until the project looked as long as it was wide (sometimes I miscalculated).  

And that's it!  Sometimes that's all I need.  On to the novel!

This picks up about 6 weeks after "B" is for Burglar.  Private investigator Kinsey Milhone is recovering from getting shot and going through her physical therapy regimen at the gym when she meets Bobby Callahan, a rich kid severely injured in a car accident nearly a year earlier.  He's convinced that someone was trying to kill him, but he can't remember why.  He hires Kinsey to investigate.  She meets his rich family, or at least his rich mom and her rich friends.  Then he has another car accident and dies.  Now Kinsey is really investigating.

She also snoops on landlord and BFF Henry's new girlfriend, Lila.  Henry of the fresh bread and spindly legs is apparently an easy mark for terrible women.  This one commits fraud, steals some of Henry's savings, yells at Kinsey, and is terrible to everyone around her.  But her worst crime is probably talking in a fake baby voice.  Just kidding, it's the massive theft.  But we do hate her because she tries to come between Henry and Kinsey.

Don't worry, Kinsey steals back Henry's cash before calling the cops.  Kinsey and some neighborhood ladies get pretty madcap in this one, and I love it.  

Other things that happen: Kinsey files invoices to calm her nerves.  She opens the doors to the balcony to air out her office.  She sees Jonah and thinks he's great (he is not!).  She drinks cheap white wine from a jug so sour that it makes her mouth pucker--twice.  She changes clothes in her messy car.  She jogs.

She also catches the bad guy after interviewing a cast of colorful characters--Bobby's troubled stepsister, a married woman he had an affair with who has a troubled past, and a friend of Bobby's who has Crohn's disease and really loves cats.  The process was exciting, but the reveal was a little underwhelming--maybe because I always get confused when blackmailing has something to do with multiple deaths.  But this was a great read that I devoured the way Kinsey devours quarter pounders--which I can't remember if she did in this book!  There were at least 2 weird sandwiches, though.