Reference librarian Megan Clark has a passion for fictional crime—but when she and her fellow book group members go from reading mysteries to solving them, they discover that real-life crime is more complex than the most puzzling whodunit... Tangled up in murder... Excited about her latest writing assignment, Megan persuades the Murder by the Yard book group to accompany her on her research. Few of the bibliophiles have ever heard of string figures—a pastime familiar to all children who've configured the cat's cradle—but there's plenty of intrigue to satisfy the curious mystery lovers. A valuable, unpublished manuscript about the beloved hobby is missing—and its owner found dead. Now Megan and the rest of the group are out to find the culprit... before someone else comes to the end of their rope.