When a builder has a suspicious accident at a Stillorgan construction site, Maeve Lynch agrees to ask a few quiet questions as a favour to a friend. It should be straightforward. It really should not end with her holding a student card that has no business being where she found it. Returning it seems like the obvious next step, until she finds out who it belongs to. And what happened to him. And why nobody at the time seemed particularly interested in asking. With Nidge on the lead, Michelle and Aisling on speed dial, and Liam from the Gardaí offering just enough help to make her nervous, Maeve is about to discover that some patterns are designed to hide exactly what's underneath. Karl is on his way home. Whether he'll arrive before things get complicated is another question entirely. Motifs and Malice is the fourth book in the Maeve Lynch Knitting Mystery series, warm, witty, and set in the heart of Dublin, where a talent for untangling yarn turns out to be very useful indeed.