Deadly Arrangements at the Garden Club
A Cozy Mystery

About this book:

Fern Hastings knows more about soil pH than police procedure, but when the Shady Creek Garden Club's most tyrannical member turns up dead in the potting shed—impaled with her own pruning shears—Fern's horticultural expertise makes her the only one who spots the clues the sheriff misses. The prime suspect? Caleb Reynolds: infuriatingly handsome landscape contractor, Fern's longtime rival, and the only man in town with both motive and a monogrammed pocket knife planted at the scene.

Caleb swears he's being framed, but with his truck fleeing the grounds and his aunt's threats to ruin him still echoing in the conservatory, the evidence is damning. As a storm traps the town's most competitive gardeners on the Historical Society grounds, Fern realizes the killer used Delilah's precious Black Emperor dahlias as bait—and the murder weapon came from inside the club's own tool roll. To save Caleb and her grandmother's nursery contract, Fern must dig through decades of buried grudges, sabotaged exhibits, and secrets composted deep beneath Shady Creek's manicured lawns.

From the author of *Deadly Arrangements at the Garden Club* comes a cozy mystery where the red herrings are as thick as the mulch, the romantic tension burns hotter than a July greenhouse, and every chapter title blooms with wit. Perfect for readers who like their mysteries rooted in small-town charm, botanical detail, and a heroine who knows that the best way to catch a killer is to think like a gardener: follow the disturbed soil, and you'll find the truth.