Digging Up Secrets

Victorian Mansion Flower Shop Mysteries #5

by Sandra Orchard

After a decades-old skeleton is found in her shop’s backyard, Kaylee Bleu digs up all the dirt she can find on the deceased.

A busted well pump causes major trouble at Kaylee Bleu’s flower shop, The Flower Patch, but that seems like no big deal when her plumber discovers a fractured skull in the Victorian mansion’s backyard. The remains belong to Danny Lane, a troubled teenager accused of killing a high-school girl in a boating accident thirty-five years ago. The consensus around Turtle Cove was that the boy fled town shortly after the accident, but Kaylee thinks the holes in that story are as big as the grave-size pit dug up around her well pump.

Unfortunately, somebody on Orcas Island wants Kaylee to leave the past buried. At first, she refuses to be intimidated by menacing messages and frightful pranks. But when suspicious accidents begin to befall witnesses close to the cold case, Kaylee's seeds of doubt blossom into dread. She must decide how deep she's willing to dig to determine if Danny's death was an accident ... or murder.

This clever whodunit from Annie’s Victorian Mansion Flower Shop Mysteries series is a must-read for fans of cozy mysteries, gardening, and female friendships.

214 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2018

About the author

Sandra leaps off the garden trails of her herbal-researcher-turned-amateur-sleuth (Port Aster Secrets) series, to the museum corridors of her plucky FBI art crime agent Serena Jones, in A Fool and His Monet.

When not plotting crimes, Sandra plays make-believe with her grandchildren or hikes with her hubby along the escarpment, near their home in Niagara, Canada.

Her novels have garnered numerous awards, including the National Readers' Choice Award, a Holt Medallion Award of Merit, an RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award, the Daphne DuMaurier Award of Excellence and five national Canadian Awards.

Learn more about Sandra’s books and fun bonus features at www.sandraorchard.com

Reviews

[Juli Lindenmayer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Don't expect these reviews to be very different! XD

Better than what I've been reading in this series. I think it helps that there are so many different authors, that you really can have some better reads throughout. However, still really rough, there are times when I feel so cringey/angry that I have to move forward - it is a bodily response

I know I'm giving it crap, but it really does make me happy to read stuff my mom did. I just can be objective when writing is really poor, too!

On to the next one ~

[Ashlyn Fowler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved this book! Told my family about it after the first two chapters. Had to reread it over ALOUD so we all could enjoy. This was thoroughly an intriguing, interesting and moving book. We kept guessing the whole time and it changed so much. Great book and look forward to the series!

[Marcy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was given to me by my aunt recently, during a visit. It was a fun easy read, mystery.