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The Pressed Flower Poisonings: A Cozy Small Town Mystery
When Lila Hart hosts a botanical workshop at Mockingbird Books, she expects an afternoon of peaceful crafting and community education. Instead, she discovers that someone has been using pressed flower collections to deliver deadly toxins to elderly residents who possess valuable traditional botanical knowledge.
As participants begin collapsing from mysterious plant poisoning, Lila teams up with Sheriff Cooper Reid to uncover a chilling conspiracy. A rogue scientist has been systematically targeting traditional knowledge holders throughout coastal Maine, murdering them to steal their botanical wisdom for pharmaceutical patents.
With help from maritime heritage specialist Diana Blackwood and librarian Emily Chen, Lila must decode her grandmother's hidden journals to find the antidote that could save the victims. But Dr. Nathan Wells isn't finished—he's prepared to contaminate the entire town's water supply rather than let his crimes be exposed.
When Wells escalates to chemical warfare and threatens the hospital where the survivors are being treated, Lila discovers that her grandmother's traditional plant knowledge may be the only weapon capable of stopping a killer who's turned botanical beauty into instruments of death.
Racing against time and a poisoner who grows more desperate with each failed attempt, Lila must protect her community's elderly wisdom keepers while preserving the traditional knowledge that Wells will kill to possess.
Perfect for fans of Ellery Adams, Jenn McKinlay, and Emily Brewster, this 13th installment in the Bookmarked Bay Mystery series combines botanical intrigue, community solidarity, and the deadly consequences of exploiting traditional wisdom.
As participants begin collapsing from mysterious plant poisoning, Lila teams up with Sheriff Cooper Reid to uncover a chilling conspiracy. A rogue scientist has been systematically targeting traditional knowledge holders throughout coastal Maine, murdering them to steal their botanical wisdom for pharmaceutical patents.
With help from maritime heritage specialist Diana Blackwood and librarian Emily Chen, Lila must decode her grandmother's hidden journals to find the antidote that could save the victims. But Dr. Nathan Wells isn't finished—he's prepared to contaminate the entire town's water supply rather than let his crimes be exposed.
When Wells escalates to chemical warfare and threatens the hospital where the survivors are being treated, Lila discovers that her grandmother's traditional plant knowledge may be the only weapon capable of stopping a killer who's turned botanical beauty into instruments of death.
Racing against time and a poisoner who grows more desperate with each failed attempt, Lila must protect her community's elderly wisdom keepers while preserving the traditional knowledge that Wells will kill to possess.
Perfect for fans of Ellery Adams, Jenn McKinlay, and Emily Brewster, this 13th installment in the Bookmarked Bay Mystery series combines botanical intrigue, community solidarity, and the deadly consequences of exploiting traditional wisdom.
118 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 5, 2025
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