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The Swifts #3
The Swifts: A Garden of Vipers
The Swifts take Manhattan in the hilarious, third installment of Beth Lincoln’s quick-witted bestselling mystery series.
After catching a murderer at the family reunion and solving a century-old art caper, the Swift children have built a reputation as expert sleuths. But when cousin Atrocious needs help to solve a murder in New York City, Shenanigan is wary until she finds out the victim is connected to their old friend Daisy DeMille and her family's flower empire. Trapped by a snowstorm in the DeMille's high-rise greenhouse headquarters, Shenanigan will have to weed out the poisoner hiding among the plants.
For their new adventure, Shenanigan and the beloved Swifts are joined by another eccentric, and fabulously fatal, family—the American DeMilles, including flamboyant heir-apparent Dandelion, ambitious brother Basil, and tenacious siblings Moss and Delphinium. The Swifts are back with their trademark witty wordplay, murder mysteries, and, of course, shenanigans.
After catching a murderer at the family reunion and solving a century-old art caper, the Swift children have built a reputation as expert sleuths. But when cousin Atrocious needs help to solve a murder in New York City, Shenanigan is wary until she finds out the victim is connected to their old friend Daisy DeMille and her family's flower empire. Trapped by a snowstorm in the DeMille's high-rise greenhouse headquarters, Shenanigan will have to weed out the poisoner hiding among the plants.
For their new adventure, Shenanigan and the beloved Swifts are joined by another eccentric, and fabulously fatal, family—the American DeMilles, including flamboyant heir-apparent Dandelion, ambitious brother Basil, and tenacious siblings Moss and Delphinium. The Swifts are back with their trademark witty wordplay, murder mysteries, and, of course, shenanigans.
396 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 22, 2026
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AHHHH!!! D: :D Here's Beth Lincoln's "The Swifts: A Garden of Vipers."
["In the depths of winter, Shenanigan Swift and her family are summoned to America, where Daisy’s brother, Dandelion DeMille, is in danger.
Racing to DeMille family home – a 72-storey greenhouse in the heart of New York City – Shenanigan is too late to stop a murder. But it’s Dandelion’s Uncle Charlie who has fallen victim to a mystery assassin.
As a snowstorm rages outside, Shenanigan, Felicity, Phenomena and Erf must uncover both motive and means. But when every room is packed with poisonous plants and deadly creatures, how will they ever uncover what really happened in The Greenhouse?"]
Another family with perfectly fitting, if not too-on-the-nose names. I'm still obsessed. It shouldn't work. In any other book, calling the family chef Cook, would be too cliched and immediately nixed. But in this world, where a florist family in which every member is named after flora? It's perfection!
And the characterization itself! You never know who to trust! You hate this person, and they turn out to be good; you love this person, and they hurt you; you don’t know about this person, and they surprise you in the best of ways. It’s lovely and skilled and frustrating as hell.
Glad to know that Shenanigan is still having her existential crisis in book three. Nothing like not knowing who you are and what you’re meant to do being sooo relatable across so many generations.
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["In the depths of winter, Shenanigan Swift and her family are summoned to America, where Daisy’s brother, Dandelion DeMille, is in danger.
Racing to DeMille family home – a 72-storey greenhouse in the heart of New York City – Shenanigan is too late to stop a murder. But it’s Dandelion’s Uncle Charlie who has fallen victim to a mystery assassin.
As a snowstorm rages outside, Shenanigan, Felicity, Phenomena and Erf must uncover both motive and means. But when every room is packed with poisonous plants and deadly creatures, how will they ever uncover what really happened in The Greenhouse?"]
Another family with perfectly fitting, if not too-on-the-nose names. I'm still obsessed. It shouldn't work. In any other book, calling the family chef Cook, would be too cliched and immediately nixed. But in this world, where a florist family in which every member is named after flora? It's perfection!
And the characterization itself! You never know who to trust! You hate this person, and they turn out to be good; you love this person, and they hurt you; you don’t know about this person, and they surprise you in the best of ways. It’s lovely and skilled and frustrating as hell.
Glad to know that Shenanigan is still having her existential crisis in book three. Nothing like not knowing who you are and what you’re meant to do being sooo relatable across so many generations.
#theswifts #theswiftstheseries #theswiftsadictionaryofscoundrels #adictionaryofscoundrels #theswiftsagalleryofrogues #agalleryofrogues #theswiftsagardenofvipers #agardenofvipers #bethlincoln #thriller #yathriller #murdermystery #yamurdermystery #books #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks
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