A Cultivated Crime

Victorian Mansion Flower Shop Mysteries #12

by Grace Marcello

Kaylee Bleu anticipates a quiet Monday morning at her shop, The Flower Patch, in Turtle Cove, Washington. But it's the death knell for her relaxing plans when local coroner Giles Akin bursts through the door in a panic. He's hosting a dinner to kick off a convention for his fellow funeral directors, and he forgot the flowers. Now Kaylee has only a few hours to put together the floral arrangements.

Kaylee finishes the project in the nick of time, and she breathes a sigh of relief. But her relief soon turns to shock when she drops off the flowers and discovers a dead body.

Mitchum Landsdowne's death is ruled a homicide, and Kaylee and her friends in the Petal Pushers garden club undertake their own investigation. They learn that not all the bereaved hope Mitchum rests in peace. He was an ambitious funeral director, but his obituary fails to mention that his ruthless actions infuriated some of his colleagues and even his own son. Did one of them plot the ultimate revenge?

Kaylee and her friends must narrow down the long list of suspects. Will they locate the murderer before someone else is six feet under?

203 pages, Unknown Binding

Reviews

[Sharon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Anyone with experience in a florist shop would know that you would NEVER use daylilies (Hemerocallis as the author rightly noted) in a floral arrangement that you were sending out professionally. Everyone expects florists arrangement to last for several days and an author writing about a flower shop should know that a daylily bloom last for ONE day--no more. Would make an arrangement look terrible on day two. That was. just the beginning of my problems with the book, but enough to make me feel like everything else was poorly done.

[Lisa Stanglin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love these books associated with Annie’s fiction. They have great feel good endings with a little mystery and great friendships tied in.