MURDER AT WRENWOOD GARDEN: A 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery

The roses were at their most beautiful the night someone used them as a last view.The Wrenwood Summer Bloom Exhibition is the social event of the year - twenty guests, cordial in crystal glasses, and the estate's formal garden at its absolute peak. For Lady Charlotte Wrenwood, curator of the beloved Wrenwood Cottage Herbarium, it should have been a perfect evening. It nearly was.But when her mentor and dear friend Edith Hartwell - the formidable, meticulous, irreplaceable head of the Wrenwood Horticultural Society - is found on the garden bench by the fountain the following dawn, Charlotte knows two things immediately. Edith had been poisoned. And the compound used came from Charlotte's own Herbarium.With a garden full of suspects, a Detective Inspector who'd strongly prefer she arrange flowers rather than ask questions, and her tabby cat Ptolemy turning his amber gaze on everyone who enters the Herbarium, Charlotte must work through jealousies, stolen botanical research, hidden financial dealings, and thirty years of buried trust to find out who turned the most beautiful evening on the calendar into someone's last night.The suspects are all people she knows. The clues are all in plain sight. And the killer is someone she never once thought to look at - until now.In a world of beautiful gardens and complicated roots, the most dangerous secrets are the ones that grow in the dark.Murder at Wrenwood Garden is a warm, witty, and satisfying cozy mystery for readers who love clever amateur sleuths, English village charm, botanical detail, and a slow-burn romance that is - finally - beginning to bloom.If you love cozy mysteries with heart, community, and a cat who knows more than he lets on, Charlotte's garden is waiting. Come in.

Pagina's: 353, Paperback, Independently published