MURDER IN THE FLOWER GARDEN: A 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery

A summer garden party. A celebrated judge found dead among the prize dahlias. And a truth buried deeper than any root.Ashbury Hall has never looked more beautiful. The bunting is up, the roses are in full flush, and Lady Catherine Ashbury has spent two years cultivating the most extraordinary dahlia border in Wiltshire. Her annual Garden Fête promises to be the finest yet - until the morning everything changes.Renowned botanical judge Sir Edmund Hartley is discovered among Catherine's dahlias at dawn, dead and surrounded by a single overturned teacup. The Wiltshire constabulary wastes no time: Tom Hatch, Catherine's beloved head groundskeeper, had motive, no alibi, and twenty years of intimate knowledge of the very plants that may have killed the man.Catherine knows Tom is innocent. She also knows - because she notices most things - that someone asked about Sir Edmund's private evening tea arrangements the very afternoon he arrived. That a pair of borrowed garden gloves carry a smell she recognises from her own greenhouse work. That the competition tent was visited, alone, twenty minutes after it should have been empty.What Catherine does not yet know is that she is not the only one who has been watching carefully. And that the truth she is unravelling stretches back six years, across a ruined business, a false report, and a man who believed that capable women had nothing they could act on.Murder in the Flower Garden is a richly atmospheric 1920s cozy mystery set in the golden English countryside, where the gardens are magnificent, the secrets run deep, and nothing in a flower bed is ever quite as innocent as it looks.Perfect for readers who enjoy classic cozy mysteries, charming village settings, and clever fair-play puzzles.The Lady Catherine Ashbury Murder Mystery series can be read in any order. Each book is a complete, satisfying mystery.If you love a beautifully observed historical mystery with real heart, a sharp amateur sleuth, and a garden you'll want to walk through yourself - this book was grown for you.

Pagina's: 480, Paperback, Independently published