Spring Fling Fatality: Death Among the Tulips

The tulips are blooming. The town is celebrating. And someone has planted murder in Maplebrook. When prize-winning gardener June Harlow is found dead in her own exhibition bed on the morning of Maplebrook's Spring Fling, bookseller Claire Bennett knows the death is no accident. The rain has washed away the footprints, the murder weapon has been cleaned and returned, and nearly everyone involved in the horticultural society had a reason to resent June. A rival gardener was publicly disqualified. June's niece stood to inherit her estate. And a polished developer had every reason to silence the woman determined to stop a river meadow from becoming a parking lot. As Claire digs through family debts, altered garden stakes, hidden land deals, and a missing conservation easement, she discovers the truth may have less to do with blue ribbons than with what people are willing to destroy for a fresh start. Meanwhile, Detective Nathan Hale asks Claire to stand beside him as more than the woman who finds the bodies. But before their future can take root, Claire must expose a killer determined to bury the evidence for good. Spring Fling Fatality is a warm, twisty small-town cozy mystery featuring a bookstore sleuth, springtime secrets, a garden-club murder, clean romantic tension, and a community fighting to protect what matters.[