The Blackwood B&B Mysteries: VOL5: Arsenic & Architecture.

A toxic discovery in the greenhouse proves that not everything that blooms is benign.Elara and her contractor boyfriend, Hayes, are finally tackling the most overgrown project yet: Blackwood Manor's massive Victorian glass conservatory. But the renovation takes a dangerous turn when Corbel, the sassy Maine Coon cat, unearths a dusty glass apothecary bottle stamped with a skull and crossbones from the chimney breast.Hoping for historical context, Elara takes the sinister bottle to the Blackwood Garden Club's monthly luncheon. But the meeting ends in chaos when Beatrice, the tyrannical Garden Club President, takes a sip of her custom herbal tea and drops dead. Chief Higgins is quick to blame the local baker, but Elara recognizes the symptoms-they perfectly match a rare, historical poison hinted at by the antique bottle.As Elara dives into a prickly web of floral puns, prize-winning orchids, and vicious town gossip, Hayes battles the tangled vines of the Manor's greenhouse. Together, they uncover a lucrative black market for endangered, highly toxic plants-and realize the killer is using a 100-year-old recipe to silence their enemies.When the killer targets Elara with a poisoned cup of tea, the stakes become deadly personal. Can Elara and Hayes weed out a murderer before their dream of a "forever" together is permanently uprooted?Fans of sweet romance, DIY fixer-uppers, sassy cat sidekicks, and clever amateur sleuths will absolutely devour this fifth installment in the Blackwood B&B Mysteries!