The Red Book of Primrose House
Marty Wingate

#Free4All Weekend off to England for a gardening cozy
January 11, 2015

Potting Shed Mystery #2
Alibi
November 2014
On Sale: November 4, 2014
Featuring: Pru Parke; Humphry Repton; Christopher Pearse
273 pages
ISBN: 0804177716
EAN: 9780804177719
Kindle: B00KAFXBHE
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A stately home garden restoration attracts murderous attention

In Marty Wingate’s charming new Potting Shed Mystery, Texas transplant Pru Parke’s restoration of a historic landscape in England is uprooted by an ax murderer.

Pru Parke has her dream job: head gardener at an eighteenth-century manor house in Sussex. The landscape for Primrose House was laid out in 1806 by renowned designer Humphry Repton in one of his meticulously illustrated Red Books, and the new owners want Pru to restore the estate to its former glory—quickly, as they’re planning to showcase it in less than a year at a summer party.

But life gets in the way of the best laid plans: When not being happily distracted by the romantic attentions of the handsome Inspector Christopher Pearse, Pru is digging into the mystery of her own British roots. Still, she manages to make considerable progress on the vast grounds—until vandals wreak havoc on each of her projects. Then, to her horror, one of her workers is found murdered among the yews. The police have a suspect, but Pru is certain they’re wrong. Once again, Pru finds herself entangled in a thicket of evil intentions—and her, without a hatchet.