
Agatha Nominee for 2008 Best First Novel. Malice Domestic
Convention to be held May 1-3, 2009
Meet Paula Holliday, a transplanted media exec who trades
her stilettos for garden clogs when she makes the move
from the big city to the suburbs to start a gardening
business. Paula can handle deer, slugs, and the occasional
human pest—but she’s not prepared for the mummified
body she finds while restoring the gardens at Halcyon, a
local landmark.
Casual snooping turns serious when
a body is impaled on a garden tool and one of Paula’s
friends is arrested for the crime. Aided by the still-hot
aging rocker who owns the neighborhood greasy spoon, a
wise-cracking former colleague, and a sexy Mexican laborer
with a few secrets of his own, Paula digs for the truth
and unearths more dirty business the town has kept buried
for years…
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