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Agatha Nominee for 2008 Best First Novel. Malice Domestic Convention to be held May 1-3, 2009 


Minotaur Books
February 2009
On Sale: February 3, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0312943725
EAN: 9780312943721
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
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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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