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Keeping Mum

Keeping Mum, March 2014
Garden Society Mystery #3
by Alyse Carlson

Berkley Prime Crime
Featuring: Camellia Harris
304 pages
ISBN: 042525206X
EAN: 9780425252062
Kindle: B00EOARZ46
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"Cam and Annie find a real victim at their murder mystery party."

Fresh Fiction Review

Keeping Mum
Alyse Carlson

Reviewed by Leanne Davis
Posted June 22, 2014

Mystery Cozy

Cam and Annie are asked to plan a fund raiser for a local senatorial candidate. If it hadn't been for Annie's father asking them to take this one, they both would have turned it down. They've planned a murder mystery themed gala with an auction deciding who plays the "victim". Cam and Annie both have their hands full keeping all the egos of the guests in check. When they find one of the guests dead next to a port of chrysanthemums, the whole thing takes a bizarre twist. Derek Windermere was a financial tycoon who was trying to get into politics. He had purchased an entire table. Annie's father wasn't a fan of his but Annie's father has disappeared. His disappearance at the same time as the murder has the police looking seriously at him as a suspect. Annie begs Cam to help her find her father and clear his name. With Annie's stepmother behaving strangely and some of the other political figures with motives, the whole investigation will follow a series of small clues which Cam and Rob will have to decipher. The Garden Society Mysteries are becoming increasingly complex and interesting. KEEPING MUM was one of the best so far.

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SUMMARY

Roanoke, Virginia, is home to some of the country’s most exquisite gardens, and it’s Camellia Harris’s job to promote them. But when a political fundraiser turns deadly, everyone’s a candidate for murder...

Cam and her best friend, Annie, are planning a gala for a local Senate candidate—a murder mystery themed silent auction where the guests bid on who will be the night’s “victim.” Coordinating a beautiful display of fall flowers and planning the perfect fake crime is hard enough, but with a guest list that is a “who’s who” of the Roanoke elite, Cam has her hands full navigating the egos and grudges of her high society guests.

When local financial tycoon Derrick Windermere is found dead next to a shattered pot of chrysanthemums, the night’s fun and games quickly turn serious. Half the guests had good reason to want Windermere dead, but only one is suspiciously missing in action—Annie’s father. Now Cam will not only have to figure out which partygoer is a killer, but find her friend’s father before all their reputations end up dragged through the mud...


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