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A ROOT AWAKENING

A Root Awakening, February 2015
Flower Shop Mystery
by Kate Collins

Signet
Featuring: Abby Knight
336 pages
ISBN: 0451415515
EAN: 9780451415516
Kindle: B00LMGK55Q
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"Abby keeps looking into a young girl's behavior which later ties into their case."

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A ROOT AWAKENING
Kate Collins

Reviewed by Leanne Davis
Posted January 16, 2015

Mystery | Mystery Cozy

Abby and Marco are still house hunting. There are workers at one of their perspective homes and one of the men falls from the roof. A family with two children is living in the home. The next day, they are gone. The man is alive but in very bad shape.

Their realtor isn't taking them to homes that meet Abby's requirements but she is reluctant to let Jillian find her a home. However, she caves in to her hugely pregnant cousin's demands. In the interim, the wife of the roofer who is still in critical condition insists that someone pushed Sergio. He had been working roofs for years and never fallen before.

Abby and Marco agree to look into it. However, something about the daughter of the family who disappeared intrigues Abby and she keeps trying to get Marco and Riley interested. Both of them insist there is nothing to investigate but Abby can't let it go.

Just as Abby and Marco are ready to give up on their inquiries into Sergio's fall, he dies and his wife finds a note in his clothes that says, "Help me". Once again Abby keeps working on finding the family.

In between their investigation, their looking at houses and taking Jillian to the hospital with Braxton-Hicks contractions, Abby is increasingly busy at Bloomers. She hires Maria, Sergio's wife to help out.

Ms. Collins has skillfully woven two seemingly disparate stories together into a satisfying whole. I can't wait for the next in the series. Abby and Marco are building a new house and with a new baby for Jillian, life could be very interesting.

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SUMMARY

Abby Knight's marriage may be in full bloom, but house hunting is no bed of roses in latest novel in the New York Times bestselling Flower Shop Mystery series... Now that they’ve tied the knot, flower shop owner Abby Knight and her husband, Marco, want to put down roots. When it comes to picking a house, Marco can’t wait to get his hands dirty, while Abby isn’t ready for a fixer-upper. But conflict really sprouts when they’re checking out a dilapidated Victorian and watch a construction worker take a life-threatening tumble. Since witnesses claim the man shouted for help, suggesting that the fall was no accident, the victim’s flamboyant wife hires Marco to find the person responsible. Meanwhile, Abby keeps secret from Marco her own investigation into the home’s inhabitants, a family whose off-kilter behavior has aroused her suspicions. If only Abby’s very pregnant cousin, Jillian, will stop distracting Abby with false labor pains, she can conclude her own inquiries before Marco finds out…and her case blossoms into a disaster.

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BOOK SERIES

Flower Shop

Mum's the Word
MUM'S THE WORD
#1.0 β€’ November 2004
Slay it with Flowers
SLAY IT WITH FLOWERS
#2.0 β€’ March 2005
Dearly Depotted
DEARLY DEPOTTED
#3.0 β€’ July 2005
Snipped In The Bud
SNIPPED IN THE BUD
#4.0 β€’ May 2006
Acts Of Violets
ACTS OF VIOLETS
#5.0 β€’ March 2007
A Rose From the Dead
A ROSE FROM THE DEAD
#6.0 β€’ December 2007
Shoots to Kill
SHOOTS TO KILL
#7.0 β€’ August 2008
Evil In Carnations
EVIL IN CARNATIONS
#8.0 β€’ February 2009
Sleeping With Anemone
SLEEPING WITH ANEMONE
#9.0 β€’ February 2010
Dirty Rotten Tendrils
DIRTY ROTTEN TENDRILS
#10.0 β€’ October 2010
Night Of The Living Dandelion
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DANDELION
#11.0 β€’ April 2011
To Catch A Leaf
TO CATCH A LEAF
#12.0 β€’ November 2011
Nightshade On Elm Street
NIGHTSHADE ON ELM STREET
#13.0 β€’ November 2012
Seed No Evil
SEED NO EVIL
#14.0 β€’ August 2013
Throw In The Trowel
THROW IN THE TROWEL
#15.0 β€’ February 2014
A Root Awakening
A ROOT AWAKENING
#16.0 β€’ February 2015
Florist Gump
FLORIST GUMP
#17.0 β€’ November 2015
Moss Hysteria
MOSS HYSTERIA
#18.0 β€’ April 2016
Yews with Caution
YEWS WITH CAUTION
#19.0 β€’ June 2017

 

 

 

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