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.
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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