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BEST-LAID PLANTS

Best-laid Plants, October 2017
Potting Shed Mystery 6
by Marty Wingate

Random House
Featuring: Batty Bede; Coral Summersun; Pru Parke
261 pages
ISBN: 1101968079
EAN: 9781101968079
Kindle: B01MSAATUW
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"Wills and ills, plants and plots; a lot of challenges for a gardener!"

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BEST-LAID PLANTS
Marty Wingate

Reviewed by Clare O'Beara
Posted April 22, 2018

Mystery Cozy | Mystery Woman Sleuth

I previously enjoyed books in the Potting Shed Mystery series and as well as in the Birds of A Feather series by popular author Marty Wingate, so I was delighted to dig up another mystery to solve. This is the sixth novel featuring an American garden designer who moves to work in England, named Pru Parke, who discovers that her BEST-LAID PLANTS actually feels to me like a modern day Agatha Christie, but presents a Texan lady in a role Christie would never have considered; like one of the characters we meet, her characters would have called gardeners "staff" and not invited them into the house. Fans of amateur sleuth books in an English village setting will adore the read whether they like gardens or not, but gardeners will go potty for it.

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A trip to the English countryside turns into a brush with death for Pru Parke, the only gardener whose holiday wouldnโ€™t be complete without a murder to solve. Pru and her husband, former Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Pearse, are long overdue for a getaway. So when Pru is invited to redesign an Arts and Crafts garden in the picturesque Cotswolds, she and Christopher jump at the chance. Unfortunately, their B&B is more ramshackle than charming, and the once thriving garden, with its lovely Thyme Walk, has fallen into heartbreaking neglect. With the gardenโ€™s owner and designer, Batsford Bede, under the weather, Pru tackles the renovation alone. But just as sheโ€™s starting to make headway, she stumbles upon Batsfordโ€™s body in the gardenโ€”dead and pinned beneath one of his limestone statues. With such a small police force in the area, Christopher is called upon to lead the investigation. Pru canโ€™t imagine anyone murdering Batsford Bede, a gentle man who preferred to spend his time in quiet contemplation, surrounded by nature. But as her work on the garden turns up one ominous clue after another, Pru discovers that the scenery is more dangerous than she or Christopher could have anticipated.

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BOOK SERIES

Potting Shed

The Garden Plot
THE GARDEN PLOT
#1.0 โ€ข May 2014
The Red Book of Primrose House
THE RED BOOK OF PRIMROSE HOUSE
#2.0 โ€ข November 2014
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
#3.0 โ€ข August 2015
The Bluebonnet Betrayal
THE BLUEBONNET BETRAYAL
#4.0 โ€ข August 2016
Best-laid Plants
BEST-LAID PLANTS
#6.0 โ€ข October 2017

 

 

 

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