Nina Quinn's got her quirky side. She's imaginative. It's not a bad trait to have when you're envisioning somebody's Apollo-like landscape, but dangerous when your inquisitive nature includes on investigating crimes and deaths.

Even though Nina knows she should ream Jean Claude up one side and down the other for missing yet another employees' meeting, she won't. She doesn't have the heart. Besides she'd never find out why he's so tired. Do his late hours mean he broken his parole? Her soft heart includes her soon to be ex-husband, Detective Kevin Quinn. He is showing signs that life isn't always greener on the other side of the bed, especially when the woman you're leaving is the proprietor of Taken by Surprise Garden Designs, and still houses your teenage son under her roof.

Life is anything but boring if Nina has anything to say about it. When her soon to be ex-husband's, former wife's sister hires Taken by Surprise to landscape her yard, Nina jumps at the chance to find out any incriminating information on Kevin's first wife's death. But before she can get past tilling the yard, the real owner shows up and has a heart attack. The District Attorney is out to make himself a name at Nina's expense and threatens to bring charges up on her. Like any of this was her fault?

Her mother's answer to any woos is to remodel Nina's home, but what starts out as just new bedcovers and a paint job, becomes a nightmare of its own as one disaster after another befalls her home.

The residents of Fallow Falls Homeowner's Association have as many secrets as a cat has lives. There is a business partnership that is anything but friendly. Don't forget Nina's employees that may still have feet on both sides of the law.

And if that don't beat all, Bobby McKenna, her new boyfriend, has been offered a job as a principal of an elementary school in Tampa Florida. It may solve her worries about the financial loss of her company, but a move away from everybody she knows is not want she wants, is it? What's a girl to do?

There's more laughter, mayhem, and danger, but I don't want to spoil it for you. DIGGING UP TROUBLE is one of those books you'll enjoy at the park or on the beach. So take it, read it, and thank me when you're done.