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China Bayles and her husband, Mike McQuaid, become involved in the tangled affaire of Phoebe the Pickle Queen, owner of the largest pickle business in Texas, but things take a dangerous turn when Phoebe mysteriously vanishes.

Venturing to a sprawling mansion in Cornwall—led by the ghost of Aunt Dimity—Emma Porter puts aside her broken heart to restore a once glorious chapel garden, where she overhears rumors about the near-death of a beautiful family cousin.

Agatha Raisin enters a prestigious garden contest in an effort to attract the interest of bachelor James Lacey, but the detective part of her takes over when everyone’s plants are suddenly uprooted or burned, and the prime suspect is found murdered.

On a free trip to Europe courtesy of her garden club, Sarah begins investigating why people on the tour seem interested in anything but gardens while her husband Alex attempts to find out what happened to missing garden expert Ellen Trevino.

A gardening class sounds like fun for Jane Jeffry and her friend Shelly, but when the teacher is attacked and his substitute murdered, the two friends are digging for clues all over.

When her new client, Mimi Adams, an avid gardener, meets her demise after a Horticultural Heritage Society meeting debacle, Charlotte LaRue must dig through a wealth of gossip, betrayals, and jealousy to catch a killer.

Believing they have found their dream home in a beautiful English garden house, Alex and Kate Sheppard make a science-defying discovery in their garden and find their world unraveling in the wake of genetic experiments, coded journals, and murder.

When restoration plans at a historical garden in Devon are interrupted by the discovery of two ancient bodies beneath a stone plinth, detective sergeant Wesley Peterson finds his hands full trying to solve a modern mystery.

Follows Susanna, Lady Appleton, as she assists the scholars in an investigation into England’s claim on the New World, but when a scholar is murdered, Susanna must discover the truth.

Rachel O’Connor, owner of Rain Country Landscaping, is delighted to be working to restore the decrepit landscape at Garden View Retirement Village, especially in light of the happiness it brings to the elderly residents, until, one by one, the inhabitants of the retirement community began to pass away from other-than-natural causes.

Newly married Kate Jasper is forced to put her honeymoon on hold when she finds herself targeted by a radical group of deer supporters and must track down a killer before it is too late.

Accepting a commission to paint a wealthy landowner’s wedding portrait, renowned 1763 London portrait artist Joshua Pope arrives at the man’s estate only to discover a dead body in the greenhouse, and when the intended bride’s necklace goes missing a few days later, Pope finds himself accused.

In the wake of a series of murders that have taken place in her favorite garden maze, Queen Elizabeth I summons her band of amateur detectives, including her herbalist, bodyguard, and main advisor, before risking her own life to solve the case.

Florist Bretta Solomon is none too happy to attend a funeral for which her shop provided the flowers or an event at the Parker Wholesale Greenhouse that is turned upside down by the brutal murder of a greenhouse assistant.

Set in modern L.A., this novel of moral and spiritual reckoning finds a Japanese American who survived the horrors of Hiroshima forced to relive the nightmare when a stranger show up looking for him.

When Gervase Bonel, a guest at the Shrewsbury Abbey, takes ill, Brother Cadfael, an expert herbalist, runs to his side, only to discover that his patient has been poisoned by monk’s hood oil taken from Cadfael’s own laboratory.

His daughter’s life hangs in the balance as Detective Inspector Rebus becomes caught up in the middle of two dangerous investigations—one involving a suspected Nazi war criminal, and the other a dispute between two rival gangs.

When the coffin of a Norton girl goes missing, Victoria Trumbull becomes increasingly alarmed as everyone connected to the coffin is brutally murdered, a situation that appears to be related to a mysterious yew tree.

Hoping to get some good deals at the Bethesda Garden Club’s spring plant sale, Louise Eldridge, Host of “Gardening with Nature,” finds herself cultivating a murder investigation instead when the club president is murdered.

Freelance writer Liz Sullivan is accused of murder when the dead body of a nosy neighbor turns up in her garden, sending her to her friend, Detective Paul Drake, for help in clearing her name and finding the real killer.

Master landscaper Nina Colette Ceceri Quinn turns sleuth to investigate the murder of the elderly man who had introduced her to the joys of horticulture, while also dealing with a fading marriage to adulterous police detective Kevin Quinn, an antisocial stepson Riley, and a host of small-town secrets that could have deadly repercussions.

When two young girls in the Kentucky Shaker village fall suddenly and deathly ill, Shaker eldress Rose Callahan begins to suspect that their illness may be linked to the medicinal herb garden and to Andrew, its new trustee, but her investigation is soon complicated by an unexplained death.