Horror in the Hostas: A Dahlia Cruikshank Teatime Mystery

By Melinda Shultz

Dahlia Cruikshank, Ph.D., the quirky curator for the Fort Harmony Horticulture Society, has an uncanny ability to talk to plants and read tealeaves, handy skills to have when solving the occasional crime.The annual garden show, the town's most anticipated social event, is just a few weeks away and Dahlia, charged with adding a bit of magic to the event, finds herself working long hours to create a conservatory full of enchanting floral displays. Setting out on a midnight mission to pot some pinks, she and Oolong, her Labrador retriever, make a grisly discovery - partially concealed in a bed of prize-winning hostas is the body of Beatrice Comstock, president of the society's board of directors. Who would want to kill her and why?Local newspaper editor, Joe McDermott, knows that covering the murder could net him a Pulitzer Prize - why not team up with the bewitching botanist? But Harry Collins, the new detective in town, has no time for tealeaves, a bewitching botanist or a pesky newspaperman - this case is police business. When a second murder victim turns up in a compost heap, the race is on to find the killer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982933585
• ISBN13: 9781982933586
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"