Gun in the Gardenias (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 7)
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He shook his head. “Don’t bother. That’s all extra anyway. It’s there because I’m supposed to spread it in the front garden but haven’t gotten around to it.”
She nodded and said, “Well, thank you for the dirt I used.”
And she lifted it from her wheelbarrow and put it up at the corner of the garage. As she turned the wheelbarrow around, she looked at the hydrangeas in his garden and said, “This garden is doing really well. And that heather is gorgeous. The hydrangea is looking lovely too.”
“The hydrangea is nice. It’s the blue-flowering variety.”
As she studied the bush, she wondered out loud, “I’m surprised that bush is so small though.”
He shrugged. “It’s been small since forever. I don’t know why. Probably no room up against the house.”
She wondered. “May I take a look?”
He stared at her suspiciously. “What could you possibly look at?”
But she eyed something flashing in the light. Only it wasn’t in the hydrangeas, but rather in the blooming heather in front of the bigger bush.
“Who knows? Something could be restricting the bush’s root system.” At least that gave her an excuse to get in the garden bed.
She crouched at the edge of the hydrangeas to where the heather had tangled up in something metallic.
Almost immediately she identified the item. She gasped, shocked, and then she laughed. Very carefully she scooped away the leaves and the mulch that had piled up over the years.
And sure enough, she found a set of handcuffs, one of which was caught around the plant.
She sat back and howled with laughter. It wasn’t handcuffs in the hydrangeas. Instead, it was handcuffs in the heather …
Who’d have guessed?
Even better that they were torn and very much worse-for-wear pink satin handcuffs. … She snickered.
Wait until she told Mack …
This concludes Book 7 of Lovely Lethal Gardens: Gun in the Gardenias.
Read about Handcuffs in the Heather: Lovely Lethal Gardens, Book 8
Lovely Lethal Gardens:
Handcuffs in the Heather
(Book #8)
A new cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Follow gardener and amateur sleuth Doreen Montgomery—and her amusing and mostly lovable cat, dog, and parrot—as they catch murderers and solve crimes in lovely Kelowna, British Columbia.
Riches to rags. … Everything is under control, … until it isn’t. And Doreen’s in the middle of it!
The four boxes of files Doreen inherited from journalist Bridgeman Solomon have already helped her solve one crime, and Doreen hopes they’ll continue to assist her as she sticks her nose into future cases. But, when she stumbles over a pair of pink satin handcuffs in her standoffish neighbor Richard de Genaro’s heather patch, it’s hard to believe that those reporter’s files could have anything useful to offer regarding that.
Doreen takes a look though, and soon she’s headed down a merry trail of prostitution, embezzlement, and, of course, murder. But the minute the files suggest a connection to Doreen’s specialty, a cold case, her beau and partner in crime, Corporal Mack Moreau, starts breathing down her neck.
With her trusty animals leading the way, Doreen sets out to find the connection between the reputable banker who died in an unsolved hit-and-run and the prostitute who owned the pink satin handcuffs. As Doreen puts it all together, even she is surprised at the outcome of her latest investigation.
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GUN IN THE GARDENIAS: LOVELY LETHAL GARDENS, BOOK 7
Dale Mayer
Valley Publishing
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