Summer Garden Murder

✍ Scribed by Ripley, Ann

• Book ID: 108537708
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 280 KB
• Series: Gardening Mystery 9
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780758288110

✦ Synopsis

The star of public television's top garden show, Louise Eldridge is something of a celebrity. But when a dead body is planted in her backyard, she's in for notoriety of a different kind...

Summer is the season for disquiet in Louise's Sylvan Valley cul de sac, and the tradition continues when an uninvited guest crashes a neighborhood soiree. Five years ago, Louise identified Peter Hoffman as the "mulch murderer." Now he's been released from a Virginia state mental institution. Leaving the party doesn't put enough distance between Louise and Hoffman, who has a thing or two to say to her--and actually has the nerve to follow her home to air his grievances. Shaken by the incident, Louise and family decide to take a little R&R; at the beach in the hope that Hoffman will have moved on by the time they return.

When they get back from vacation, Hoffman's moved on all right--but not in quite the way Louise had hoped. He's been missing for seven days, and Louise is the one...