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Deadly thorns lurk among the roses in this Bridal Bouquet Shop MysteryFlorist Audrey Bloom, co-owner of the Rose in Bloom, creates fragrant bouquets for brides. But when a wedding goes fatally wrong, it's up to Audrey to sniff out a killer . . . Everything is coming up roses for Audrey when her dazzling creations are picked to be featured on a wedding reality show. The hot series is filming an episode about a bride who's bonkers for bells, and Audrey's bouquets of campanulas, calla lilies, and Bells-of-Ireland are perfect for the bridal theme. But Audrey's debut quickly becomes a hothouse of trouble. Her ex, Brad, shows up as a crew member on the show, threatening her blossoming relationship with Nick the baker. To make matters worse, when one of the show's hosts is found dead in the bell tower of a historic church, all the evidence points toward Brad.
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Beverly Allen, Ph.D.,is an author, lecturer and teacher in the humanities and spiritual traditions. Holding a Bachelors Degree in Music from the University of California at Berkeley, a Masters in Italian from Columbia University, and Ph.D in Italian Studies from U.C. Berkeley, she has taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Stanford University, Cornell University, the University of Zagreb, and Syracuse University, where she is William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, Emerita. Her diverse career includes a decade of investigative journalism and activism in Bosnia and Croatia during the 1990s. Insiders at the U.N. have said her Rape Warfare influenced the creation of a new international law making rape a Crime Against Humanity. A prize-winning literary translator and screenwriter, Beverly Allen now lives in Berkeley, California, where she is writing, lecturing and teaching. Her study of genocide and mass rape led her to an understanding that the Sacred Feminine is missing in Western Culture and the world in general. Tracing and reviving this is central to her work now. Her current topics of study include Gnosticism, early Christianity and the figure of Mary Magdalene, Dante and the Sacred Feminine, Fairy Tales, medieval European heresy and courtly love, Jung's work, and the literature of Italy's storied cities. A Certified Usui Reiki Master, she practices and values highly the arts of music, dance and knitting, she loves dogs and gardens, and she travels often to Italy and Scandinavia.
