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Keeping Mum

Alyse Carlson - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Paperback

Roanoke, Virginia, is home to some of the country's most exquisite gardens, and it's Camellia Harris's job to promote them. But when a political fundraiser turns deadly, everyone's a candidate for murder...Cam and her best friend, Annie, are planning a gala for a local Senate...
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The Flower Master

Sujata Massey

Agatha Award-winning author Sujata Massey makes her hardcover debut with The flower Master, the third entry in her wonderfully successful mystery series featuring a savvy young Japanese-American woman in modern-day Tokyo. Rei Shimura, a twentysomething part-California g
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Aunt Dimity and the Duke

Nancy Atherton - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England's glorious gardens. A Dimity-contrived coincidence...
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Thyme of Death

Susan Wittig Albert - Scribner's
Format: Print book

Eager to open up an herb shop and get closer to the earth, China Bayles leaves behind her career in corporate law and moves to Pecan Springs, Texas, but a close friend's tragic death could end her happy plans.
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The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

The international best seller! A masterful gothic thriller set against the turbulence of medieval Italy. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed...
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Roots of Murder

Janis Harrison - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

The flower shop in River City, Missouri, is Bretta Solomon's whole life. Widowed more than a year ago when her cop husband died of a heart attack, Bretta has thrown herself into her florist business and her place in this small, rural midwestern community. And her diet--she's lost...
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Something in the Water (Peter Shandy Mysteries)

Charlotte MacLeod - Mysterious Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Peter Shandy, the botanist-sleuth from The Corpse in Oozak's Pond, discovers deception during a field trip, when a man is poisoned and the locals seek out the murderer--to give proper thanks. 35,000 first printing. Tour.
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Monk's-Hood: The Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

Ellis Peters - Morrow
Format: Book

When Gervase Bonel, rich lord of the manor, is found poisoned, foul play is suspected. Are Cadfael's powers of deduction strong enough to lead him through the maze of clues to the truth? This full-cast dramatization stars Philip Madoc as the medieval monk and sleuth, Brother Cadfael.
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Plant Them Deep (Rose Destea a Rose Novel)

David Thurlo - Forge Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

For the Navajo, to "walk in beauty"-to stay in balance with the natural world around one-is the greatest gift, and the greatest task, of one's life. For Rose Destea, to walk in beauty has meant threading a difficult path between traditionalist and modernist ways. Though she worships...
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Summer Garden Murder (Gardening Mysteries)

Ann Ripley - Kensington; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

At the start of Ripley's intrigue-filled gardening mystery, the eighth entry in this popular series after Death at the Spring Plant Sale (2003), Louise Eldridge, who hosts a TV gardening show, is shocked to see at a suburban party Peter Hoffman, a murderer she helped send to a state...
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Bindweed: A Gardening Mystery

Janis Harrison

River City, Missouri, florist Bretta Solomon is happy to spend an occasional day off with her helper, Toby, a slow-witted young man whose mother died from a terminal illness, leaving him on his own. Everyone in town, including Bretta, takes extra care to make sure Toby is doing ok
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Harvest of Murder: A Gardening Mystery

Ann Ripley

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Reap a Wicked Harvest: A Gardening Mystery

Janis Harrison

In River City, Missouri, the "wedding of the year" is causing florist Bretta Solomon one headache after another. Bretta and a few other River City business owners have been hired by a newcomer to this small Midwestern town to throw an unforgettable party for Evelyn Montgomery's...
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The Christmas Garden Affair : A Gardening Mystery

Ann Ripley - Kensington Books
Format: Library Binding

You don't have to know an echinops from an epimedium to enjoy Ripley's (Harvest of Murder; Death of a Garden Pest, etc.) cast of characters, plucked from every niche of the horticultural world. Louise Eldridge, her ratings for her PBS show "Gardening with Nature" sinking...
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Death in the Orchid Garden

Ann Ripley - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Louise Eldridge is taking her public television garden show on the road--to Hawaii! But the tropical paradise isnt so idyllic once murder makes an unexpected appearance. . .Lush with hibiscus, ficus, plumeria, and monkeypod trees, the island of Kauai is the perfect place for Louise...
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Death At The Spring Plant Sale: A Gardening Mystery (Gardening Mysteries)

Ann Ripley - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Louise comes to the Bethesda Garden Club's famous spring plant sale hoping to get great footage for her public television show, Gardening with Nature. But companionable chats take a back seat to sleuthing when club president Catherine Freeman is shot point-blank in her own driveway....
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Mrs. Jeffries Wins the Prize: A Victorian Mystery

Emily Brightwell - Berkley Books
Format: Print book

Mrs. Jeffries is back in the New York Times bestselling Victorian series, perfect for fans of Downton Abbey. NIPPED IN THE BUD The ladies of the Mayfair Orchid and Exotic Plant Society are known for a bit of friendly rivalry, but the backstabbing has never been...
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The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

National bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to the small town of Darling, Alabama, in the 1930swhere the Darling Dahlias, the colorful ladies of a garden club, are anything but shrinking violets when it comes to rooting out criminalsThe Texas Star herselfMiss Lily Dare, the fastest...
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