Deadheading the Competition
(2026)(The third book in the Ruby Hartwell Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Pamela Gunn
In Pinewood, the smiles are wide, the secrets run deep, and the competition is fierce. This year, it's fatal.
Ruby Hartwell has the best intentions and absolutely no follow-through when it comes to minding her own business.
As owner of Ruby's Roots nursery, she's looking forward to Pinewood's Spring Festival: blue ribbons, sweet tea, and enough Southern charm to fill the Civic Center twice over. But when sharp-tongued Piper Thomas is found stone-cold dead in the cold-storage room, the only thing blooming is a very long list of people who wanted her gone.
Take Daisy Lambert, who had been warned—publicly and loudly—that Piper had the power to sink her garden display before a single judge laid eyes on it. Or Walter Spinks, the festival's biggest supplier, whose future depended on keeping certain secrets buried.
Ruby doesn't yet know who the killer is, but with every question she asks, someone in Pinewood is getting a little more nervous and a lot more desperate.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Ruby Hartwell has the best intentions and absolutely no follow-through when it comes to minding her own business.
As owner of Ruby's Roots nursery, she's looking forward to Pinewood's Spring Festival: blue ribbons, sweet tea, and enough Southern charm to fill the Civic Center twice over. But when sharp-tongued Piper Thomas is found stone-cold dead in the cold-storage room, the only thing blooming is a very long list of people who wanted her gone.
Take Daisy Lambert, who had been warned—publicly and loudly—that Piper had the power to sink her garden display before a single judge laid eyes on it. Or Walter Spinks, the festival's biggest supplier, whose future depended on keeping certain secrets buried.
Ruby doesn't yet know who the killer is, but with every question she asks, someone in Pinewood is getting a little more nervous and a lot more desperate.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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