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Gardens, Gateaux & Greed
(2027)(The seventh book in the Just Desserts Club Mysteries series)
A novel by Daisy James
It's the annual garden show in the picturesque Devonshire village of Little Sweeting, where perfect peonies, magnificent marrows and glorious gateaux are all vying to win the "Best in Show" rosette.
Petals, preserves... and peril!
Little Sweeting is positively blooming with excitement. Beloved TV gardening personality Rupert Robinson is the guest of honour, and exhibitors have spent months nurturing prize-winning blooms, giant vegetables and immaculate flower arrangements in the hope of catching his expert eye. To celebrate the occasion, Lottie Chadwick has created an array of flower-inspired treats for the refreshments tent, from Daisy-shaped Doughnuts toBlooming Brilliant Brownies, hoping they'll prove as popular as Anthea's prize-winning peonies.
But no amount of Sunflower Scones or Elderflower Éclairs can stop the celebrity gardener from pruning egos and sowing discord. By the time judging is underway, he's upset half the village. So when Rupert is found dead in the exhibition tent, impaled on an ornamental garden sculpture, Little Sweeting's happiest day of the year blossoms into a real-life whodunnit.
With rumours spreading through the village faster than Japanese knotweed, Lottie and her friends in the Just Desserts Club must once again don their metaphorical deerstalkers and dig beneath the flowerbeds to unearth the truth.
Can they root out the murderer before someone else is pushing up daisies?
Perfect for fans of cosy mysteries, English village murder mysteries, amateur sleuths, gardening mysteries, culinary cosy crime, and charming British whodunnits filled with friendship, cake and clever twists.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Petals, preserves... and peril!
Little Sweeting is positively blooming with excitement. Beloved TV gardening personality Rupert Robinson is the guest of honour, and exhibitors have spent months nurturing prize-winning blooms, giant vegetables and immaculate flower arrangements in the hope of catching his expert eye. To celebrate the occasion, Lottie Chadwick has created an array of flower-inspired treats for the refreshments tent, from Daisy-shaped Doughnuts toBlooming Brilliant Brownies, hoping they'll prove as popular as Anthea's prize-winning peonies.
But no amount of Sunflower Scones or Elderflower Éclairs can stop the celebrity gardener from pruning egos and sowing discord. By the time judging is underway, he's upset half the village. So when Rupert is found dead in the exhibition tent, impaled on an ornamental garden sculpture, Little Sweeting's happiest day of the year blossoms into a real-life whodunnit.
With rumours spreading through the village faster than Japanese knotweed, Lottie and her friends in the Just Desserts Club must once again don their metaphorical deerstalkers and dig beneath the flowerbeds to unearth the truth.
Can they root out the murderer before someone else is pushing up daisies?
Perfect for fans of cosy mysteries, English village murder mysteries, amateur sleuths, gardening mysteries, culinary cosy crime, and charming British whodunnits filled with friendship, cake and clever twists.
Genre: Cozy Mystery