Poison in the Petals
(2026)(The sixth book in the Sady Sawyer Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Nora Noor
When the garden show comes to Briarwood, someone decides the most dangerous thing in bloom isn't the nightshade.
Sadie Sawyer came to the Briarwood Botanical Garden Show to demonstrate natural dyeing, not solve a murder. But when imperious judge Clifton Avery turns up dead among the nightshade topiaries, an antique hatpin pressed into his lapel and poison worked into his ceremonial gloves, the fiber arts shop owner can't stop noticing things that don't add up.
Good thing she has Baxter. When her golden retriever plants all four paws beside the judges' glove box and refuses to move, Sadie knows the clues are closer than anyone realizes.
Denny Ogawa was publicly humiliated by Clifton three years running. Patience Culver goes nervous whenever the entry ledgers come up. Both had motive. Both were there.
When Sadie's own botanical samples are stolen to frame her, someone makes it clear they are not finished.
If she can't untangle fifteen years of falsified records, the only ribbon awarded this season will be wrapped around an unsolved case.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Sadie Sawyer came to the Briarwood Botanical Garden Show to demonstrate natural dyeing, not solve a murder. But when imperious judge Clifton Avery turns up dead among the nightshade topiaries, an antique hatpin pressed into his lapel and poison worked into his ceremonial gloves, the fiber arts shop owner can't stop noticing things that don't add up.
Good thing she has Baxter. When her golden retriever plants all four paws beside the judges' glove box and refuses to move, Sadie knows the clues are closer than anyone realizes.
Denny Ogawa was publicly humiliated by Clifton three years running. Patience Culver goes nervous whenever the entry ledgers come up. Both had motive. Both were there.
When Sadie's own botanical samples are stolen to frame her, someone makes it clear they are not finished.
If she can't untangle fifteen years of falsified records, the only ribbon awarded this season will be wrapped around an unsolved case.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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