About A Deadly Garden Party by Elspeth Marlowe
Retired biology teacher Delia Norris moved to Magnolia Grove hoping for a fresh start after her divorce — a slower pace, friendly neighbors, maybe a garden club to join. What she didn’t expect was to watch the club’s imperious president collapse dead at her own garden party, poisoned in front of a dozen witnesses.
Now Delia finds herself surrounded by suspects with secrets to bury.
A bitter rival. A nervous treasurer. A ruined landscaper. An estranged stepdaughter. Everyone has something to hide and everyone has a motive.
With her sharp eye for detail and Captain, her opinionated African Gray parrot, offering commentary at the worst possible moments, Delia digs beneath Magnolia Grove’s picture-perfect surface. Because in this town, the deadliest things grow in the prettiest gardens.
A Deadly Garden Party is the first Magnolia Grove cozy mystery, a charming small-town whodunit with a clever amateur sleuth, a scene-stealing parrot, and a cast of neighbors worth returning to. Perfect for a quick, cozy read you can finish with a cup of tea.
Pull up a chair at the garden party — just don’t drink the tea.
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Author Bio:
Elspeth Marlowe writes cozy mysteries about small Southern towns, sharp-elbowed garden clubs, and the trouble that grows in well-tended soil. Her Magnolia Grove series follows Delia Norris, a retired biology teacher who moves south after a divorce looking for a fresh start and witnesses a murder instead. When she’s not plotting murders among the flowerbeds, Elspeth tends a houseful of plants, sips herbal tea (or Prosecco, depending on how the scene is going), and writes with a stuffed penguin standing guard on her desk.