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Gone but not for garden / Kate Collins.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Goddess of Greene St. mystery ; 4Publisher: New York, New York : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2023]Description: 360 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781496740021
  • 1496740025
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: When her cousin, an emcee at a local fashion show, is accused of murder, flower-shop owner Abby Knight teams up with Athena Spencer, whose family owns a garden center, to dig up the dirt on a growing list of suspects to weed out a killer.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

New York Times bestselling author Kate Collins pairs Abby Knight, her sleuth from her Hallmark Channel Flower Shop Mysteries, with Athena Spencer, a single mom from a big Greek-American family, as they investigate a crime of fashion in the idyllic town of Sequoia, Michigan...

Athena Spencer works with her big Greek-American family (whom she also anonymously blogs about) at their garden center near Lake Michigan. She's also gained a reputation for crime-solving-and that's what brings flower-shop owner and fellow sleuth Abby Knight Salvare to her door . . .
Abby has come from Indiana to this Lake Michigan town to help her cousin, Jillian, who was emceeing a local fashion show and now stands accused of murdering one of the models. Some of Sequoia's most prominent citizens were there on the catwalk, so there's increasing pressure to have the next event be a perp walk.

The clueless Jillian is in jail after ignoring orders not to leave town, and she isn't happy-orange is not her color. Along with her handsome PI partner, Case, Athena starts making inquiries, while tiptoeing around the wives of the town's mayor and police chief. In the meantime, the two detectives are becoming fast friends. After all, in addition to homicide, Abby and Athena share an interest in horticulture-though right now the only thing they're growing is their list of suspects . . .

When her cousin, an emcee at a local fashion show, is accused of murder, flower-shop owner Abby Knight teams up with Athena Spencer, whose family owns a garden center, to dig up the dirt on a growing list of suspects to weed out a killer.

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Kirkus Book Review

An Indiana private eye's first paying case draws on her personal connections but threatens her perspective on her placid small-town community. Athena Spencer is working at Bloomers Flower Shop, her family's floral business in Sequoia, a town near Lake Michigan, when she's approached by a stranger looking for help. Abby Knight Salvare and her husband, Marco, run a private detective agency in New Chapel, Indiana, and they've got a case for the Goddess of Greene Street, which is what local papers have dubbed Athena based on her sleuthing abilities. Abby wants to hire Athena's Greene Street Detective Agency to look into a murder during the final night of the Small Business Association's fashion show. Carly Blackburn, one of the locals acting as a model in the show, was poisoned, and the accused, Abby's cousin, Jillian Ophelia Knight Osborne, is adamant she had nothing to do with the crime. Because of the fundraising nature of the event, the other attendees--that is, suspects--are also Sequoia movers and shakers, from Fran Decker, owner of Fabulous Fashions, to Mayor Charles E. Sloan himself. Abby is sure that Athena's personal connections could help push the investigation beyond the limited information she's been able to collect. And Athena's thrilled to be working her first official investigation with Case Donnelly, her partner in and out of the office. But her ability to get people talking gives her an unwelcome, unflattering view of her town friends, and she's not sure she'll be able to go back even after the killer's identified. A middling mystery that does what it should but not much more. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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