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"Fantastic amateur sleuth"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted April 15, 2005

Peggy Lee, who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a widow and a botanist who teaches part time at Queens College and owns the Potting Shed. One fall day her bicycle bumps into Steve's car, Saturn Vue, she adopts a dog the size of a small horse and she Read more...

"Great new gardening mystery"
Reviewed by Dawn Dowdle
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted March 19, 2006

Peggy Lee is widowed and now owns The Potting Shed, a local garden shop. Her husband was a police detective. She also teaches part-time at the local university. She is a botanist. She arrives at her shop only to find a dead man. How did he get Read more...

Summary

It's another busy fall day for Peggy. A quick café lecture on African violets is followed by a minor bike accident involving a good-looking Saturn driver. Upon returning to her shop, Peggy discovers one of the wealthiest men in town—and one of the biggest philanderers—sprawled face down across one of her seasonal displays, apparently beaten to death with a garden shovel.

When the cops pin the murder on a local homeless man, Peggy must rake through evidence and dig up secrets to root out the real killer.