"fine Flower Shop mystery"
In New Chapel, Indiana, flower shop owner Abby Knight
worries about her business failing. She needs new
customers and knows that flowers and funerals go together
like bacon and eggs. Thus she decides to open up
a "tasteful" floral booth at the Funeral Director
Society's annual convention. On the down side Abby will deal with some creepy souls who
appreciate the DEARLY DEPOTTED as no one else can dig
them. For instance the Colonel who is president of the
FDS is the self anointed Master Mortician who insists he
knows everything there is in converting a corpse into a
living tribute and is willing to tell anyone who is not
afraid to ask him for a consultation. Then there is the
environmental ground hugger Eli "Green Guy" Cotton who
believes Kermit is right that grieving relatives should
send their loved ones off in green. The lively gala turns
morbid when cosmetician to the dead Sybil "the Diva of
Death Masks" Blount is killed. Unable to resist, Abby
investigates who was drumming up business. The latest Flower Shop mystery (see MUM'S THE WORD and
ACTS OF VIOLET) is an amusing graveyard amateur sleuth
that will have the audience laughing at the antics of the
conventioneers and Abby's matchmaking mom. The story line
is humorous as Abby knows she should have snipped her
curiosity in the bud, but instead digs up clues. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 2, 2007
SummaryAbby Knight is attending the Midwestern Funeral Directors
Associations regional convention, where the associations
intensely disliked chairperson is found dead in a locked
casket, her signature rose missing from her hair. Abby's
determined to find out who loved the victim—and who
loved her not.
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