Sprinkling of Murder (A Fairy Garden Mystery, #1)

by Daryl Wood Gerber

Fairy garden store owner Courtney Kelly believes in inviting magic into your life. But when uninvited trouble enters her shop, she’ll need more than a sprinkling of her imagination to solve a murder . . .
 
Since childhood, Courtney has loved fairies. After her mother died when Courtney was ten, she lost touch with that feeling of magic. A year ago, at age twenty-nine, she rediscovered it when she left her father's landscaping business to spread her wings and start a fairy garden business and teashop in beautiful Carmel, California. At Open Your Imagination, she teaches garden design and sells everything from fairy figurines to tinkling wind chimes. Now she's starting a book club tea.
 
But the light of the magical world she's created inside her shop is darkened one night when she discovers neighboring dog-grooming business owner Mick Watkins dead beside her patio fountain. To make matters worse, the police suspect Courtney of the crime. To clear her name and find the real killer, Courtney will have to wing it. But she’s about to get a little help from an unexpected source . . .

• ISBN10: 1496726340
• ISBN13: 9781496726346
• Publish Date: 30 June 2020
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Kensington Publishing
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 304
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781496726346

Reviews

[Baroness Book Trove]

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy from the . This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.A Sprinkling of Murder by Daryl Wood Gerber is about believing in something that may or may not exist while keeping up with good faith about your neighbors.

Will Courtney not only help out Fiona but figure out this mystery?

Courtney

Courtney is our primary and point of view character. I loved seeing things through Courtney's eyes. One of the many things that I liked about this book is how Courtney tries to teach the people coming into her shop, and us the readers, about how to make our fairy gardens. The way she lost the touch of seeing fairies to getting the site back to have her thriving business is excellent. Courtney is an only child that has been raised by a retired cop. So, she won't be much trouble for our town cop in this story. The main thing that I like about her is that she doesn't hide her secret about being able to see fairies and doesn't care if that makes her seem weird.

Fiona

Fiona is the resident fairy of Courtney's shop. She is all sorts of trouble for Courtney in all manners of speaking. Not only is she a prankster, but she is on probation, and the fairy queen sent her there to try to make things right. Fiona is a big ball of sunshine and funny qualities to her. She is also very into helping and protecting Courtney along the way as she feels it is her duty. What I like about Fiona is that, not only is she a good fairy, but she likes to help out the kids picking out their things for their fairy gardens.

The Mystery

The mystery is a big wow. One of Courtney's shop neighbors named Mick Watkins was found dead in her shop's patio area in the back. That is where she does all of her classes on how to do certain things and have tea. Detective Summers thinks that she is a suspect, which starts her off with wanting to clear her name. I might have fallen for some of the red herrings, but in my mind, I kind of had an inkling of who did it. That inkling was right. I just didn't think of why it was until the motive came out.

Five Stars

A Sprinkling of Murder by Daryl Wood Gerber is an excellent start to Ms. Gerber's new series called A Fairy Garden Mystery. I am so intrigued about this whole thing. I love how she did everything from the town set up, to the people living in the village, and of course the existence of fairies. Ms. Gerber has done a fantastic job, and I can't wait to read the next one.

I am giving this book five stars and recommending it to anyone that likes to read paranormal cozy mysteries. 



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