A Root Awakening (Flower Shop Mystery, #16)

by Kate Collins

Abby Knight's marriage may be in full bloom, but house hunting is no bed of roses in latest novel in the New York Times bestselling Flower Shop Mystery series...

Now that they’ve tied the knot, flower shop owner Abby Knight and her husband, Marco, want to put down roots. When it comes to picking a house, Marco can’t wait to get his hands dirty, while Abby isn’t ready for a fixer-upper. But conflict really sprouts when they’re checking out a dilapidated Victorian and watch a construction worker take a life-threatening tumble.
 
Since witnesses claim the man shouted for help, suggesting that the fall was no accident, the victim’s flamboyant wife hires Marco to find the person responsible. Meanwhile, Abby keeps secret from Marco her own investigation into the home’s inhabitants, a family whose off-kilter behavior has aroused her suspicions. If only Abby’s very pregnant cousin, Jillian, will stop distracting Abby with false labor pains, she can conclude her own inquiries before Marco finds out…and her case blossoms into a disaster.

• ISBN10: 0451415515
• ISBN13: 9780451415516
• Publish Date: 3 February 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 336
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780451415516

Reviews

[MurderByDeath]

I had really already decided to stop this series after the last one because it's just not my thing, but I bought this one by accident so I had thought to give it a try.  I picked it up this afternoon and after reading this on the back:

'Meanwhile, Abby keeps secret from Marco her own investigation into the home's inhabitants...'

No.  Just, no.  Not my thing at all.

Of course, I'm not going to rate it since I haven't even opened the cover.  On the plus side, my shelves just gained about 2 feet of empty space.  :)