Seed No Evil: A Flower Shop Mystery (Flower Shop Mystery, #14)

by Kate Collins

It’s finally time to say, “I do!” As long as I can keep my mom
out of jail long enough to get her to the ceremony....

Someone’s Biting Mad.

Abby Knight’s wedding is in less than two weeks, and everything is going wrong. The cooler in her flower shop is leaking, her neck has swollen to unnatural proportions, her groom is acting distant, and she still doesn’t know where she’s actually getting married!

But things go from bad to worse when the director of her favorite charity, Protecting Animal Rights, is murdered, and Abby’s mother becomes the main suspect. Abby’s wedding worries will have to wait until she—along with her fiancé, Marco, and an adorable mutt named Seedy—can nose out who wanted the animal activist put to sleep. But they’ll have to sort through the long list of suspects quickly, or her mom may be tossed in the slammer before Abby tosses the bouquet....

• ISBN10: 0451415493
• ISBN13: 9780451415493
• Publish Date: 6 August 2013
• 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/9780451415493

Reviews

[MurderByDeath]

This one started out slow for me and I was to the point of asking myself why I was continuing on with this series when it all started to click for me and I found myself quite engrossed for the last half.

All the engaging characters are around for this one, including Jillian, who hasn't managed to acquire any new brain cells. The titles and authors of some of the books she was reading made me chuckle, though. Mom was more real in this book and I enjoyed that quite a bit. The whole animal shelter angle tugged at my heartstrings more than I prefer in my cozies, but the author did an excellent job of pointing a light on animal welfare without resorting to graphic scenes to get her point across. Bravo.

The murder plot itself was very well done; even though the author doesn't try overly hard to hide who did it, the ending still left me gasping just that tiny bit, it was excellent! The book's ending was very sweet as well. Would that we could all have our own personal version of Marco...