Mary Minor Harry” Harristeen is on the hunt for a killer with a deadly green thumb when a day
in the garden turns fatal in this exciting new mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline
co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Spring arrives in northern Virginia and as the ground thaws and
the peonies begin to bloom a bright magenta the women of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church prepare
for a Homecoming celebration like no other. Harry Susan Tucker and their friends are busy
planting flowers and trimming hedges to get the church grounds in shape for the big day. But a
note of a menace mars the beautiful spring: The brewery owned by Janice Childs and Mags Nielsen
two members of the gardening committee gets robbed with hundreds of dollars in merchandise
taken off their delivery trucks in the dead of night. Is this the work of a random thief? Or is
something more sinister afoot? When Jeannie Cordle drops dead at a charity auction poisoned by
a fatal weed Harry’s worst suspicions are confirmed: a killer lurks in their midst one with a
keen understanding of poisonous plants. Although she can’t yet prove it Harry knows the murder
is related to the thefts at Bottom’s Up Brewery. With help from her feline sidekicks Mrs.
Murphy and Pewter as well as Tee Tucker the corgi and sweet puppy Pirate Harry sets out to
find the weed in St. Luke’s garden—and stop a killer before they can strike again.
