Flower Mystery

Like everyone else in Palm Springs, Gish idolizes her smart, beautiful, kind older sister. Even their parents compare Gish unfavorably to Gloria—threatening to send her to boarding school once the more perfect sister leaves for college.

Virgil Flowers heads north to solve a puzzling murder - and finds that the country is very rough indeed. While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport asking him to investigate a murder at a nearby resort, where a woman has been shot while kayaking. The resort is for women only: a place to relax, get fit, recover from plastic surgery and commune with nature. It's also hotbed of jealousy, blackmail, greed, anger, and fear.

A luxury spa, a historic greenhouse, and a body strangled by garden twine… When plans to demolish part of Oakhaven’s Botanic Gardens are set in motion, tensions bloom among the town’s elite. But when the wealthy developer behind the project is found dead in the very garden he sought to raze, florist and amateur sleuth Posy Brooks finds herself drawn into another tangled mystery. All signs point to a crime of passion—or revenge. A rare orchid is missing. A secret chamber may hide long-buried documents. And Posy’s great-aunt Elara’s past whispers warnings through hidden notes and ...

When a deadly virus ravages the seafood population off the coast of Scotland, the townsfolk of Portree, Isle of Skye, are devastated. Charter boat captain Robin Murphy and café owner Becca Ronan stumble upon evidence that ties the contamination to a pharmaceutical company, thrusting them into a tangled net of mystery. Robin fears—Becca hopes—the Selkies, if they’re real, hold the key. Robin says his priority is finding a cure, but the seal folk he’s befriended on his getaway isle have stolen his heart. Becca's long-lost father and free-spirited mother may save the day…or bring ...

He controls the variables. She embraces the chaos. Their collaboration could rewrite biology... or get them killed. Dr. Aris Thorne lives by data and disciplines, meticulously analyzing life within the sterile confines of his lab. Dr. Lena Petrova chases discoveries in the wild, trusting muddy boots and fierce intuition over algorithms. They're academic rivals forced into the most unlikely partnership: co-leading a high-stakes expedition into the uncharted heart of the Amazon. Their target: the legendary Flos susurrans, the Whispering Bloom – a mythical plant exhibiting impossible ...

Julie has been looking forward to staying with her friend Isobel in Tuscany for a long time and sees it as an opportunity to relax after a difficult spell at home. But things aren't what they should be in Isobel's Tuscan villa, and Julie's holiday is completely wrecked by the bizarre antics of the other guests. So much so, that it's a relief to be home again. But this is precisely when the trouble starts for Julie. The more she thinks about it, the more she is convinced that one of Isobel's guests should have been murdered, but which one and why? And how on earth is she going to prove her ...

Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in New York, leaving no trace and never to be heard from again. For the past twelve years, his mother has kept the search for her son alive by hounding every law enforcement agency she can get to listen. Now, Chester's body is finally found - hanging from the very billboard that has been advertising his disappearance.

Gracie Alderman, a retired systems analyst, continues her busy life doing bookkeeping for the family restaurants and consulting with local law enforcement. Their lovely community is plagued with more drug overdoses and the threat of a gang war. Gracie, Sheriff Frank, and the Blue River PD have their hands full as they solve a murder and hunt for the drug boss.

The high-end contemporary art gallery scene explodes in Santa Fe, New Mexico with ugly feuds, artistic temperamental egos, sexual entanglements and murder. Vincent Malone, one-time attorney and legal investigator, now down-on-his-luck shuttle driver, is right in the middle of all of the suspenseful action. His new employer, the Blue Door Inn, is hosting a big international artist in Santa Fe for her U.S. debut, and nothing is going smoothly. The artist and gallery owner are threatening each other with physical harm. Before long there is one dead body and plenty of suspects. Malone dusts off...

Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. Then she receives the first in a series of cryptic and unsettling letters from a woman named Anna Kiel. Wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young lawyer three years earlier, Anna hasn't been seen by anyone since she left the crime scene covered in blood.

Margot Davies is an aspiring investigative journalist stuck in a rudderless job at a small-time newspaper, until one night she stumbles upon a new development in an unsolved, decades-old case that took place in her very own hometown: the infamous murder of six-year-old January Jacobs. With this new information come to light, Margot quickly becomes obsessed with solving the case. She packs up and heads back to the hometown she left at eight years old, hoping to bring justice to January, who was discovered dead in a ditch only hours after her family awoke to find her gone.

From a writer whose work has been praised by Junot Díaz as “Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest,” Don’t Send Flowers is a riveting novel centered on Carlos Treviño, a retired police detective in northern Mexico who has to go up against the corruption and violence that caused him to leave the force, when he’s hired by a businessman to find his missing daughter. A 17-year-old girl has disappeared after a fight with her boyfriend that was interrupted by armed men, leaving the boyfriend on life support and the girl an apparent kidnapping victim.

Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as "A." and who clearly believes she is writing to the former tenant, her ex-lover, in the aftermath of a violent heartbreak. Marcos falls under the spell of the manic, hypnotic missives, and for the first time in years, something moves him.

Elmer y Rose han creado una familia perfecta entre los enormes cactus de un remoto paisaje desértico, un hogar lleno de amor para sus cinco hijas, todas con nombres de flor: Edelweiss, Iris, Melissa, Dahlia y Daisy.

Although Psychic Surveys remain busy, there’s been no real cases lately to get their teeth into, logical explanations found for most hauntings. That all changes when Ruby gets a call from Conor Byrne, who lives in the Republic of Ireland. The fear in his voice is genuine. Ruby, Theo, Ness and Corinna head over to the Emerald Isle to help Conor, and, of course, the distressed spirit – their aim to bring peace to the living and the dead. They arrive to find a dilapidated cottage in a rural area, and a man that’s barely alive.

In "Fatal Flowers," the year is 1888, and ex-Pinkerton detective Oliver Redcastle's teenage daughter, Chloe, has gone missing. Kidnapped by an unscrupulous orchid-hunter, she disappears into Florida's vast and treacherous Everglades. Oliver will stop at nothing to find her, and his journey takes him across an ocean, where he battles an assassin, defies murderous train robbers, and confronts sharpshooting enemies from his bloody Civil War past. As Oliver ventures deeper into Florida's most mysterious and exotic wilderness, he discovers the River of Grass holds secrets that will define both ...

Amanda Flower presents Book 6 in the Amish Matchmaking series.

Presley and Cooper are permanently back in Hunter's Hollow, where she is taking over her mother's flower shop, Petal Pushers. Her biggest concern is how little she knows about flowers. One day, as she walks through the town square to the Uptown Café, she finds the mayor's face planted in a bed of snapdragons, and he's not moving.

Something strange is going down in the sleepy seaside village of Madderly Bay. Best friends Selena and Chloe are stuck in the most boring summer ever—until food starts coming to life and running wild in the streets. But that’s just the beginning. Earthquakes start shaking the village, and creepy claw marks show up, hinting at something dark stirring beneath the waves. Only Selena and Chloe know the real story about the zombie mermaids they faced before—and now they’re worried the threat they thought was gone might be back. As the tremors get worse and the water turns a scary green, ...

This was the moment in life they'd prepared for without believing anything would ever come of it...they were wrong. Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad...and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She and everyone in her family had always understood the high cost of secrets...and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly. It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true heart-stopping fear. She did now and knew that the heart-pounding terror she’d experienced in those handful of ...