"Death & Daisies" Book Review

Death and Daisies
(A Magic Garden Mystery #2)
by Amanda Flower

Book Description:
National bestselling author Amanda Flower returns with her second floral Magic Garden mystery, perfect for readers of Paige Shelton and Sheila Connolly.

Florist Fiona Knox left behind her gloomy life for a magical garden in 
Scotland, but a murder on her shop’s opening day spells doom.

Fiona Knox thought she was pulling her life back together when she inherited her godfather’s cottage in Duncreigan, Scotland—complete with a magical walled garden. But the erstwhile Tennessee flower shop owner promptly found herself puddle boot-deep in danger when she found a dead body among the glimmering blossoms. One police investigation later (made a trifle less unpleasant by the presence of handsome Chief Inspector Neil Craig), and Fiona’s life is getting back on a steady, though bewitched, track. Her sister Isla has just moved in with her, and the grand opening of her new spellbound venture, the Climbing Rose Flower Shop in Aberdeenshire, is imminent.

But dark, ensorcelled clouds are gathering to douse Fiona’s newly sunny outlook. First, imperious parish minister Quaid MacCullen makes it undeniably clear that he would be happy to send Fiona back to Tennessee. Then, a horrific lightning storm, rife with terribly omen, threatens to tear apart the elderly cottage and sends Fi and Isla cowering under their beds. The storm passes, but then, Fi is called away from the Climbing Rose’s opening soiree when Kipling, the tiny village’s weak-kneed volunteer police chief, finds a dead body on the beach.

The body proves difficult to identify, but Kipling is certain it’s that of the parish minister. Which makes Fiona, MacCullen’s new nemesis, a suspect. And what’s worse, Isla has seemed bewitched as of late…did she do something unspeakable to protect her sister? The last thing Fiona wanted to do was play detective again. But now, the rosy future she’d envisioned is going to seed, and if she and Craig can’t clear her name, her idyllic life will wilt away in Death and Daisies, national bestselling author Amanda Flower’s second enchanting Magic Garden mystery. 


MY REVIEW:  Do you love a good mystery?  Do you love to travel?  Do you love a subtle romance?   Then this is the book to read!   You will keep guessing to the very end of this book.   You will feel like you have traveled to Scotland.   You will love the romance between Fiona and the handsome Neil Craig.

        Fiona once again is involved in a murder mystery and once again, she just can't resist the urge to invest the murder....even after the Chief Inspector Neil Craig cautions her to stay out of it.    This isn't the first time that Fiona has found herself in the midst of a murder.  She just can't seem to avoid trouble following her.   I am once again fascinated by her special garden with its magical powers.   I've always thought it would be exciting to have a special garden.   I love to travel and Amanda Flower provides such detailed descriptions that you will feel as though you are actually in Scotland.

           I am rating this book 5 stars and I highly recommend it to readers who love a good mystery.


               I received a copy of this book from netgalley and Crooked Lane Books in exchange for my honest review.  I was not required to write a positive review and all opinions expressed are my own.   


About the Author:


Amanda Flower, a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning mystery author, started her writing career in elementary school when she read a story she wrote to her sixth grade class and had the class in stitches with her description of being stuck on the top of a Ferris wheel. She knew at that moment she’d found her calling of making people laugh with her words. In addition to being an author, Amanda has recently retired as a librarian in Northeast Ohio to write fulltime.

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