"Flowers and Foul Play" Book Review
Flowers and Foul Play
(A Magic Garden Mystery #1)
by Amanda Flower
Book Description:
Fiona Knox lost her fiancé and her flower shop—but when she flies to Scotland to inherit her godfather’s cottage and possibly magical walled garden, she may lose her life as well when she’s swept into a murder investigation.
Florist Fiona Knox’s life isn’t smelling so sweet these days. Her fiancé left her for their cake decorator. Then, her flower shop wilted after a chain florist opened next door. So when her godfather, Ian MacCallister, leaves her a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, Fiona jumps on the next plane to Edinburgh. Ian, after all, is the one who taught her to love flowers. But when Ian’s elderly caretaker Hamish MacGregor shows her to the cottage upon her arrival, she finds the once resplendent grounds of Duncreigan in a dreadful shambles—with a dead body in the garden.
Minutes into her arrival, Fiona is already being questioned by the handsome Chief Inspector Neil Craig and getting her passport seized. But it’s Craig’s fixation on Uncle Ian’s loyal caretaker, Hamish, as a prime suspect, that really makes her worried. As Fiona strolls the town, she quickly realizes there are a whole bouquet of suspects much more likely to have killed Alastair Croft, the dead lawyer who seems to have had more enemies than friends.
Now it’s up to Fiona to clear Hamish’s name before it’s too late in Flowers and Foul Play, national bestselling author Amanda Flower’s enchanting first Magic Garden mystery.
Florist Fiona Knox’s life isn’t smelling so sweet these days. Her fiancé left her for their cake decorator. Then, her flower shop wilted after a chain florist opened next door. So when her godfather, Ian MacCallister, leaves her a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, Fiona jumps on the next plane to Edinburgh. Ian, after all, is the one who taught her to love flowers. But when Ian’s elderly caretaker Hamish MacGregor shows her to the cottage upon her arrival, she finds the once resplendent grounds of Duncreigan in a dreadful shambles—with a dead body in the garden.
Minutes into her arrival, Fiona is already being questioned by the handsome Chief Inspector Neil Craig and getting her passport seized. But it’s Craig’s fixation on Uncle Ian’s loyal caretaker, Hamish, as a prime suspect, that really makes her worried. As Fiona strolls the town, she quickly realizes there are a whole bouquet of suspects much more likely to have killed Alastair Croft, the dead lawyer who seems to have had more enemies than friends.
Now it’s up to Fiona to clear Hamish’s name before it’s too late in Flowers and Foul Play, national bestselling author Amanda Flower’s enchanting first Magic Garden mystery.
My Book Review: Wow, can you see the ivy covering the wall of the Magic Garden? Can you smell the shepherd's pie from Twisted Fox Pub...made from the owner's late mother's recipe? Can you feel the cold chill of the brutal cold of the quaint village in Scotland? I'd be surprised if you didn't experience each of these elements of Flowers and Foul Play because Amanda Flower's writing makes it so clear to me that I almost felt like I was there with Fiona.
I adore a good mystery and this one is definitely good. In fact, it is superb! I'm usually very good at solving the mystery by the middle of the book, but I never saw this one coming! That makes any mystery more exciting for me. This book is not predictable. It is fresh and fun! It's intense at just the right moments. It has characters you will love and those jerks that you will love to hate.
I am rating this book 5 stars and highly recommend it to those who enjoy mysteries.
I adore a good mystery and this one is definitely good. In fact, it is superb! I'm usually very good at solving the mystery by the middle of the book, but I never saw this one coming! That makes any mystery more exciting for me. This book is not predictable. It is fresh and fun! It's intense at just the right moments. It has characters you will love and those jerks that you will love to hate.
I am rating this book 5 stars and highly recommend it to those who enjoy mysteries.
I received a copy of this book from netgalley and Crooked Lane Books in exchange for my honest review. All opinions expressed are my own. I was not required to write a positive review.
About the Author:
Amanda Flower, an 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. Her debut mystery, Maid of Murder, was an Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel. Amanda is an adult services librarian for a public library near Cleveland. She also writes mysteries as USA Today bestselling author Isabella Alan.
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