Hope’s schedule is already jam packed with recipe testing and shameless plugs for her food blog as she rushes off to attend a spring garden tour in the charming town of Jefferson, Connecticut. Unfortunately, it isn’t the perfectly arranged potted plants that grab her attention—it’s the bloody body of reviled real estate agent Peaches McCoy . . .
One of the tour guests committed murder, and all eyes are on Hope’s older sister, Claire Dixon—who, at best, saw Peaches as a professional rival. And suspicions really heat up when another murder occurs the following night. Now, with two messy murders shaking Jefferson and all evidence pointing to Claire, Hope must set aside her burgeoning brand to prove her sister’s innocence. But the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she gets to a killer intent on making sure her life goes permanently out of style . . .
The first in a series is always a risk, but this is one worth taking.
Hope Early has left New York, the burnout from being a magazine editor, a failed marriage and a stint on a "reality" cooking show and has headed back to her home town of Jefferson, she has bought a fixer upper house and as well as being a professional food blogger she is adding snippets onto her blog showing the work she is doing on the house (of course the kitchen was the first thing done and that she had professional help with - food is after all her life and work!), on the morning her sister's life changes she has taken a break from blogging and baking and along with Claire (her older sister) she is headed for a garden tour, what she and her friend Drew (he is a local reporter) find isn't a fantastic plant but a planted corpse! The problem is the corpse is that of Peaches McCoy, a real estate shark and bane of Claire's existence (Claire is also a real estate agent), now the local police detective is looking at Claire as Suspect #1, and even more closely when there is another murder.
Now Hope needs to pull something special out of the air if she is to save her sister, oh and herself as at some point she is getting too close to the real murderer and ends up in that persons cross hairs!
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