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.
What a fun start to a new series! Fiona Knox has inherited her Godfather's cottage and garden and she has jumped on a plane to see it and sign any documents needed for the transfer (without too much regret as her cheating fiancé left her for their cake decorator!), she had always loved the walled garden but when she gets there it is in a sorry state, as near as makes no odds all the plants are pretty much dead, but not as dead as the corpse of the lawyer she was supposed to meet the next day! Now Fiona needs to convince Chief Inspector Craig that she, and her late Godfather's long time friend and fellow gardener Hamish, are not guilty of murder. Oh and add in a suddenly adopted cat, a tame (but larcenous) red squirrel, and the unbelievable idea that she is now the Keeper of the Magic Garden and Fiona isn't sure that she shouldn't just pack her bags and head back to Tennessee!
Sounds like a great read! I'm glad you enjoyed it and I'll definitely be adding to my TBR.
Posted by: Ashley Montgomery | 03/22/2020 at 03:17 AM