Murder Crops Up - Softcover

Roberts, Lora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449150488 ISBN 13: 9780449150481

Publisher: Fawcett, 1998

Synopsis

A GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL

In the cheerful community garden where struggling freelance writer Liz Sullivan grows her veggies, someone is raking up old, hurtful scandals. So when a dead body turns up in nosy Lois Humphries's meticulously maintained plot, Liz is labeled a murderer!

With her reliable friend Detective Paul Drake out of town, Liz has a hard row to hoe--until she digs up dirt on some fellow gardeners who seem more than capable of giving the grim reaper a hand. But it'll take a deadly encounter among the cornstalks to catch a green-thumbed killer red-handed. . . .

About this title

About the Author

Lora Roberts has written four other novels featuring freelance writer Liz Sullivan: Murder in a Nice Neighborhood, Murder in the Marketplace, Murder Mile High, and Murder Bone by Bone. Like her protagonist, she lives in northern California and owns a dog. She also has a husband and two sons.

From the Back Cover

"Highly original. Liz Sullivan is an enormously sypathetic heroine."
--CAROLYN G. HART

"A refreshing and offbeat take on the female detective."
--San Francisco Chronicle

From the Inside Flap

GOOD AND EVIL

In the cheerful community garden where struggling freelance writer Liz Sullivan grows her veggies, someone is raking up old, hurtful scandals. So when a dead body turns up in nosy Lois Humphries's meticulously maintained plot, Liz is labeled a murderer!

With her reliable friend Detective Paul Drake out of town, Liz has a hard row to hoe--until she digs up dirt on some fellow gardeners who seem more than capable of giving the grim reaper a hand. But it'll take a deadly encounter among the cornstalks to catch a green-thumbed killer red-handed. . . .

Reviews

Peripatetic, cynical, emotionally cautious Liz Sullivan is back in her fifth mystery and has settled down in a rickety cottage in suburban California. No longer living out of her VW bus (crime scene of her first outing, Murder in a Nice Neighborhood), she ekes out a living as a freelance writer and organic gardener. Having served time for the attempted murder of an abusive spouse, Liz considers her own criminal past over, until a gardener hints that Liz better show up for the community garden workday, warning her that one of her fellows is planting the seeds for blackmail. At the workday, it's not just Bermuda grass that gets sent to its just reward; a body is pushing daisies in one of the garden plots. A bushel of suspects keeps Liz and the police guessing about motives. Despite some understandable distrust of emotional entanglements, the arrival of a desperate niece and body number two leave Liz yearning in more ways than one for her absent neighbor, handsome police detective Paul Drake. Liz is a capable and likable character and Roberts has managed to mesh the clean and cozy atmosphere of compost-loving gardeners with the seedier side life.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0449150488
• ISBN 13: 9780449150481
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230