Crafts and Life

An’gel and Dickce Ducote, busy with plans for the Athena Garden Club’s spring tour of grand old homes, are having trouble getting the other club members to help. The rest of the group is all a-flutter now that dashing and still-eligible Hadley Partridge is back to restore his family mansion. But the idle chatter soon turns deadly serious when a body turns up on the Partridge estate after a storm…
 
The remains might belong to Hadley’s long-lost sister-in-law, Callie, who everyone thought ran off with Hadley years ago. And if it’s not Callie, who could it be? As the Ducotes begin uncovering secrets, they discover that more than one person in Athena would kill to be Mrs. Partridge. Now An’gel and Dickce will need to get their hands dirty if they hope to reveal a killer’s deep-buried motives before someone else’s name is mud…

Another brilliant book by Miranda James, the Ducote sisters are members of the Athena Garden Club, which for years has been a female only institution, now with Hadley Partridge back in town and wanting to get Ashton Manor on the tour of gardens, he has been invited to join the committee.  Everything SHOULD be plain sailing, however most of the ladies on the committee had flirted with Hadley before he left 40 years ago, and now he is back, still dashing and still unmarried, everyone is hoping to pick up where they left off, oh and if possible become the Lady of the House.

The problem is the body count, a skeleton is found buried in the grounds of Ashton Manor, one of the ladies of the Garden Committee is pushed downstairs and another is run off the road and nearly killed, now An'gel and Dickce (along with Benjy their ward, Peanut the Labradoodle and Endora the cat) need to help Kanesha Berry figure out what is going on before someone else ends up six feet under!