Crafts and Life

Fresh from solving her third mystery, Gethsemane Brown’s ready to relax and enjoy her summer. Her plans include nothing more dangerous than performing in the opening ceremony of the annual rose and garden show and cheering on Frankie Grennan, who has entered his hybrid rose into the competition.

But when a mysterious stalker starts leaving Frankie floral bouquets as coded messages, Gethsemane fears a copycat may be planning to recreate the still-unsolved murders of the infamous Flower Shop Killer. Then Frankie’s main competitor in the rose show—and the reason his marriage failed—turns up dead in Frankie’s rose garden. Frankie takes first prize in the category of prime suspect.

So much for a relaxing summer.

As bodies start dropping like rose petals, Gethsemane must judge the other suspects and find the real killer. Or rose bushes won’t be the only things dead-headed in Dunmullach.

Summertime and the living is easy …. well that is the hope at any rate, the only things on the horizon are cheering Frankie Grennan on in his quest to win the best rose garden and best rose and conducting one piece of music, playing another.  But then things take a turn for the worse, Frankie appears to have a horticultural stalker, and the man who stole both his ex wife AND a rose he was cultivating has arrived and is needling Frankie at his photo shoot.  The problem then is that Roderick Jacobi (the aforementioned wife and rose thief) has wound up dead in Frankie's garden, killed by one of Frankie's gardening tools!

Now the Garda are looking at Frankie as the murderer but Gethsemene (and Eamon) are sure that is totally wrong and seriously out of character for Frankie, and so Gethsemene is back in sleuthing mode to make sure the right person ends up behind bars, so that Frankie can be back in front of the bar at the Mad Rabbit.