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Pushing Up Daisies

Rosemary Harris

Recommended by: Rhonda (yet another great librarian)

6/8-15

Meet Paula Holliday, a transplanted media exec who trades her stilettos for garden clogs when she makes the move from the big city to the suburbs to start a gardening business. Paula can handle deer, slugs, and the occasional human pest--but she's not prepared for the mummified body she finds while restoring the gardens at Halcyon, a local landmark.
   Casual snooping turns serious when a body is impaled on a garden tool and one of Paula's friends is arrested for the crime.
   Aided by the still-hot aging rocker who owns the neighborhood greasy spoon, a wise-cracking former colleague, and a sexy Mexican laborer with a few secrets of his own, Paula digs for the truth and unearths more dirty business the town has kept buried for years.

What I thought: It wasn't bad. Just not that good. I always felt like I was missing something. I would read back over something and it just seemed off. But it was a good story line.