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1) Blue dahlia
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Series
Language
English
Description
Centering around three courageous women, who meet for the first time at a crossroads in their lives, this first installment in a new trilogy follows Stella as she casts aside her fears and finds a special love that she will do anything to protect.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 8
Language
English
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Description
Christmas, 1934-- and all of the Darlings are busy. Mildred Kilgore and Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square-- if they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two of the biggest puzzles of his career as an investigative reporter, and one of them involves his wife. Cute little Cupcake's talent as a singer and dancer makes her a tempting target for an unscrupulous exploiter. Lizzy must enlist the Dahlias to protect...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Rumors are sprouting in Depression-era Darling, Alabama. The town's newest visitors, Nona Jean Jamison and Miss Lake, may be the Naughty and Nice Sisters from the Ziegfeld Frolic, who specialize in dancing nearly naked. The Dahlias suspect more than modesty when Nona denies her association
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
The Texas Star herself -- Miss Lily Dare, the "fastest woman in the world" -- is bringing her Dare Devils Flying Circus to Darling. Unfortunately, she's also bringing a whole lot of trouble and rumors are flying. As the Texas Star barnstorms into town, Liz and Verna Tidwell offer to help bring down a saboteur who may be propelled by revenge. Before it's all over, there will be plenty of black eyes and dark secrets revealed .
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
"For the Confederate Day celebration, the Darling Dahlias are ready to plant Confederate roses along the fence of the town cemetery. Miss Dorothy Rogers, club member and town librarian, would be quick to point out the plant is in fact a hibiscus. The Confederate rose is not the only thing that is not what it first appears to be in this small Southern town. Earle Scroggins, the county treasurer, has got the sheriff thinking that Scroggins' employee...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama, garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder.
11) Menacing groves
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1989, ©1988
Language
English
Description
Botanist Celia Grant, a widow from Sussex, encounters a couple she met briefly last year. They have new names and seem to have come into money, or is something strange going on?
12) A secret garden
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
'What I want to know', said Lorna, 'is what lies behind the wooded area at the back of the garden? Lorna is a talented gardener and Philly is a plantswoman. Together they work in the grounds of a beautiful manor house in the Cotswolds. They enjoy their work and are surrounded by family and friends. But for them both the door to true love remains resolutely closed. So when Lorna is introduced to Jack at a dinner party and Lucien catches Philly's eye...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year. At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in language, her work as a gardener, and keeping her neighbors at arm's length while keenly observing them. But when she is unexpectedly granted some leave from...
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