Silent Bud Deadly (The English Cottage Garden Mysteries)

Poppy never imagined she’d move to the English countryside and fall in love with a smug, demanding, ginger-haired male. Of course, that was before she discovered that she’d inherited a cottage garden nursery and before she met a certain talkative orange cat. Now she’s embracing a new life filled with rambling roses, fragrant herbs, warm summer days… and weeds (lots of weeds), as she attempts to restore the neglected cottage garden to its former glory.
When she lands her first gardening job at a beautiful country house, Poppy is delighted to earn some much-needed money. But she barely sets foot in the flower bed before the meddling neighbour drops dead in front of her—murdered by a lethal poison. Before she knows it, Poppy is busy weeding out suspects, helped by mad scientist Bertie and his feisty terrier, Einstein, plus a whole host of nosy villagers… not to mention maverick crime author Nick Forrest.
But with her clients’ flowerbed mysteriously dying and red herrings at every turn, Poppy soon discovers that neither gardening nor sleuthing are as simple as she thinks…

This book follows British English spelling and usage.
Clean read: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.
Genre: cat cozy mystery series / gardening cozy mystery / women amateur sleuth / British detective mystery

THE ENGLISH COTTAGE GARDEN MYSTERIES
Deadhead and Buried (Book 1)
Silent Bud Deadly (Book 2)
Doom and Bloom (Book 3) ~ coming soon!

• Doom and Bloom (The English Cottage Garden Mysteries)
• Deadhead and Buried (The English Cottage Garden Mysteries)
• Checked Out (The Village Library Mysteries)
• The Inn at Holiday Bay: Haunting in the Hallway
• Purrs and Peril: A Norwegian Forest Cat Café Cozy Mystery - Book 1
• A Twist in the Tail: An absolutely purrfect cozy mystery (The Oyster Cove Guesthouse)
• The Inn at Holiday Bay: Answers in the Attic
• Digging Up History (A Museum Mystery)
• Meow Means Murder: A Norwegian Forest Cat Café Cozy Mystery
• The Inn at Holiday Bay: Message in the Mantel