Arsenic in the Azaleas (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 1)

A new cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Follow gardener and amateur sleuth Doreen Montgomery—and her amusing and mostly lovable cat, dog, and parrot—as they catch murderers and solve crimes in lovely Kelowna, British Columbia.

Riches to rags. … Controlling to chaos. … But murder … seriously?

After her ex-husband leaves her high and dry, former socialite Doreen Montgomery's chance at a new life comes in the form of her grandmother, Nan's, dilapidated old house in picturesque Kelowna … and the added job of caring for the animals Nan couldn’t take into assisted living with her: Thaddeus, the loquacious African gray parrot with a ripe vocabulary, and his buddy, Goliath, a monster-size cat with an equally monstrous attitude.

It’s the new start Doreen and her beloved basset hound, Mugs, desperately need. But, just as things start to look up for Doreen, Goliath the cat and Mugs the dog find a human finger in Nan’s overrun garden.

And not just a finger. Once the police start digging, the rest of the body turns up and turns out to be connected to an old unsolved crime.

With her grandmother as the prime suspect, Doreen soon finds herself stumbling over clues and getting on Corporal Mack Moreau’s last nerve, as she does her best to prove her beloved Nan innocent of murder.

• Bones in the Begonias (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 2)
• Corpse in the Carnations (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 3)
• Dagger in the Dahlias (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 4)
• Evidence in the Echinacea (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 5)
• Footprints in the Ferns (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 6)
• Christmas at Mistletoe Lodge: New Holiday Romances to Benefit St. Judes Hospital
• Gun in the Gardenias (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 7)
• Icepick in the Ivy (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 9)
• Bought The Farm (A Rainy Day Mystery Book 1)
• Handcuffs in the Heather (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 8)