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The Plot Thickets

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Springtime—and another murder case—comes to Goosebush, Massachusetts, in Julia Henry's latest installment in the Garden Squad Mystery cozy series featuring sixty-something gardener Lilly Jayne!
With spring's arrival in Goosebush, Lilly and the Beautification Committee turn their eyes to new projects. A cleanup of the historic Goosebush Cemetery may be in order, after Lilly and Delia find the plots there sorely neglected and inexplicably rearranged. Lilly soon discovers that Whitney Dunne-Bradford snapped up custodianship of the graveyard once she inherited Bradford Funeral Homes. But before Lilly can get to the bottom of the tombstone tampering, she stumbles upon Whitney's body at the Jayne family mausoleum . . .

Though at first it appears Whitney died by suicide, Lilly has doubts, and apparently, so does Chief of Police Bash Haywood, who quickly opens a murder investigation. Plenty of folks in town had bones to pick with Whitney, including her stepdaughter, Sasha, and funeral home employee, Dewey Marsh—all three recently charged with illegal business practices. But when the homicide inquiry suddenly targets an old friend, Lilly and the Garden Squad must rally to exhume the truth before the real killer buries it forever . . .
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      September 15, 2022
      An avid New England gardener digs up the dirt on a local funeral parlor. Lilly Jayne is an exemplar of active senior living. Well into her 60s, she juggles a staggering number of projects, mostly centered on beautifying her hometown of Goosebush, Massachusetts. Helped by her handsome neighbor Roddy Lyden, she's heavily invested in a major renovation of Alden Park, and she's also helping establish a bird sanctuary along Shipyard Lane. When she turns her attention to the overgrown thickets at the Goosebush Town Cemetery, however, Lilly gets a jolt. Not only are the graves badly tended, but some of the plots don't seem to be where she remembers them. Markers are missing, and newly placed headstones have appeared in what should have been old family plots. When Lilly comes to her own family mausoleum, her surprise turns to alarm. Not only is the garden a mess, but someone's moved the bench from one side of the tomb to the back wall. Her concern deepens even further when Whitney Dunne-Bradford, the owner of Bradford Funeral Home, is murdered. But her author gives Lilly such a rich and varied social life that it's hard to generate much forward thrust for her investigation. Like an underpowered rototiller, she plows the same ground over and over with minimal progress. At the end, it's clear that some kind of scam probably occurred, but whether premeditated malfeasance or sloppy paperwork is to blame is pretty much anyone's guess. Mulch ado about nothing.

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