Cozy Gardening Mysteries

Spring is for gardening! Last weekend I was working in my garden and then I thought that growing plants and flowers provides a lot of backgrounds for mystery novels. “Like everything else under the sun, innocent plants can be put to harmful uses”, writes Susan Albert Witting, the author of the China Bayles herbal mysteries.

Garden mysteries contain double meaning: gardens have beautiful flowers and plants and yet can be full of thorns and hide ingredients that can kill. 

Rare or prize winning plants can be worth fortunes, have worldwide markets and be the source of a crime.