The last place Dr. Helen McCrae, retired literature professor, wanted to spend her golden years was Paradise Cove, Florida. Like all great professors, she’d intended to die at her desk, with her greatest lecture still left ungiven. Until an ill-fated slip while shoveling snow ended her plans.
Now, instead of teaching promising grad students about the intricacies of the Golden Age Detective novel, she’s reshelving books and facilitating book groups in the Paradise Cove Retirement Community’s tiny community library. All the while, trying to prevent her nosy neighbor – and President of the HOA—Stella Vaughn from roping her into getting more involved in the community.
That is, until the day she finds the community’s most hated man, dead on the floor of the Retirement Center’s Candace Long Auditorium with the back of his head bashed in.
When her Sheriff ex-son-in-law wrongfully arrests a retired Hollywood actress for the murder, Helen has no choice but to team up with a group of bored retirees – including the town’s beloved former Sheriff Big Jim Carver—to find the real killer before they strike again.
Helen McCrae has never had what anyone would call a green thumb so she has no idea why her nosy neighbor Stella Vaughn wants her to be a judge in the Paradise Cove Spring Festival Flower Show. Helen has never made a secret of the fact that not only can she not keep a plant alive – she can’t even remember to dust a fake one.
That is, until she meets Carole Anne Mulroney and the rest of the Paradise Lake and Cove Gardening Club. What they need isn’t a garden-show judge, they need a warden to keep them all in line. And somehow Helen accidentally volunteered herself in a moment of annoyance.
But when the Garden Club president ends up dead in a flower bed? Helen’s job goes from deciding who has the best houseplant to figuring out which of Carole Anne Mulroney’s friends and family decided that their secrets were worth killing for.
Coming Soon!!!