The Plant That Knew Too Much: A Botanical Cozy Mystery (The Tansy Pendrell Mysteries Book 1)

Some secrets are buried deep. Others are right in the potting soil. Tansy Pendrell prefers the quiet company of ferns and philodendrons to small-town gossip. Running her beloved plant shop, The Potted Pendrell, with her sister Rose, she spends her days diagnosing root rot and matching customers with the perfect botanical companion. Her peaceful life is uprooted when ruthless venture capitalist Gerald Finch demands she make a house call to save his dying, ultra-rare Philodendron spiritus-sancti. Instead, she finds his glass conservatory turned into an oven—and Gerald dead on the floor, his priceless plant toppled beside him. The police, led by the frustratingly handsome Detective Clem Porter, have their sights set on Gerald's terrified assistant. Tansy knows they have the wrong man. Because one witness was left alive in that room—and it can't lie. The suffocating soil packed around its roots, the torn leaf, the state of its stems: the plant remembers exactly what happened that afternoon. And Tansy is the only person in town who speaks its language. Armed with her mother's vintage botanical toolkit, a tight-knit circle of quirky friends, and an encyclopedic knowledge of soil science, Tansy must dig through a tangled web of rival collectors, broken alibis, and a blackmail nobody will name to unearth the real killer—before the man who loved that plant takes the fall for a murder he didn't commit. The Plant That Knew Too Much is the first book in The Tansy Pendrell Mysteries—a cozy mystery series for readers who love clever amateur sleuths, charming small towns, clean whodunits, and heroines with a green thumb. Pick up your copy and settle in among the ferns—murder has never been so cozy.