The Night-Blooming Lie: A Botanical Cozy Mystery

About the book

A rare bloom. A sudden death. A town full of secrets. In the charming town of Bramblewick, plant shop owner Tansy Pendrell knows how to coax the truth out of any wilting fern—but human secrets are a completely different species. When the whole town gathers for a botanical miracle—the beloved night-blooming cereus finally opening, weeks late, in the cold dark of October—the festive hush shatters. As three hundred neighbors stand in pitch darkness to watch the flower open, Ambrose Fairweather, the beloved town archivist, collapses on the archive steps and dies. It looks like a weak heart—until the truth comes back: foxglove, slipped into a cup poured in front of the whole town, timed to the ten sweetest minutes of the bloom. When the police charge Mabel Porter—Bramblewick's unstoppable gossip and Tansy's dearest friend—the case lands in impossible hands. The town's detective is Mabel's own son, recused and barred, and he hands the investigation to Tansy with one condition: follow the paper, wherever it grows. Armed with her botanical expertise and an eye for details others miss, Tansy digs into the town's oldest story—and unearths a sixty-year-old secret that threatens to uproot Bramblewick's entire founding history. With the real killer pruning the evidence and her own certainty growing wild, Tansy must race to find the truth before the town's darkest secret buries them all. If you love twisting plots, charming small towns, and sharp-witted amateur sleuths, you won't be able to put down the third installment of The Tansy Pendrell Mysteries. Grab your copy today and untangle the vines of The Night-Blooming Lie!