Rebecca Rothenberg

A Botanical Mystery

1 - The Bulrush Murders (Dec-1991)
2 - The Dandelion Murders (Sep-1994)
3 - The Shy Tulip Murders (May-1996)

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  The Bulrush Murders
  

  • Dec-1991
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Botanical Mystery - 1
  

  At the Cutting Edge Agua Dulce -- sweet water.... Only a few months ago the words would have meant little to Claire Sharples, shut away in the ivory tower of her microbiology lab at M.I.T. Now, transplanted in California's San Joaquin Valley, upro...

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  The Dandelion Murders
  

  • Sep-1994
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Botanical Mystery - 2
  

  Adjusting to a new job at a California agricultural station, microbiologist Claire Sharples discovers some unauthorized pesticide usage at a local vineyard and a body in an irrigation ditch....

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  The Shy Tulip Murders
  

  • May-1996
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Botanical Mystery - 3
  

  Where have all the flowers gone? Calochortus invenustus subspecies westii--an exquisitely beautiful wildflower better known as the shy tulip--may he all that stands between a precious California forest and the logging industry. Botanist Claire Sha...

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  Sharples Botanical Mystery
  

  • Sep-2001
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  Passion, greed, deceit, and murder surface when plant pathologist Claire Sharples discovers a skeleton buried beside the Kern River and finds herself drawn into events of a half-century earlier. Set in California's Central Valley, this evocative myst...

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  The Tumbleweed Murders
  

  • Sep-2001
  • / Suspense
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  Passion, greed, deceit, and murder surface when plant pathologist Claire Sharples discovers a skeleton buried beside the Kern River and finds herself drawn into events of a half-century earlier. Set in California's Central Valley, this evocative myst...

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