Garden Plot — Kristen McKendry

Finding a body in the garden of her Whole-Life Wellness Center has left social worker Erin Kilpatrick more than a little annoyed. It can't be good for business to have a dead body in the bush beans -- particularly if the one who's been killed is a paying patient -- correction: guest. Even though her first thought was to hide the corpse, Erin does feel sorry for the guest who has checked out permanently from her rehab inn. But her pity turns to alarm when she and Detective Liam Harris dig a little deeper to discover that maybe the dead man isn't who they think he is. And now she has to deal with a missing guest and a killer on the loose.

Rattled by memories of her husband's death three years prior, Erin sets about to discover the connection between the dead man and her absent guest. But while conducting her own investigation, she's also got to juggle a rehab center full of eccentric guests, annoyingly amorous renovators, an enigmatic staff, her struggling teenage daughter, and an orphaned dog. And her keen eye and out-of-boundaries sleuthing catch the attention of Detective Harris in more ways than one, adding the complications of romance to this delightful and dangerous case of fraud, impersonation, and, of course, murder.