Green Trigger Fingers — John Sherwood

Celia Grant, an attractive widow, operates a small nursery and gardening service in the village of Westfield, England.

The people of Westfield -- quiet, proper, and addicted to gossip -- are shocked by the recent murder of the Emersons, who were found hacked to death in their garden with their own axe.

Then Celia makes an unscheduled visit to the Towers, a once-grand Victorian estate. Her sharp eye can't help but notice that the short May-blooming irises and the taller June-flowering ones she dug up and separated last fall are all together again, in mixed clumps! There's also a bare patch of freshly dug soil where the Alstromeria used to be. Under that soil -- several feet under, Celia discovers as she digs -- is another dead body.

Gardeners are naturally curious. So it's not too surprising that Celia Grant, professional horticulturalist, becomes Celia Grant, amateur sleuth. What is surprising is how much danger she finds herself in -- as she tries to discover who in quaint old Westfield has gone way beyond a green thumb…