Three Dirty Women and the Bitter Brew — Julie Wray Herman

Unfortunately nothing is coming up roses at the twelfth annual Small Landscapers Convention in Savannah, Georgia. Korine McFaile, one of the green-thumbed partners at Three Dirty Women Landscaping, Inc., finds herself forced to share a hotel room with fellow conventioneer and business rival Dodie Halloran, a nasty woman who threatens to ruin poor Korine's trip. Until murder stops her cold.

The weapon was an oleander-laced Bloody Mary -- the killer cocktail of someone who knows poisonous plants. Korine is now the prime suspect, since many witnessed the public display of hostilities between the two women. But what nobody fathomed was the misplaced animosity Dodie had for Korine, a grudge that went back years. Digging up dirt is Korine's area of expertise; but she never planned to unearth a garden of desperate secrets, dark passions and dangerousc alliances growing right under her own feet.