Bones in the Begonias
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No harm done.
Spit. Spit.
She froze, wondering where to look, wondering if she could have mistaken that sound, but it came again. Spit, spit. Followed by a cry.
That all came from the house. “Mugs, let’s go.” She raced to her car, hopped in, and drove back to the garden store, where she called Mack from the safety of her car in the parking lot.
“What?”
“I think I heard gunshots,” she said without preamble.
“What the hell? Where?”
She winced as she told him about the couple’s argument and taking pictures of them and their vehicles and then following them.
“You did what?” he roared.
“Okay, okay. I know I shouldn’t have followed them,” she said, “but it doesn’t change the fact I think I heard gunshots.”
“It’s also quite possible you heard something other than gunshots,” he said. “Like a car backfiring.”
“Yes, maybe,” she said. “Maybe, maybe, maybe. But maybe not.”
He groaned. “Fine. What’s the address?”
“I don’t know the house number,” she said. “But it’s on Hawthorne Street, the third house in from the corner—on the left side if you’re coming from the Kelowna sign.”
“Oh, that’s what you were doing there.”
“I had to see how big the beds were. How else could I give a decent bid?” She hoped he would believe that was her main reason for going there in the first place.
“I’ll take a look,” he said. “But you go home. Will you do that?”
“I will.”
“Did you bring any of the animals with you?”
“Just Mugs.” She reached over to pet the basset hound’s head. Mugs let out a corresponding woof into the interior of her car.
“At least you’ve got him, although I don’t know that he’ll be much protection against an attack.”
“As you well know,” she snapped, “he’s great protection—when needed.”
“Maybe,” he said. “But maybe not. I think you guys are a comedy of errors.”
“Okay, that’s possible,” she said defiantly, a trifle hurt. “But it works. We’re all family.” And on that note she hung up. She reached over and gave Mugs a big cuddle. “Let’s go home. Back to the rest of the family.”
Was there ever a better word? Nope. And she couldn’t think of a better place she wanted to be right now.
This concludes Book 2 of Lovely Lethal Gardens: Bones in the Begonias.
Read about Corpse in the Carnations: Lovely Lethal Gardens, Book 3
Lovely Lethal Gardens:
Corpse in the Carnations
(Book #3)
A new cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Follow gardener and amateur sleuth Doreen Montgomery—and her amusing and mostly lovable cat, dog, and parrot—as they catch murderers and solve crimes in lovely Kelowna, British Columbia.
Riches to rags. … Chaos calms. … Crime quiets. … But does it really?
After getting involved in two murder cases in the short time she’s lived in picturesque Kelowna, divorcee and gardener Doreen Montgomery has developed a reputation almost as notorious as her Nan’s. The only way to stop people from speculating, is to live a life of unrelieved boredom until the media and the neighbors forget about her. And Doreen aims to do just that with a tour of Kelowna’s famed Carnation Gardens. Plants, more plants, and nothing whatsoever that anyone could object to.
But when she sees a fight between a beautiful young woman and her boyfriend, she can’t help but be concerned. Concerned enough that she follows the couple out of the parking lot and through town. And when gunshots interrupt the placid afternoon, it’s too late to worry about how her nemesis, Corporal Mack Moreau, will feel about her getting involved in yet another of his cases.
With bodies turning up in the carnations, and a connection to a cold case of a missing child from long ago, Doreen has her hands full, not least with trying to keep her involvement in the investigations a secret from her Nan, Mack Moreau, and especially the media. But someone’s keeping up with Doreen’s doings… and that someone can’t afford for her to find the answers to the questions she’s asking.
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BONES IN THE BEGONIAS: LOVELY LETHAL GARDENS, BOOK 2
Dale Mayer
Valley Publishing
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