Snipped in the Bud (Flower Shop Mysteries, No. 4) by Kate Collins
By Kate Collins
While a person orders a black rose for Abby's previous legislations institution nemesis, Professor "Snapdragon" Puffer, her plans for a fast supply are foiled whilst he catches her placing the bloom on his table and sends it instantly into the trash. So she heads again in to retrieve her dignity and her flower-only to discover the rose now adorning a lifeless professor, and herself the top suspect...
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The phone rang. “Excuse me a minute,” I said and turned to pick it up before Lottie could get it. No offense to Grace, but I wasn’t in the mood to hear from any of King Henry’s parts, even the more interesting ones. It was Marco. “Are you all right? ” “I’m fine. I just got back to the shop. ” “Whoa. ” I took a quick glance over my shoulder and saw Grace waiting patiently. “This might take a while,” I whispered to her. The bell over the door chimed, so she left. “I found the body, Marco. ” “Wait.
I said we discussed it. ” “So tell me something. ” There was something about the way he asked that question that made me suddenly cautious. ” He tapped his pencil on the table. ” “A priest? ” He took in a huge chestful of air and let it out again. “What do you say we just get this over with. ” I shrugged and sat back. ” Anything unusual? I summoned up the memory, but I had been so totally focused on getting the flower that I hadn’t really paid much attention to anything around me. And then, after seeing Reed, I wasn’t exactly thinking straight.
My hair was a cosmic magnet. “Sing a Willie Nelson song,” I said. ” Lottie and Grace were about as opposite as two people could be. Lottie Dombowski was a hefty, forty-five-year-old Kentuckian with a gift for floral design, and a love of countryand-western music and anything deep fried. Lottie took life as it came and rarely grew flustered. Grace, on the other hand, was a slender, even-tempered Brit who enjoyed classical music and expertly brewed tea. Her job was to run the coffee-and-tea-parlor side of Bloomers.