Search - Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death (Three Dirty Women, Bk 1)

About 3 women in a landscaping business who uncover a corpse in a client's garden. He was the ex-husband of one of the partners, but the client was his girlfriend.

I hope another is in the works by this author. I enjoyed this book very much. Quick, easy, humerous.

The Three Dirty Women are three friends, who have a professional landscaping company. They are hired to re-landscape Susannah Graham's yard in honor of the coming nuptials of her daughter and the nephew of one of the dirty women.

While digging in an azalea bed, the body of Amilou's philandering almost ex-husband is found. Who planted him there? Janie's husband, J.J. is the police chief of Pine Grove, and, of course, with a bit of help from the Three Women he investigates, and uncovers the murderer, but not before a second body is discovered.

The beginning is a bit rough, as is to be expected with a first novel, but Julie Wray Herman finds her stride well before the middle of the book. The characters are endearing. The small town ambience is obvious in that everyone is either related to, or went to school with, or is friendly with, everyone else, whether directly part of the story or not.

You'll never feel quite the same about digging in a flower bed after you've read this book. The characters in the story feel like people you know, and the whodunit part of this mystery was as mesmerizing as a tennis match. First you'd KNOW if it was this suspect. Then you'd be sure it was THAT one. Then you wouldn't be sure of anything.

Guess that's what a mystery is all about it is pulled it off nicely and I wanted more.