Cute mystery/detective story. Abby has a lot of guts to go through what she goes through. It's nice to see someone stick to their guns and not get intimidated! Fun read.

Cute mystery loaded with interesting people. Parts are laugh-out-loud funny. After reading this one, you'll want to continue on with the next book in the series.

1st in flower shop mysteries. Enjoyed. Nice cozy read. Looking forward to the series.

Excellent 1st in a series. Fun characters, good read. Will read others to watch the characters develop. Love the cat Simon and the love interest Marco is hunky.

An engaging first book in the series with an interesting cast of characters. Abby gets herself in a " thorny" predicament when she meddles in a recent murder and it takes some pape-turning action to get herself out of it. I would highly recommend this book and I will be looking for the next in the series.

Great first book.
Easy to get to know the people in the book..and become a new favorite series before the end of the book.

As fresh as a daisy with a bouquet of irresistible characters.-Elaine Viets, author of the Dead-End Job Mysteries

"I don't meddle, honest! But can I help it if my nose for injustice is as keen as my green thumb? Now I, Abby Knight, law school dropout, am the proud new owner of Bloomers, my hometown flower shop. I'm devoted to making my business grow, but I'm no shrinking violet if someone needs my help to right a wrong-even if that person is already dead..."
An engaging debut with a spirited sleuth, quirky sidekicks, and page-turning actions-Nancy J. Cohen, author of Bad Hair Day Mysteries.

Loved the characters and the setting. Enjoyed the visual imagery and the adventure! Highly recommend!

First in the series. I loved it!! Abby's owns a flower shop and gets involved in a mystery (after her car is hit and a dead body is found around the corner). She gets help from Marco - ex-cop, now PI and owns the bar down the street. This was a fun and enjoyable book. I look forward to reading more in this series.

First in the series... can't wait to read the next ones

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I really enjoyed this book, despite the heroine's occassional Too-Stupid-Too-Live moment. Good mystery with interesting characters. I will definitely continue with the next book and hope the heroine gets smarter. But even if she doesn't, the supporting characters are great enough to keep coming back.

okay

Fun, easy book to read. The characters all have their quirks, which make the book more entertaining. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.

Title: Mum's the Word
Author: Kate Collins
ISBN: 0451213505/Signet
Protagonist: Abby Knight, owner of Bloomers, a flower shop
Setting: present-day; New Chapel, a small northwest Indiana college town
Series: #1 Flower Shop Mysteries
Rating: DNF

First Line: Most people hate Mondays.

Abby Knight, daughter of an ex-cop and a social-climbing mother, has flunked out of law school and invested the rest of her savings in a flower shop called Bloomers in her hometown in northwestern Indiana. Bright one Monday morning, she travels to work in her beloved 1960 banana yellow Corvette and parks it within view of Bloomers. Seconds later, a man runs out of an alley, jumps into his SUV, fires it up and rams right into the front end of Abby's 'vette. Shortly after that, she learns that a young man was murdered in an apartment down the same alley the man came running out. "I saw the murderer!" Abby shouts. (Hey, it can happen. My mother saw bank robbers changing cars in a parking lot across the street from the feed store where she was working once.) Abby goes to the police and is less than satisfied with their response. This being one of those cozy mysteries, you know that she's not going to be able to keep out of the investigation.

I thought I was in the mood for a cozy. Evidently it wasn't this one. By page 69 when I learned where the murder victim worked, I had it all figured out. Since none of the characters were grabbing me at the time, I flipped to the end of the book to see if my powers of deduction were still intact. They are. Abby may be right down someone else's alley, but she wasn't in mine.

I really liked this book. I think for a first-in-series, it does very well introducing the characters and setting, and by the end of the book, I was ready to pick up the next one!

So maybe Abby's life isn't the bed of roses she was hoping it would be. She adores her job, but a new low-cost competitor is killing her profits
and a black SUV just rammed her vintage Corvette in a hit-and-run. Determined to track down the driver, she accepts the help of hunky ex-cop Marco Salvare. But their budding relationship is threatened when the trail turns deadly. Now Abby is caught in a tangle of menacing phone calls, police corruption, and murderous road rage. If she's not careful, the next flower arrangement might be for her own funeral....

First in the series. I want to read more.

First in a series...an entertaining mystery!

A great start to a new series. It reminds me of Stephanie Plum just a little bit. Enjoyed it a lot.

1st book in theflower shop mystery series

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