Mum's the Word (Flower Shop Mystery Series #1)

by Kate Collins

Overview

Abby Knight is the proud owner of her hometown flower shop, but a new low-cost competitor is killing her profits-and a black SUV just rammed her vintage Corvette in a hit-and-run. She's determined to track down the driver, but when the trail turns deadly, the next flower arrangement might be for her own funeral.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451213501
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/02/2004
Series:	Flower Shop Mystery Series , #1
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	496,160
Product dimensions:	4.21(w) x 6.76(h) x 0.83(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kate Collins is the New York Times bestselling author of the Flower Shop Mystery series. She grew up in a suburb of Hammond, Indiana, one block from the family home of author Jean Shepherd, whose humorous stories inspired Kate at an early age. After a stint as an elementary school teacher, Kate wrote children's short stories and historical romance novels before turning to her true passion, mystery. She lives in northwest Indiana and Key West, Florida.

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Law school dropout Abby Knight is not your typical small-business owner. Still, she's enjoying the first bloom of success as an entrepreneur and trying not to worry too much about the thorny problem of what Bloomers (her little flower shop in New Chapel, Indiana) should do about the new local business that's undercutting her prices.

When a big black SUV crunches her beloved Corvette, parked right outside her shop early one morning, cop's daughter Abby is determined to make sure that the hit-and-run driver sees the error of his ways. But soon she has to wonder if her quarry's motives for avoiding her and the police go deeper than the desire to protect his insurance rates. Could the elusive miscreant be the killer who fled a nearby crime scene only moments before her classy car met its doom? Abby's soon on the scent, gathering leads and evidence to arrange into an elaborate bouquet of wrongdoing that she plans to present to the proper authorities. Meanwhile, the villain that Abby and her allies are pursuing lays some deadly groundwork to transform her intricate arrangement into an inquisitive florist's funeral wreath.

Mum's the Word is a delightful debut for Kate Collins's Flower Shop mystery series. Sue Stone

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"Elise Arsenault has always done a good job with cozy mysteries and she does a good job with this series as well. She does some really good voices in this one." ---Books, Movies, Reviews! Oh My!

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