Death at the Spring Plant Sale: A Gardening Mystery

Ann Ripley. Kensington Publishing Corporation, $22 (304pp) ISBN 978-1-57566-779-9

Louise Eldridge plans to cover the annual Bethesda Garden Club plant sale in Maryland for her TV show, but the shooting death of the club president, the attractive and well-bred wife of a Washington VIP, upsets the azalea cart in Death at the Spring Plant Sale: A Gardening Mystery, Ann Ripley's sixth entry (after 2002's The Christmas Garden Affair) in her appealing cozy series. Once again Louise must turn amateur sleuth in a story full of menacing incident and horticultural detail. Agent, Jane Jordan Browne.

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