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A Rose from the Dead
A Flower Shop Mystery #6

by Kate Collins


Abby Knight is a florist who has agreed to attend a convention of funeral directors to try to drum up more business for herself. She's sharing a booth with her good friends, the Doves, who are funeral directors themselves.

The convention is run by Sybil Blount, who is not well liked, and universally known for groping every younger man in sight. So when Sybil turns up dead in a decorated casket at the convention, it is sure to lead to nothing but trouble for Abby.

It's not like Abby doesn't already have her hands full, what with fending off the prankster brothers Ross and Jess Urban, and keeping Sybil from glad-handing her boyfriend, Marco.

Now she faces disaster when her friend, Delilah Dove, is accused of murdering Sybil.

There are many characters in this brisk and funny book, including Eli who's been thrown out of the funeral business for promoting burying people in bio-degradable burlap sacks rather than caskets, and Chet Sunday, the TV personality from the Make It Easy do-it-yourself building show.

Abby is a great character. Marco is funny and sexy. The secondary characters are not mere straw constructions, but lovingly developed people.

The plot is complicated with many suspects and lots of reasons to believe any of them would have done harm to the annoying Sybil. It is resolved in a believable way, and felt satisfying in the end.

Reviews of other titles in this series

Mum's The Word #1
Slay it with Flowers #2
Dearly Depotted #3
Snipped in the Bud #4
Acts of Violets #5
A Rose from the Dead #6
Shoots to Kill #7
Night of the Living Dandelion #11
To Catch a Leaf #12
Nightshade on Elm Street #13
Seed No Evil #14

The Book

Signet / Berkley Prime Crime
December 4, 2007
Paperback
0451222415 / 978-0451222411
Mystery
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Reviewed 2007
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