Arsenic in the Azaleas: 1 (Lovely Lethal Gardens)

A new cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Follow gardener and amateur sleuth Doreen Montgomery-and her amusing and mostly lovable cat dog and parrot-as they catch murderers and solve crimes in lovely Kelowna British Columbia.Riches to rags. ... Controlling to chaos. ... But murder ... seriously?After her ex-husband leaves her high and dry former socialite Doreen Montgomerys chance at a new life comes in the form of her grandmother Nans dilapidated old house in picturesque Kelowna ... and the added job of caring for the animals Nan couldnt take into assisted living with her: Thaddeus the loquacious African gray parrot with a ripe vocabulary and his buddy Goliath a monster-size cat with an equally monstrous attitude.Its the new start Doreen and her beloved basset hound Mugs desperately need. But just as things start to look up for Doreen Goliath the cat and Mugs the dog find a human finger in Nans overrun garden.And not just a finger. Once the police start digging the rest of the body turns up and turns out to be connected to an old unsolved crime.With her grandmother as the prime suspect Doreen soon finds herself stumbling over clues and getting on Corporal Mack Moreaus last nerve as she does her best to prove her beloved Nan innocent of murder.