Evidence in the Echinacea: 5 (Lovely Lethal Gardens)

Riches to rags. ... Controlling to chaos. ... But murder ... well maybe ...Doreens success at solving murders has hit the newswires across the country but all Doreen wants is to be left alone. She has antiques to get to the auction house and a relationship with Corporal Mack Moreau to work out not to mention a new friendship to nurture with Penny Doreens first friend in Kelowna and Doreen doesnt want to ruin things.But when a surprise accusation wont leave Doreen alone-about Pennys late husband Georges death and made by one of the men Doreen helped put away-she thinks that maybe it cant hurt to just take a quick look into her new friends past.Before Doreen knows it shes juggling a cold case a closed case and a possible mercy killing ... along with cultivating her relationships with Penny Mack and Doreens pets: Mugs the basset hound; Goliath the Maine coon cat and Thaddeus the far-too-talkative African gray parrot. And while Mack should be used to Doreens antics by now when she dives into yet another of his cases its becoming increasingly hard to take ...