This book is the winner of the Emily Toth Award. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels.

The Woman Detective: Gender and Genre

Literature & Fiction

Kathleen Gregory Klein

History & Criticism

University of Illinois Press

Bound in the publisher's original red cloth covered boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt.

Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (Twentieth Century Writers Series)

John M. Reilly

Lesley Henderson (ed)

St.James Press

Divorced after twenty-three years, garden designer Liz Clarke returns to Greenwich, Connecticut expecting to find the haven of her childhood. Her nostalgic memories are interrupted when her pregnant goddaughter discovers the bloody body of the garden tour chairwoman and hysterically calls Liz rather than 911. She shifts her focus from dirt to detecting to save Melissa from suspicion. The kitchen garden she designed for the annual tour gives Liz access to the world in which the social-climbing victim Staci Hooper made enemies. With help from her Irish lover and country music fan Sean Healey, Liz digs into motives and alibis. Was Lawrence Hooper planning to replace his current trophy wife with an even younger version-the cross-country rider, Deb Norcross? Or did his lover's sister Jean whom Staci displaced in the garden club want revenge? Maybe Staci's own lover Franco Rizoldi needed to quiet her in order to safeguard his marriage. The killer continues his deadly attacks, terrifying those Liz needs to protect, and she vows to root out the evil invading her garden. When waiting for the police to find the murderer feels slower than watching grass grow, Liz sifts through the clues and uncovers a very nasty snake in the garden indeed-one that will kill again if necessary. 
 Kathleen Gregory Klein gardens on five acres on the Ware River in Gloucester, Virginia.

Five Star First Edition Mystery - The Deadly Garden Tour

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Five Star

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