DEATH OF A GARDEN PEST

Unearthing murderers is becoming the specialty of amateur gardener Louise Eldridge. Her horticultural skills have garnered her a role on a public television show. She has cultivated a controversial organic gardening approach that delights environmentalist viewers and alarms chemical-using traditionalists, drawing swarms of protesters, mounds of nasty mail, and absolutely fabulous ratings. But the bloom of success fades suddenly when the society maven that Louise replaced, violently turns on her and picks a fight in the studio. Later when she winds up dead, poisoned by pesticides, Louise is suspect number one. In trying to clear herself, Louise finds the police and the murderer hot on her trail. And if she isn’t careful, she could end up planted six-feet under…