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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1983
  • Latest Book:
    December 2018
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Full Series List in Order

A Celia Grant Mystery

1 - Green Trigger Fingers (Dec-1984)
2 - A Botanist at Bay (1985)
3 - The Mantrap Garden (Aug-1986)
4 - Flowers of Evil (Nov-1987)
5 - Menacing Groves (Dec-1988)
6 - A Bouquet of Thorns (Aug-1989)
7 - The Sunflower Plot (Apr-1991)
8 - The Hanging Garden (Jan-1993)
9 - Creeping Jenny (Dec-1993)
10 - Bones Gather No Moss (Dec-1994)

Book List in Order: 16 titles




  • Celia Grant, an attractive widow, operates a small nursery and gardening service in the village of Westfield, England. The people of Westfield -- quiet, proper, and addicted to gossip -- are shocked by the recent murder of the Emersons, who were f...



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    Celia Grant, botanist and amateur sleuth, is on her way to New Zealand, where her daughter is about to have a baby. She also plans, at the request of her friend the Duchess Hermione, to look for Uncle Bertie, Lord Albert Melton, whose strange disa...




  • Cella Grant does not have time for another commitment. But when this charming botanist and amateur sleuth extraordinaire sees the disarray at Monk's Mead, the famous English garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll, she has no choice but to become its ...



  • It was all very well for brilliant textile designer Richard Galliant to appear half-drunk at minor public functions, but turning up bombed to meet the Princess of Wales--and trying to embrace her--is a faux pas that makes international news. Garde...



  • From day one of her Italian garden tour, botanist Celia Grant's sleuthing intuition tells her that the trip will be no bed of roses. For starters, Lady Carstairs's camera has been stolen, someone's trying to drug Celia, and two fellow tou...




  • When gardening expert and amateur sleuth Celia Grant accepts a commision at the country estate of Clintbury to design a fake Elizabethan garden for an eccentric client, she finds herself caught up in a household permeated with deception, intrigue, an...







  • English horticulturalist Celia Grant becomes ensnared in the intrigue involving a young seductress, a radical environmental protection group, and a businessman who is furious over his wife's exclusion from the Melbury Village Garden Society...



  • Gardener and sleuth Celia Grant investigates the disappearance of a botanist and moss expert who is found murdered near the elegant French chateau of the de Fleury family, applying her wit, charm, and horticultural skills to the case...



  • Celia Grant has a commission to redesign the gardens at Winthrop Court, but she finds it is not a happy place. But the worst is yet to come when there is a particularly unpleasant murder, and Celia finds herself offering moral support to the widow an...



  • The Jeffries Affair by John Sherwood For years they were best friends. For decades they chose to remain estranged. Now Bryan Jeffries has contacted Matt DiGrande to get reacquainted. The idea excites Matt, but it also sends up showers of red flags. ...



  • This is the story of a little Moose named Charlie who lives at the North Pole and dreams of flying with Santa's sleigh team. Convinced his brown fur and antlers make him just like a flying Reindeer...and with a determination to help Santa deliv...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Sherwood has published 16 books.

John Sherwood does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Charlie...The Merry Christmoose, was published in December 2018.

The first book by John Sherwood, Death at the Bbc, was published in October 1983.

Yes. John Sherwood has 1 series.