Animal, Vegetable, Murder — Judy Dailey

Animal Vegetable Murder is a charming and laugh-out-loud start to Judy Dailey s new mystery series set on an urban farm in Seattle. The aptly named Sunny Day Burnett a passionate gardener turns amateur sleuth to save the farm. She deftly deals with rogue chickens wayward pole beans and a killer with a surprisingly sympathetic agenda. Fix yourself a bowl of fresh organic veggies and enjoy.

Sunny Day Burnett juggles geriatric chickens corpses and a cranky Scottish policeman in this charming mystery set on an urban farm in Seattle.

Gathering eggs for breakfast Sunny discovers a neighbor face down and dead in a patch of Swiss chard. Worse yet the murdered man is clutching a photograph of Sunny s recently deceased husband wearing little more than a pink feather boa and red stilettos. Stunned Sunny hides the picture and her husband s appalling fashion sense from the police but she can t hide herself from a killer more voracious than a gray garden slug. Soon long-buried secrets are popping up like dandelions. Sunny must resolve her past if she wants a future. But time is running out and the day of harvest is near.