The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies — Susan Wittig Albert

From the national bestselling author of the China Bayles Mysteries comes the second novel in a new series featuring the ladies of a garden club in Darling, Alabama, who also dabble in digging through clues -- the Darling Dahlias.

As Darling's town librarian is fond of saying: "'Naked ladies' is not a respectable name for a plant." A lily by any other name would certainly smell as sweet -- and look just as beautiful as the naked ladies decorating Miss Hamer's lawn ..

It seems Miss Hamer's house may also be home to naked ladies of a different sort when rumors sprout that the elderly recluse's visiting niece and her friend are actually the Naughty and Nice Sisters from the Ziegfeld Frolic, known for dancing nearly naked.

When a well-dressed man from Chicago arrives, asking about the mysterious ladies, the Dahlias begin to suspect it may be more than modesty that's causing both women to lie low.

Someone is covering up something sinister ...