Dragonwell Dead — Laura Childs

Each spring, Charleston's upper crust opens their sprawling gardens to the public for the Spring Plantation Ramble, an occasion for flower shows, rare-plant auctions, and contagious spring fever. Although Theodosia Browning barely knows a Phalaenopsis from a bog rose, she still enjoys the Ramble, especially since she can promote her Indigo Tea Shop and her latest concoction, Dragonwell Sweet Tea. But the festivities come to a screeching halt when commodities broker Mark Congdon wins a bid for a rare monkey-face orchid -- and promptly dies. It looks like a simple heart attack, but both Theo and his widow suspect that someone purposely turned his green thumb blue...