Pushing Up Daisies

DIVDIVPMeet Paula Holliday, a transplanted media exec who trades her stilettos for garden clogs when she makes the move from the big city to the suburbs to start a gardening business. Paula can handle deer, slugs, and the occasionalIhuman/Ipest-but she's not prepared for the mummified body she finds while restoring the gardens at Halcyon, a local landmark.BRBRCasual snooping turns serious when a body is impaled on a garden tool and one of Paula's friends is arrested for the crime. Aided by the still-hot aging rocker who owns the neighborhood greasy spoon, a wise-cracking former colleague, and a sexy Mexican laborer with a few secrets of his own, Paula digs for the truth and unearths more dirty business the town has kept buried for years.../PPB/B /P/DIV/DIVDIVDIVP"A clever mystery full of garden lore, fast-paced and engaging, with a heroine who isn't afraid to get down in the dirt."-ISeattle/IIPost-Intelligencer/I /PP"A charming debut." -ILibrary Journal/I/PP"(A) funny and entertaining first installment. May there be many more."-IKingston/IIObserver/I/PP"Quirky, original, and captivating...sure to please."-Carolyn Hart, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning author of the Death on Demand series/P/DIV/DIVDIVPBRosemary Harris/B was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has been a bookstore manager, a video producer, and a television executive. She and her husband split their time between New York City and Fairfield County, Connecticut, where she is a master gardener. Visit her Web site at www.rosemaryharris.com./P/DIVDIVDIVPBIWelcome to Springfield, Connecticut, where gardening just got a whole lot deadlier.../I/B/PPMeet Paula Holliday, a transplanted media exec who trades her stilettos for garden clogs when she makes the move from the big city