Dearly Depotted (Flower Shop Mystery Series #3)

by Kate Collins

Overview

Abby has her hands full at her cousin Jillian's wedding as florist, bridesmaid, and grandma-sitter-all while wearing a hideous dress. Then the groom's 90-year-old grandmother goes missing from the reception. On her search, Abby finds the corpse of guest Jack Snyder. Now she must find out who killed Jack in the pulpit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451215857
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/05/2005
Series:	Flower Shop Mystery Series , #3
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	222,353
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kate Collins is the New York Times bestselling author of the Flower Shop Mystery series. She grew up in a suburb of Hammond, Indiana, one block from the family home of author Jean Shepherd, whose humorous stories inspired Kate at an early age. After a stint as an elementary school teacher, Kate wrote children's short stories and historical romance novels before turning to her true passion, mystery. She lives in northwest Indiana and Key West, Florida.

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
In Dearly Depotted, the third book in Kate Collins's Flower Shop Mystery saga (Mum's the Word, Slay It with Flowers), Abby Knight -- the new owner of Bloomers florists -- is having a Fourth of July from Hell. A reluctant bridesmaid in her drama queen cousin's wedding, Abby must do the flowers for the pretentious gala, wear a dress that makes her look like a clown, babysit a wandering grandma...and find out who murdered a wedding crasher!

Abby's flighty cousin Jillian has jilted four men at the altar already -- so, as the wedding approaches, stress levels are understandably high for everyone involved. For Abby this is especially true: Not only is she forced to wear a hideous dress and work overtime as emergency analyst for the would-be runaway bride; her "weasel of an ex-fiancé" is the best man. But, against the odds, Jillian makes it to the altar, and the wedding goes off without a hitch. That is, until Abby finds the body of Jack Snyder, an ex-con mysteriously dressed in a waiter's uniform, behind the minister's platform in the gazebo. With the help of hunky restaurateur Marco Salvare and her assistants Grace and Lottie, Abby tries to weed out the real killer from a multitude of thorny suspects.

Collins's Dearly Depotted is everything a good mystery should be: a compelling narrative with an interesting cast of characters (and suspects!) and a lovable protagonist whom readers can empathize with -- all with a shocker of a conclusion guaranteed to wow. Paul Goat Allen

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