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I accuse Major Mallory, in the arboretum, with the hoe! No, no, no! It was Mrs. Phillips in the rose garden with a deadly dose of herbicide!

No matter "who done it", there's little question that the gardening mystery has become popular. Nearly everyone has spent some time tilling the soil, planting their annuals and cursing the weeds that attempt to take over their garden plots. Throw in the menacing plots of your fellow human beings, and a Garden becomes a prime location for deadly deeds. Whether you're interested in historical gardening mysteries, like those solved by herbalist and medieval monk Brother Cadfael, or contemporaries, such as the stories featuring herb shop owner China Bayles or landscape designer Celia Grant, you should find something in this list to fertilize your fancy. So, plant yourself on a garden bench, and kick back with some Gardening Mysteries! Oh, and watch out for that stranger with the weed whacker!

All books in this list which are owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. Some titles not owned by the libraries are included in this list due to their classic nature, or their position as part of a series. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.

Catherine Aird	Amendment of Life [2002]
Susan Wittig Albert	The China Bayles series [Herb shop owner] -- Thyme of Death [1992] -- Witches' Bane [1993] -- Hangman's Root [1994] -- Rosemary Remembered [1995] -- Rueful Death [1996] -- Love Lies Bleeding [1997] -- Chile Death [1998] -- Lavender Lies [1999] -- Mistletoe Man [2000] -- Bloodroot [2001] -- Indigo Dying [2003] -- An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries [2003] -- A Dilly of a Death [2004] -- Dead Man's Bones [2205] -- Bleeding Hearts [2006] -- Spanish Dagger [2007] -- Nightshade [2008] -- Wormwood [2009] -- Holly Blues [2010]
John Richard Lane Anderson	Death in the Greenhouse [1978]
Nancy Atherton	Aunt Dimity and the Duke [1994]
Marion Babson	Guilty Party [1988]
Richard Barth	A Ragged Plot [1981]
M.C. Beaton	Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener [1994]
J.S. Borthwick	The Garden Plot [1997]
Edna Buchanan	Garden of Evil [1999]
Dorothy Cannell	Down the Garden Path [1985]
Taffy Cannon	Guns and Roses [2000] Tangled Roots [1995]
Agatha Christie	Murder at the Vicarage [1930] Nemesis [1971]
Jill Churchill	Mulch Ado About Nothing [2000]
Wilkie Collins	The Moonstone [1868]
Susan Conant	Ruffly Speaking [1994]
K.C. Constantine	The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes [1982]
Alisa Craig (a.k.a. Charlotte MacLeod)	The Grub-and-Stakers Series -- The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain [1981] -- The Grub-and-Stakers Quilt a Bee [1985] -- The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke [1988] -- The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn [1990] -- The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt [1993]
Marjorie Dorner	Freeze Frame [1990]
John Keith Drummond	Thy Sting, Oh Death [1985] Tis the Season to be Dying [1988]
Carola Dunn	The Winter Garden Mystery [1995]
Anthony Eglin	The Blue Rose [2004] The Lost Gardens [2006] The Water Lily Cross [2007]
Kate Ellis	The Bone Garden [2003]
Kathy Lynn Emerson	Susanna Appleton series -- Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie [1997] -- Face Down Upon an Herbal [1998] -- Face Down Among the Winchester Geese [1999] -- Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross [2000] -- Face Down Under the Wych Elm [2000] -- Face Down Before the Rebel Hooves [2001] -- Face Down Upon the Western Sea [2002] -- Face Down Below the Banqueting House [2005] -- Face Down Beside St. Anne's Well [2006] -- Face Down O'er the Border [2007]
E.X. Ferrars	Andrew Basnett - Professor of Botany -- Root of All Evil [1984] -- A Murder Too Many [1988]
Anthea Fraser	Six Proud Walkers [1988]
Mary Freeman	Deadly Nightshade [1999] Devil's Trumpet [1999] Bleeding Heart [2000] A Garden View [2002]
Frances Fyfield	Question of Guilt [1988]
Jacqueline Girdner	Murder My Deer [2000]
Rumer Godden	An Episode of Sparrows [1955]
Caroline Graham	The Killings at Badger's Drift [1987] Murder at Madingley Grange [1991]
Ann Granger	Flowers for His Funeral [1994] Say it With Poison [1991]
Annie Griffin	Love and the Single Corpse [2000]
Joan Hadley (a.k.a. Joan Hess)	Night-Blooming Cereus [1986] The Deadly Ackee [1988]
Jean Hager	Blooming Murder [1994]
Karen Harper	The Poyson Garden [1999] The Thorne Maze [2003]
Janis Harrison	The Bretta Solomon series -- Roots of Murder [1999] -- Murder Sets Seed [2000] -- Lilies That Fester [2001] -- A Deadly Bouquet [2002] -- Reap a Wicked Harvest [2004] -- Bindweed [2005]
Reginald Hill	Deadheads [1983]
Muriel Resnik Jackson	The Garden Club [1992]
Susan Kenney	Garden of Malice [1983]
Graham Landrum	The Garden Club Mystery [1998]
Emma Lathen	Green Grow the Dollars [1982]
Elizabeth Lemarchand	Suddenly While Gardening [1978] Change for the Worse [1980]
Charlotte MacLeod	Peter Shandy series - Agricultural Professor -- Rest You Merry [1978] -- The Curse of the Giant Hogweed [1985] -- Something in the Water [1994]
David Manuel	A Matter of Roses [1999]
Ngaio Marsh	Grave Mistake [1978]
Sujata Massey	The Flower Master [1998]
Stefanie Matteson	Murder at Teatime [1991]
Mary McMullen	Grave Without Flowers [1983]
Barbara Michaels	The Dancing Floor [1997]
Gladys Mitchell	The Death-Cap Dancers [1981] Spotted Hemlock [1985]
Skye Kathleen Moody	Blue Poppy [1997]
B.J. Morison	Champagne and a Gardener [1982]
Marcia Muller	There's Something in a Sunday [1989]
Donna Huston Murray	Final Arrangements [1996]
Beverley Nichols	The Moonflower [1955] No Man's Street [1954]
Ellis Peters	The Brother Cadfael series - Medieval herbalist monk -- A Morbid Taste for Bones [1977] -- One Corpse Too Many [1980] -- Monk's Hood [1981] -- Saint Peter's Fair [1981] -- The Leper of Saint Giles [1982] -- The Virgin in the Ice [1983] -- The Sanctuary Sparrow [1983] -- Devil's Novice [1984] -- Dead Man's Ransom [1985] -- The Pilgrim of Hate [1985] -- An Excellent Mystery [1985] -- The Raven in the Foregate [1986] -- The Rose Rent [1986] -- The Hermit of Eyton Forest [1988] -- The Confession of Brother Haluin [1988] -- A Rare Benedictine [1990] -- The Heretic's Apprentice [1990] -- The Potter's Field [1990] -- Summer of the Danes [1991] -- Holy Thief [1993] -- Brother Cadfael's Penance [1994]
Ralph Peters	The Devil's Garden [1998]
Ian Rankin	The Hanging Garden [1998]
Cynthia Riggs	Deadly Nightshade [1999]
Ann Ripley	The Gardening Mystery series -- Mulch [1994] -- Death of a Garden Pest [1996] -- Death of a Political Plant [1998] -- Garden Tour Affair [1999] -- The Perennial Killer [2000] -- Harvest of Murder [2001] -- The Christmas Garden Affair [2002] -- Death at the Spring Plant Sale [2003] -- Summer Garden Murder [2005] -- Death in the Orchid Garden [2006]
Lora Roberts	Murder Crops Up [1998]
Elliot Roosevelt	Murder in the Rose Garden [1989]
Rebecca Rothenberg	The Bulrush Murders [1991] The Dandelion Murders [1994] The Shy Tulip Murders [1996] Tumbleweed Murders [2001]
Betty Rowlands	A Little Gentle Sleuthing [1990]
Beth Saulnier	Bad Seed [2002]
Dorothy Sayers	Busman's Honeymoon [1937]
John Sherwood	The Celia Grant series - Landscape Designer -- Green Trigger Fingers [1984] -- A Botanist at Bay [1985] -- The Mantrap Garden [1986] -- Flowers of Evil [1987] -- Menacing Groves [1988] -- A Bouquet of Thorns [1989] -- The Sunflower Plot [1990] -- The Hanging Garden [1992] -- Creeping Jenny [1993] -- Bones Gather No Moss [1994]
Sheila Simonson	Larkspur [1990]
Rex Stout	Black Orchids [1942]
Heather Webber	Hoe Lot of Trouble [2004] Trouble in Spaces [2005]
Stuart Woods	Orchid Beach [1998]
Deborah Woodworth	Sins of a Shaker Summer [1999]
Nancy Means Wright	Stolen Honey [2002]

Compiled June 2007 sdc

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