DEADHEAD AND BURIED
An English Cottage Garden Mystery #1
H.Y. Hanna
Wisheart Press
February 16, 2019
There are times when one needs to leave all the strife and noise of daily life in the 21st century behind and dive into a novel without any of that sort of discord.Thankfully, H.Y. Hanna is prolific and always provides an escape, The first in her new series, Deadhead and Buried. Poppy Lancaster is a London city girl, who is all alone in the world after the death of her free-spirited but irresponsible mother. Her job is a dead-end, her boss is a harridan, and her only caring friend is her kindly landlady. Imagine her surprise when she receives a solicitor's letter with the news that she has inherited a property in the countryside from a grandmother she never knew.
At last, it seems that Poppy will be able to sell the property, have some money to spare, travel a bit and perhaps find her father, who she also never knew. Upon her arrival though, she finds a run-down cottage, a defunct garden business and a body buried in a shallow grave. And perhaps a whole new life, far from what she has ever envisioned for herself.
Deadhead and Buried is a charming and well-written cozy mystery with a likeable heroine in Poppy, and plenty of quirky characters. Poppy has an elderly "mad scientist" and a handsome but curmudgeonly crime writer for close neighbors, and a previously unknown cousin who thinks that he should have inherited. The bossy, talkative ginger cat, Oren, who adopts Poppy as his own adds to the plentiful humor. I am looking forward to the next book in the series, Silent Bud Deadly.
Disclosure: A review copy of this book was sent to me by the author. All of the above opinions are my own.
RATING- 4 Stars
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