Flower farmer Emma Justice's life is firmly rooted in Lutz, Texas, where one morning while delivering flowers, she stumbles upon a prominent citizen. Dead.
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Flower farmer Emma Justice's life is firmly rooted in Lutz, Texas, where one morning while delivering flowers, she stumbles upon a prominent citizen. Dead.
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Emma Justice has taken her passion for flowers and fills her days as a flower farmer, tending her gardens and making deliveries all over Lutz, Texas. That is until a well-known citizen is killed and one of Emma's friends is the top suspect in her death.
Before the police even finish investigating the crime scene or talk to anyone Emma is snapping pictures with her phone and aggravating the chief of police. Questioned and released Emma goes to her happy place, her garden.
Pulling weeds relieves stress for her and also gives her time to think over what happened. Within minutes she decides she has read plenty of mysteries, the least she could do is try to solve the case and save her friend. But while she is digging through clues and weeding out lies she is putting a target on her own back. You can bank on the killer trying to stop her. She could be pushing up daisies in her own garden soon.
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Lutz, Texas is a great little small town with a wide variety of residents. The perfect place to set a cozy mystery series.
Emma was a little bit annoying at first for both me and the chief of police but she soon started to grow on me. Her heart was in the right place, she was just a little overzealous jumping into her own investigation of the demise of Willow Moore. She is a new empty nester with too much time on her hands but she does have good instincts even though she sometimes leaps before she thinks. Her friend, Brett owns the local coffee shop but he has been missing from the place for a few days. His friends, Jake and his sister Celia have taken over the shop until he returns. Jake is an interesting character. Ex-military who seems to be dealing with some PTSD. He quickly befriends Emma and really tries to keep her out of trouble. Police Chief Young also tells her to stay out of his case but she doesn't heed his warning at all. All these characters were introduced well and developed nicely by the end of the story with plenty of room as the series continues.
I love that Emma ends up adopting a lovable golden retriever named Cowboy. There is nothing better than a dog to help us empty nesters deal with our kids leaving home. Emma and Cowboy have a bit of a traumatic start but they both needed each other and Cowboy quickly finds a place in both Emma's home and her heart.
The mystery was very well-plotted out. It was much more involved than I originally thought it to be. One person alerted my spidey sense early on but I needed much more information. The clues did fall into place for me before they did for Emma. That set up a very dramatic showdown with skilled thinking by Emma in an extremely terrifying situation.
Weeding Out Lies has set the Texas Flower Farmer Cozy Mystery Series off to an exceptional start with some charming characters, an intriguing mystery, and a small town filled with possibilities for more mayhem and murder.Ã? I am curious and excited to see what Ms. Layton has planned for the people of Lutz next.
