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Snipped in the Bud (Flower Shop Mysteries, No. 4) by Kate Collins
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Kate Collins Edition: Mass Market Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2006-05-02 ISBN: 0451218310 Number of pages: 304 Publisher: Signet Product features: - ISBN13: 9780451218315
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Book Reviews of Snipped in the Bud (Flower Shop Mysteries, No. 4)Book Review: Murder At The Law School Summary: 5 Stars
Abby Knight is nervous. She's delivering a black rose to her old law school nemesis, Professor Puffer. Sure she could have had someone else delivery the order, but she refuses to let the fact that he terrified her in her short term at law school keep her from doing her job.
Things didn't start out well, when she almost runs him over in her car and then while trying to sneak the flower on his desk he walks in and catches her. Yelling and screaming at her, he throws the flower in his trash and sends her running out of the room where she runs into another professor, Carlton Reed, who had recently had her arrested at an animal rights protest.
Making it safely to her car, Abby decides that she wasn't going to leave a perfectly good flower die in the Professor's trash can, so she sneaks back up to pluck it out and finds Carlton Reed dead in Professor's Puffer's chair with one of the Professor's signature pencils stuck in his neck.
Now things are really a mess as Abby realizes that she is at the top of the police's list of suspects. (So what if she had forgot to mention she had handled the pencils earlier, just because the one used in the murder had her fingerprints on it didn't make her a killer, did it?)
You would think being suspected of murder would be the worse thing that could happen to you, but unfortunately for Abby, that distinction falls on her cousin Jillian, who in the last story Abby spent most of the time convincing that she really, really, really wanted to get married. Jillian has left her husband on the honeymoon and has moved in with Abby and her roommate Nikki.
It's up to Abby, to find out who killed Carlton Reed, who is stealing pets from the neighborhood, and can she get Jillian to go back to her husband, or at least to move out of her apartment. With the help of her "boyfriend" Marco Salvare - owner of "Down The Hatch" bar and grill, Abby sets out to solve the mystery before she ends up in prison herself.
Highlights:
Abby and Marco. Marco is a former cop and instead of always telling Abby to stay out of investigating, he actually encourages and helps her all he can. Being a former cop, he still has contacts with the police department and they make a great team.
Abby's flower shop employee's. These women are always willing to help Abby in her investigations, which usually consists of them having to do all the work at the shop, as Abby can't show her face due to all the reporters hanging out in front.
Abby's disguises: Due to all the reporters, Abby has to resort to disguises to get around town and do her investigations. Unfortunately, she is relying on her cousin Jillian to dress her up.
A very good mystery which reaches out in several different directions, causing Abby to suspect a lot of people of the crime. Abby solves it by really investigating, discovering information and following up on it, not just having the killer announce, "it's me, I did it."
Jillian - the runaway honeymoon bride. She was exasperating in the last book and you want to smack her upside the head in this one as well.
Lowlights: Only minor ones.
Not enough of the flower shop employee's, they weren't used in investigating this time, only to cover the shop while Abby did all the investigating.
Abby's mother's creations. Abby's mother is into creating art and the pieces she has unloaded at the flower shop to sell are a riot. Nothing outrageous this time around.
A great series. Hasn't had a miss so far. The only problem had been Abby's lone-wolf persona in the first book, which has evaporated over the series into a lot of great relationships.
Summary of Snipped in the Bud (Flower Shop Mysteries, No. 4)When I swapped the thorny problems of law school for the budding business of my flower store, Bloomers, I vowed that I, Abby Knight, wouldn?t be caught dead visiting that hateful campus ever again. But sometimes a girl?s got to face down her dragons.... PLANT OF ATTACK Someone orders a black rose for Abby?s old law school nemesis, Professor ?Snapdragon? Puffer. But her plans for a speedy delivery are foiled when he catches her putting the bloom on his desk and sends it straight into the trash. Abby flees in terror, only to run smack into Carson Reed, the professor who recently had her arrested at an animal rights protest. After a biting exchange, Abby storms out of the building. But if there?s anything she can?t stand, it?s injustice and bullies. So, even though she knows bad luck comes in threes, she ignores the advice of her sometimes boyfriend, hunk-a-licious Marco Salvare, and heads back in to retrieve her dignity and her flower?only to find the rose now decorating a dead professor, and herself the prime suspect....
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