The Case of the Camellia Conundrum

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

When prize camellias are murdered, so is their owner's rival...

The prestigious Hamsley Flower Festival should be a genteel affair of prize blooms and polite rivalry. But when Holmes and Garden are recruited as judges for the mysterious 'Mystery Bloom' category, they discover that beneath the village's charming exterior, secrets grow as thick as English ivy.

Lady Philomena Whitethorne's award-winning camellias—worth millions in patent rights—have been destroyed by a sophisticated botanical toxin. Then a body turns up in the ornamental maze, and what began as horticultural sabotage blooms into murder.

To infiltrate the cutthroat world of competitive gardening, Garden must dust off his alter ego 'Daphne Bloom' and go undercover among the feuding flower society members. Meanwhile, Holmes finds himself unexpectedly entered into a gnome-decorating competition and becomes hilariously obsessed with winning.

As the amateur detectives dig deeper, they unearth a decades-old scandal involving a disgraced vicar, forbidden botanical experiments, and a missing heiress who may not be missing at all. With the help of the formidable Mrs. Garden (who has her own investigative methods) and despite the interference of Colin the cat (who has his own agenda), Holmes and Garden must solve the mystery before the killer plants them six feet under.

In this delightfully witty cozy mystery, nothing is quite as it seems—not the flowers, not the pillars of society, and certainly not the charming garden columnist who seems far too interested in Daphne Bloom's striking bone structure.