A Sprinkling of Murder
Books | Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
3.9
Daryl Wood Gerber
Featured on Buzzfeed Books! Fairy garden store owner Courtney Kelly believes in inviting magic into your life. But when uninvited trouble enters her shop, she’ll need more than a sprinkling of her imagination to solve a murder . . . Since childhood, Courtney has loved fairies. After her mother died when Courtney was ten, she lost touch with that feeling of magic. A year ago, at age twenty-nine, she rediscovered it when she left her father's landscaping business to spread her wings and start a fairy garden business and teashop in beautiful Carmel, California. At Open Your Imagination, she teaches garden design and sells everything from fairy figurines to tinkling wind chimes. Now she's starting a book club tea. But the light of the magical world she's created inside her shop is darkened one night when she discovers neighboring dog-grooming business owner Mick Watkins dead beside her patio fountain. To make matters worse, the police suspect Courtney of the crime. To clear her name and find the real killer, Courtney will have to wing it. But she’s about to get a little help from an unexpected source . . .
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Author
Daryl Wood Gerber
Pages
304
Publisher
Kensington Books
Published Date
2020-06-30
ISBN
1496726359 9781496726353
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"I wish I could give this more than 5 stars but sadly that is not a thing. Yet.<br/><br/>Mixing magical realism with cozy mysteries? A winning combination, a caress to the soul.<br/>After having finished a row of horror-thriller books, this felt like a carrot after being beaten up constantly with the stick.<br/><br/>Being surrounded with fairies didn't take away from the main plot, solving the murder your local pets groomer. This book manages to balance both magic and grim reality in an endearing and very compelling story. This was another favourite of the year.<br/>Looking forward to reading the next one."