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Animal, Vegetable, Murder

Sunny Day Burnett juggles geriatric chickens, corpses, and a cranky Scottish policeman in this charming mystery set on an urban farm in Seattle.

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Gathering eggs for breakfast, Sunny discovers a neighbor face down and dead in a patch of Swiss chard. Worse yet, the murdered man is clutching a photograph of Sunny's recently deceased husband wearing little more than a pink feather boa and red stilettos. Stunned, Sunny hides the picture—and her husband's appalling fashion sense—from the police, but she can't hide herself from a killer more voracious than a gray garden slug.

Soon long-buried secrets are popping up like dandelions. Sunny must resolve her past if she wants a future. But time is running out and the day of harvest is near.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 252 pages

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