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THE RED BOOK OF PRIMROSE HOUSE by Marty Wingate

This book was...something else.  It had no excitement and there was no mystery.  I knew who the murderer was very early on in the book and I was just wishing that the book would just get to the point already. Pru Parke has gotten the job of her dreams.  She got the position of head gardener at an eighteenth-century manor house in Sussex.  The landscape of Primrose House was originally designed by Humphry Repton. It is Pru's job to restore the garden to it's former glory with guidance from one of Repton's famous red books. Pru is excited and up to the task when a murderer throws an ax into her plans. One of Pru's gardening crew has been brutally murdered and an investigation is undergone to catch the culprit who did it. Not being new to dead bodies, Pru starts asking questions to get to the bottom of this mystery.  With the help from her sexy inspector, Christopher Pearse.  Now it is up to Pru to finish the garden, dig into the mysterious backg...