Bouquets and Blackmail: A Language of Flowers Cozy Mystery (A Floriography Mystery)
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Some bouquets say love. The black dahlias left at Millhaven Blooms say something else entirely.Florist Laurel Hartwell knows a flower shop in a small town is a surprisingly good place to learn what people would rather keep private. She notices the choices customers make, the flowers they avoid, and the things they reveal without meaning to.So when an ominous black-dahlia arrangement appears with an unsigned message, Laurel knows it feels less like decoration than a warning.Then a prominent Millhaven resident is found dead nearby.Laurel turns to the unusual 1884 flower guide inherited from her grandmother. In its pages, flowers form a forgotten language capable of expressing affection, regret, resentment—and things far darker.As Laurel retraces recent orders, delivery times, handwritten notes, and suspicious flower choices, familiar faces begin to look different. Millhaven’s cozy streets are held together by years of favors, loyalties, grudges, and secrets.The sheriff sees a murder investigation.Laurel sees a language no one speaks anymore.And if the bouquet is a sentence, she has only translated the first few words.Someone in Millhaven would prefer she never reads the rest.Bouquets & Blackmail is a clean small-town flower shop cozy mystery filled with clever clues, dry humor, warm community, autumn charm, and a puzzle written in the Victorian language of flowers. Read more
