Friday, May 9, 2014

Lethal Lily with Joyce and Jim Lavene Review & Giveaway blog tour





Lethal Lily
by
with Joyce and Jim Lavene

Lethal Lily
A Peggy Lee Gardening Mystery
Cozy Mystery
300 pages

Synopsis
Part-time garden shop owner/part-time forensic botanist, Peggy Lee is trying to discover if the death of Ann Fletcher 20 years ago was an accident – or foul play. In return, she hopes to receive more information about her first husband’s death. She knows John Lee was murdered, but questions have arisen as to why he was killed. She is working with a private detective who stumbles across his own feet, but her Internet friend, Nightflyer, says that Harry Fletcher has the answers. When Harry is murdered by convallatoxin, from the lily of the valley plant, Peggy begins to understand her role in everything. Now she has to stay alive long enough to prove her theories – and keep her son, Paul out of trouble too!

About The Authors
Joyce and Jim Lavene write award-winning, bestselling mystery fiction as themselves, J.J. Cook, and Ellie Grant. They have written and published more than 70 novels for Harlequin, Berkley, Amazon, and Gallery Books along with hundreds of non-fiction articles for national and regional publications. They live in rural North Carolina with their family.
Author Links

www.joyceandjimlavene.com

www.peggyleegardenmysteries.com

www.facebook.com/joyceandjimlavene

http://amazon.com/author/jlavene

https://twitter.com/AuthorJLavene

My Review: Lethal Lily with Joyce and Jim Lavene

4 STARS

This is my first Peggy Lee Gardening Mystery. So I have no shared history with the characters. Now I really want to know more about their past. I like the characters. I do like to know more about the plants they talk about. Makes me want to garden even more.

I would not mind having the chocolate vine in my yard. I did not know that so many of the plants are so full of poison.

Peggy Lee is looking into the death of her first husband. Their are some facts coming out she did not know. She is arrested for almost breaking into a storage unit. She tries to go unnoticed at the police station. It does not work. Soon others recognize her and get her FBI husband to know, Her late husband's partner and her son the cop.

Peggy owns a garden shop, she is also the county Forensic botanist. Her second husband was actually working with her husband when he was killed. Their are a lot of questions about his death. She did not want her son, husband knowing that she was working with private investigator Harry who had some knowledge about her husband.

Harry thinks his wife was murdered twenty years ago by poison. He is hoping if Peggy works with him they can both find answers to the past. Then Harry turns up dead. Peggy finds the body and realizes he was poisoned too.

I feel that I have been a little lost in knowing which characters to trust and what ones maybe not to. Especially with the ending.

I enjoy reading Joyce and Jim Lavene books. they tale a good tale. I will read more books from them in the future.

I wanted to keep reading and find out more about the characters. It was a fast read.

I was given this ebook to read and in return agreed to give honest review of it.

Giveaway:

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Tour Participants

May 5 – Back Porchervations – Review

May 6 – Our Wolves Den – Review

May 6 – Deal Sharing Aunt – Interview

May 7 – Brooke Blogs – Review

May 8 – Thoughts in Progress – Guest Post

May 9 – readalot – Review

May 10 – Christa Reads and Writes – Review

May 11 – OFF

May 12 – Kelly P’s Blog – Interview

May 13 – Shelley’s Book Case – Review

May 14 – Queen of All She Reads – Review, Guest Post

May 15 – Kaisy Daisy’s Corner – Review

May 16 – Traci Andrighetti’s blog – Interview,

May 17 – Michele Lynn Seigfried’s Blog – Review, Guest Post

May 18 – OFF

May 19 – Mochas, Mysteries and Meows – Guest Post

May 20 – Melina’s Book Blog – Review

May 21 – Community Bookstop – Guest Post

4 comments:

  1. I enjoy books by this Author Team, and I'm adding this one to my to be read list. =)

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  2. Thanks for hosting us here today!

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  3. Gardening mysteries are always such fun!!

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  4. thank you for having extra entries for us non-Twitter-ers.......

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