Freelance book editor Amy Creighton wants to enjoy her flower and vegetable gardens, swimming in the pond, and summer in Maine. Her plans are derailed when local children find a bag of antique jewels, and then a reclusive fellow gardener goes missing. The best witnesses to Carlton Kalloch's disappearance are a pair of eccentric maiden sisters whose old fashion notions of propriety keep them from sharing what they've learned through spying on their neighbor. Can Amy, with her deep knowledge of her small Maine town, persuade them to talk? Can her knowledge of gardening and gardener's habits help the police? The quiet of her rural summer, and a visit with an old friend, are seriously disrupted when Amy makes a shocking find in the missing man's compost bin.
Freelance book editor Amy Creighton wants to enjoy her flower and vegetable gardens, swimming in the pond, and summer in Maine. Her plans are derailed when local children find a bag of antique jewels, and then a reclusive fellow gardener goes missing. The best witnesses to Carlton Kalloch's disappearance are a pair of eccentric maiden sisters whose old fashion notions of propriety keep them from sharing what they've learned through spying on their neighbor. Can Amy, with her deep knowledge of her small Maine town, persuade them to talk? Can her knowledge of gardening and gardener's habits help the police? The quiet of her rural summer, and a visit with an old friend, are seriously disrupted when Amy makes a shocking find in the missing man's compost bin.