This is the third book in the popular Agatha Award nominated series featuring Korine, Amilou, and Janey, owners of Three Dirty Women Landscaping. This time it’s Korine’s life that is turned upside down as she comes to the defense of her paranoid mother-in-law, who may have accidentally killed an old friend at Shady Acres Nursing Home.
When a hostage situation in a gated community turns deadly, Detective Claudia Hershey is spun into an investigation where the only certainties are deceit and betrayal. Whether she can restore tranquility to the quiet Florida town and salvage her career depends on the community's newest residents - and who among them stays alive.
From Publishers WeeklyIn Three Dirty Women and the Bitter Brew, Julie Wray Herman (Three Dirty Women and theGarden of Death) continues her series featuring the three owners of a landscaping company. One of the partners, Korine McFaile, is stuck with a hostile roommate at a convention and when her roommate turns up murdered, Korine is the prime suspect. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Professional landscaping company, Three Dirty Women, unearths more than they bargain for when Amilou Whittier finds her philandering husband buried under a client's azaleas.
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Korine McFaile, her partner Janey Bascom, and Janey's husband, J.J., visit historic Savannah for the twelth annual Small Landscapers Convention. Korine is stuck rooming with Dodie Halloran, who seems determined to make Korine's life miserable. When Dodie is murdered, Korine becomes suspect. Further complicating matters, Korine's son, Chaz, has a problem he cannot, or will not, discuss with her. In order to deal with her son's dilemma, Korine must face her own secret from the past, which in turn leads her to the reason for Dodie's violent death.
