Bindweed - Tapa dura

Florist, Bretta Solomon is happy to spend her day off with the florist helper, Toby, a slowwitted man left to live by himself since the death of his mother. Everyone in town, including Bretta, keeps a watchful eye on him. Meanwhile, Bretta has another promise to fulfil: her father's new - and younger - girlfriend wants to redecorate Bretta's home. But the unexpected news that Toby has been deliberately killed puts everything else on the back burner. Determined to find out the truth behind the murder, Bretta is once again in the thick of things.

Janis Harrison has combined her career as a florist with her love of writing in the Bretta Solomon series, which includes Roots of Murder, Murder Sets Seed, Lilies that Fester and A Deadly Bouquet. She lives with her husband in Missouri, where they operate their own greenhouse business.