Another gripping whodunit! ( )

Yews With Caution is the nineteenth book in the A Flower Shop Mystery series.

I love stopping in at Bloomer’s and seeing what Abby and her enjoyable staff, Grace, Lottie, and Rosa are up to.

Abby and Marco have recently finished moving into their new home and have decided to purchase some plants to decorate the outside of their new home. Abby had seen ads for DK’s Landscape Center that stated that they never used harmful chemicals, toxic application or herbicides. As they are awaiting Hector Cantos. Co-owner of DK’s, to select the availability of the shrubs, they overhear some employees discussing a customer, Barry Barnsmith, that had come in threatening the life Dick Kennison, owner of DK’s. Barnsmith’s wife Alice was in the hospital with a serious allergic reaction, which he feels is related to plants they had recently purchased from DK’s.

Also about this time, Abby gets a scary phone call from her best friend, Nikki Hudike. Nikki tells her a story how she and four other nurses have come with a plan to murder one of their husbands and dispose of his body so it will never be found. As the story progresses the reader will learn that the wife of the man to be killed off in their fictional story, is none other than Dick Kennison. Soon, Kennison’s father reports his son missing. Now with the police involved, Abby and Marco really need to get busy to find who was involved with Kennison’s disappearance, so that Nikki can get back to her living guilt free. But soon becomes extremely ill and Abby needs to also find what has caused Marco’s illness.

Most all the usual characters are back once again. Lottie and Grace are there to have Abby’s back and Rosa, not only valuable in the flower shop but also goes on the hunt with Abby for the killer.

Another well-plotted and written book from Ms. Collins. I will be watching for the next book in this exciting series. ( )