Books by Julia Henry

"When the town's beloved theater owner's sudden death brings about drama and murder as the autumn leaves fall, Lilly Jayne and her Garden Squad must rake through the clues to catch a killer"--

A festive fall is in full swing in Goosebush, Massachusetts, but when a snoopy reporter is felled by foul play, it''s up to Lilly and her Garden Squad to spook out a killer...Between hosting a haunted house on her lawn, serving on the town''s 400th Anniversary Planning Committee, and prepping for the Fall Festival''s 10k fundraiser, Lilly''s hands are full. She doesn''t have time for prickly newspaper reporter Tyler Crane, who''s been creeping around town, looking for dirt on Goosebush''s most notable families...until he''s found dead on the race route moments before the start.An unfortunate accident? Or did Tyler unearth a secret that someone in Goosebush is willing to kill to keep? By planting nasty rumors and cultivating fear, Tyler sowed a fair share of ill will during his brief time in town. Weeding through the suspects will be thorny, but Lilly and her Garden Squad are determined to root out the autumnal assassin before the Fall Festival flops...

Post-retirement aches and pains can't prevent sixty-five-year-old Lilly Jayne from keeping the most manicured garden in Goosebush, Massachusetts. But as a murder mystery blooms in the sleepy New England town, can a green thumb weed out a killer? With hundreds flocking to her inaugural garden party, meticulous Lilly Jayne hasn't left a single petal out of place. But the picture-perfect gathering turns unruly upon the arrival of Merilee Frank, Lilly's ex-husband's catty third wife. Merilee lives for trouble, so no one is surprised after she drinks too much, shoves a guest into the koi pond, and gets escorted off the property. The real surprise comes days later-when Merilee is found dead in a pile of mulch . . . Lilly wishes she could stick to pruning roses and forget about Merilee's murder-until her best friend and ex become suspects in an overgrown homicide case. Now, aided by the Garden Squad, an unlikely group of amateur crime solvers with a knack for planting, Lilly knows she has limited time to identify the true culprit and restore order to Goosebush. Because if the murderer's plot isn't nipped in the bud, another victim could be pushing up daisies!