Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Potting Shed Mystery (Potting Shed Mystery series Book 3)
By: Marty Wingate
Rating: 5 of 5
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place” is the third in a series of Potting Shed mysteries by Marty Wingate. I have read all three and also her debut mystery in another series. After four books, I know and am comfortable with her style.
In this story, the relationship between our gardening sleuth, Pru Parke and her beau, Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Pearse, have progressed and wedding bells are in the future. In the meantime, Pru has accepted a temporary position in Edinburgh, doing research and writing a to-be-published paper on the subject.
In between trying to do her job, dodging disgruntled employees and a blast from her past, Pru is busy trying to plan (or rather get someone else to plan) her wedding. Where the earlier books in the series deal a little more with actual gardening, this one steps back and focuses more on her relationships and where her life is heading.
As with all murder mysteries, a murder finally happens and at least at first, Pru is a suspect. That helps explain why she gets involved in trying to solve the murder but one actually figures out by now that Pru is going to get involved one way or the other. As with her other books, there are a host of suspicious characters who may have been involved. I actually figure out both the whodunnit and the whydunnit it fairly early on (there were clues and I was able to put one and one together to come up with two.) I still enjoyed the story as there was both interesting historical information and some funny plot lines to follow.
I received a digital ARC copy of this book from the publisher, Alibi (Random House LLC), via Netgalley.
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place” is the third in a series of Potting Shed mysteries by Marty Wingate. I have read all three and also her debut mystery in another series. After four books, I know and am comfortable with her style.