The Hanging Garden

Description for THE HANGING GARDEN by John Sherwood:

MURDER MOST BOTANICAL

Celia Grant must leave her beloved plants and fly to Madeira to oversee the estate of her niece, Antonia Hanbury, dead after a drunken misstep down a flight of stairs.

But Antonia's death has opened a Pandora's box for Sir Adrian, her invalid father who must now leave his home, and for his nurse, Maria, an enigmatic Brazilian beauty terrified that her own death is inevitable.

Evil, probably murder, is in the air.  And soon Celia is caught in a web of suspicious characters, missing children, stolen orchids and blackmail...more dirt than even a devout horticulturalist may be able to dig herself out of.

This is #8 in A Celia Grant Mystery.