DIGGING UP DAISY

Shocked to find a dead girl’s shoe in her aunt’s yard, a landscaper resolves to track down the murderer to keep her aunt from suspicion.

Since losing her parents at an early age, Kinsley Clark has made a home with her Aunt Tilly in Harborside, Maine, while her younger brother, Kyle, who's in the Air Force, lives on a base in Germany. Kinsley’s company, SeaScapes, makes attractive landscape designs that are highly sought after by the many shops and small inns that make Harborside such a beautiful tourist destination. Last year, she was even featured in Coastal Living, much to the ire of rival landscaper Denny Davenport. But Kinsley’s not thinking about that as she tends to the area around Tilly’s Salty Breeze Inn, which she wants to look just right in preparation for the Walk Inns, an annual open-house showcase. Instead, she’s distracted by some dirt that seems a little bit out of place (trust a landscaper to know). When she digs up the soil, she’s shocked to find a shoe—and not just any shoe, but what seems like the shoe the police are seeking in the case of the Cinderella killer. Though Kinsley doesn’t want to get Tilly in trouble, she knows she has to figure out how the late Daisy Davis’ shoe ended up on her aunt’s grounds. While she’s able to get best friend Becca on her side, Kinsley is surprised and confused when Pete O’Rourke, the owner of her favorite downtown haunt, the Blue Lobstah, won’t offer his help. Were they never really friends, or is the sometimes-mysterious Pete hiding something that’s stopping him from being involved with Kinsley’s figurative digging?

More rose than weed.