Weeding Out Trouble: A Nina Quinn Mystery (Nina Quinn Mysteries)

landscaper Nina Quinn Would Do Anything For Her Employees. After All, Taken By Surprise, Her Garden Makeover Business, Wouldn't Be Blooming If It Weren't For Them. So When Kit Pipe, Her Right-hand Handyman, Goes Missing, Nina Immediately Starts Digging Into His Disappearance. But All She Finds Is Daisy Bedinghaus, Kit's Ex—and She's Dead As Dirt. an Ex-con Who'd Been Dumped By Daisy Not Long Before Her Murder, Kit's The Prime Suspect. But Nina's Determined To Prove His Innocence And Nip This Whole Thing In The Bud. After All, It'll Get Her Out Of Her All-too-crowded House, Where Her Ex-husband The Cop Is Recovering From A Gunshot Wound On Her Couch And Her Thorny New Stepson Is Giving Her The Evil Eye. But As She Comes Closer To Unearthing The Truth, Nina Will Find That Facing The Frost In Her Home Is Nothing Compared To Confronting The Real Killer's Ice-cold Stare. romantic Times Bookclub “nina Is A Fresh Welcome Addition To The Genre.” A landscaper with a knack for unearthing the truth is out to catch a killer and clear her friend's name in this cozy mystery. Landscaper Nina Quinn would do anything for her employees. After all, her garden makeover business wouldn't be blooming if it weren't for them. So when Kit Pipe, her right-hand handyman, goes missing, Nina immediately starts digging into his disappearance. But all she finds is Kit's recent ex, Daisy Bedinghaus—and she's dead as dirt. With a criminal past and a clear motive, Kit is the prime suspect in Daisy's murder. But Nina's determined to prove his innocence. After all, it'll get her out of the house, where her ex-husband the cop is recovering from a gunshot wound and her thorny new stepson is giving her the evil eye. But the cold shoulder Nina gets at home is about to feel downright cozy compared to the real killer's ice-cold stare. When her much valued handyman, Kit Pipe, vanishes, landscaper Nina Quinn launches a personal investigation into his disappearance only to find his ex-girlfriend, Daisy Bedinghaus, dead, with Kit, an ex-con, the prime suspect in the murder, but her quest is complicated by her difficult new stepson and by her cop ex-husband, who is recovering from a gunshot wound on her couch Landscape designer Nina Quinn is used to unpredictability when it comes to her employees. It's the price she pays for giving ex-cons a second chance. But when Kit Pipe, her right hand man, doesn't show up for work, a worried Nina sets out to track him down. Unfortunately, all she finds is the dead body of Daisy Bedinghaus, Kit's ex-girlfriend.