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Patrice Greenwood was born and raised in New Mexico and remembers when the Santa Fe Plaza was home to dusty dogs than trendy art galleries She has been writing fiction longer than she cares to admit perpetrating over twenty published novels in various genres She uses a different name for each genre thus enabling her to pretend she is a Secret Agent. Mystery A Sprig of Blossomed thornton She loves afternoon tea old buildings gourmet tailgating at the opera ghost stories costumes and solving puzzles Her popular Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries are colored by many of these interests She is presently collapsed on her chaise longue sipping Wisteria White tea and planning the next book in the series. A sprig of blossomed thorn pdf download Elderly Mrs Garcia falls dead in the tea room the second person to die there Proprietor Ellen whose business is already recovering from a murder the day the tea shop opened and who is coping with a possible ghost and a prickly but intriguing relationship with a local cop is horrified when it turns out the poor woman did not die of natural causes. A sprig of blossomed thorny pear Is it an ethnically motivated murder Mrs Garcia was a prominent member of the local rose club but its only Hispanic member Ellen tries to investigate in her own way as is Tony Aragon the cop she s dating As if she doesn t have enough problems besides the ghost Ellen s place is being haunted by teenagers in the middle of the night and then there s something going on with Kris Ellen s Goth accountant . A sprig of blossomed thornzone The story starts fast and stays brisk with several scenes with the kinetic snap I love as they veer between serious and comic Toward the end things get appropriately serious as Ellen and Tony separately and then together begin to close in on the murder while exploring unexamined bigotry that makes Ellen who is somewhat fussy uncomfortable Sharp character observation nifty stuff about roses evocative local atmosphere a touch of the weird and of romance made this an unputdownable read I am really looking forward to the next Mystery Mystery Might have read this too close to the first as in day after but it took quite s nose dive for me Partly Ellen started annoying me she s too precious about the peaceful atmosphere she wants to preserve in the tearooms if I think your attitude to guns while having romantic interest in a cop is daft you re in trouble she s still far too blind to her privilege and she is massively insensitive about Tony s lack of higher education I m surprised you know what the word luddite means no less I continued to hate the sound of the tearooms and decided to take a break from the series for a while Mystery Light cozy mystery read I like this better than the first book in the series Mystery I couldn t stop reading the second book Yes this book does have some political themes in it but that to me makes it feel real I m also glad for the tea theme It gives the dark tones a whimsical spin Mystery
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Pdf a sprig of blossomed thorn download This cozy mystery set in a Victorian tea house in New Mexico is the second in a series that promises to get stronger with each story And wittier
