Flowers and Foul Play by Amanda Flower

Flowers and Foul Play is the first in the Magic Garden Series by Amanda Flower. It is a nice cozy little mystery that will keep you guessing. When Ian McAllister dies he leaves his cottage and magical garden to his goddaughter Fiona Knox, an American. She had grown close to her godfather since the family made frequent trips to Scotland. After a broken engagement and the failure of her business Fiona goes to Scotland to claim her inheritance. The day she arrives she discovers a body in the garden who turns out to be the lawyer handling the estate. Immediately the law is called and she becomes a suspect along with her godfather's caretaker Hamish. She has an alibi but a shadow still hangs over Hamish. Very quickly over the next few days the suspects grow as she decides to do some investigating much to the chagrin of the local law officer. 

The murderer could have been a number of people since nobody really liked the lawyer. A lot of people had the motive but who did it? It kept me guessing until the very end. The story got really suspenseful when she figured out who it was and with her life in danger.

Thanks to Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for providing me a digital copy of this book to read and review. Flowers and Foul Play is due to be released on May 8, 2018. I look forward to reading more cozies in this series