About Killer Flowers: A Christie’s Flower Shoppe Mystery (Christie’s Flower Shoppe Cozy Mystery Series):
The message is murder…After ten years in the big city, accountant Christie O’Mara is back in her hometown — and thrilled to take over her deceased grandmother’s Flower Shoppe, known for its hidden floral “messages”. But while preparing for opening day, Christie finds a note that hints at a decades-old murder, taped to the underside of an antique desk drawer. Even ditzy Aunt Doris has no idea what it could mean — and she knows everyone and everythingin town.When a man is poisoned by a Flower Shoppe bouquet with a “be careful” message, the police chief turns up on Christie’s doorstep with tricky questions. But he may be the least of her worries.Someone knows what happened forty years ago. And they’re laying the past to rest — one victim at a time.
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Author Bio:
PJ Peterson began writing mysteries once she retired from her career as an internal medicine physician. It was a natural choice considering that she had read all the Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden books when she was younger, graduating to Agatha Christie and other mystery authors over time.
Her first series, Julia Fairchild Mysteries, features Julia Fairchild, MD, a smart and curious young doctor who is much braver than the author (who has yet to try sky-diving). She has her first brush with death in Blind Fish Don’t Talk. Starting with Rembrandt Rides a Bike, younger sister Carly Pedersen enters the stage..in more ways than one.
Her novels include a touch of humor with her sidekick sister Carly providing much of that. And with her medical background, she sprinkles in something related to health or disease whenever it fits the story. She says a doctor is just a detective wearing a white coat.
One professional reviewer has described Julia as “Jessica Fletcheresque,” à la Murder She Wrote.
After seven Julia novels, she was itching to play with more characters and started a new series–Christie’s Flower Shoppe Cozy Mystery Series. Young Christie O’Mara has reopened her recently-deceased grandmother’s flower shop in the town where she grew up. Her flower bouquets are known for hidden messages, but in several cases, the message was murder. Killer Flowers is the first novel, with Killer Wedding six months later. More books are in the works.