Deadhead and Buried ; English Cottage Garden Mystery

Deadhead and Buried; A English Cottage Garden Mystery .  This is H.Y. Hanna’s newest mystery series.  This is book one.  I guess I can day I am a little jealous.  I have always wanted to write a mystery novel and I have not been able to get started and I cannot imagine writing all the dialog.  Now here is Hanna writing not one but three different series.  Maybe they are a bit formula, but I have to give her credit for working on three different entertaining mystery series at one time.

In one series the protagonist is a young woman unhappy with her career and where she is living so she comes home to a small English village and opens a breakfast, scone and coffee shop.  She and her friends who join her in the business help her solve crimes and make award winning scones.  She is back in her home town and her parents are nearby so she can visit them for Sunday dinners.  Of course after a few books an old boyfriend, now a detective inspector comes back to town also.

In her next series, she approaches witchcraft and magical principles, when her young woman protagonist is left without a family and goes in search of her lost extended family.  She moves in with someone who she finds out is her grandmother in a chocolate shop and of course is secretly in love with the baron who lives in the village.  Her best friend comes to visit every tine there is a murder and they solve them while savoring delicious chocolates decribed to make your mouth water.

Now she has taken the young woman protagonist, again without any family that she knows of, and sets her in London.  She is living with a sweet older woman who has taken her under her wing and offers support, both with advice and warm food and a bed when she needs it.  This time our protagonist finds out that her estranged grandmother has passed away and left her home and business to Poppy, an appropriate name for the future owner of a florist business.  Poppy is reluctant at first but she has now gone to look at the business and see if she can sell it to get some needed money to travel.  Of course a dead body and a break-in change her path and she is in the middle of solving the crimes.   She wants to find out about her past and the maybe fix up the cottage and clean up the gardens.  There is also that handsome mystery writer who lives in the neighboring cottage that could be a future assistant and romantic relationship.

Hanna’s novels are fairly predictable but she does keep you thinking and guessing until the end of each mystery and they are entertaining to read.  So I will keep reading all of her different amateur detectives.  SO much fun!!!!