Kirjahaku

“What have I gotten myself into!” Botanist Millie Whitehall leaves her New Jersey home to take a job in New Mexico. She plans to spend a peaceful summer surveying rare plants. Instead she becomes entangled in two heartless murders. Millie befriends one too many characters that she encounters during her work in the back country. Will it be the friendly oil and gas hand, out-spoken environmentalist, laid-back cowboy, charming foreign tourist, or handsome young Navajo biologist that ends up threatening her life? Cozy mystery lovers will enjoy adventuring along with Millie as she draws on her knowledge of ecology to save an endangered cactus, before she—and the cactus—face extinction at the hands of the murderer.

Dramatic sequel to the bestselling The Cactus Plot with a strong appeal to fans of Southwestern mysteries. Botanist Millie Whitehall is making good progress surveying an old abandoned homestead until discovering the body of a missing university professor in the root cellar. Millie then learns why the homestead was abandoned shortly after it was built; another horrific murder occurred inside the cabin in 1913. Rumors of a lost silver cross, finding a pearl in a pack rat's nest, and an old man's dying story leads Millie to uncover the link between the professor's murder and the century-old murder. Although the professor's murderer could still be around, Millie is determined to complete her work because it could lead to the property being declared a National Historic Site. But a threatening message spray painted on the outhouse door and stolen hallucinogenic plants signal not everyone thinks this is a good idea.