Böcker av J Marshall Gordon

Penny Summers bones up on Renaissance garden design until she finds a dead docent and finds herself up to her tramp stamp unraveling a Civil War battle flag scam. In North Carolina where “The Recent Unpleasantness” between the North and the South is still romanticized, the problem of a dead docent in a famous garden leads ex-Navy public affairs officer Penny Summers to a Civil War battle flag scam, a deadly reenactment, and a search for a man in black. With the help of Kalea, an eleven-year-old C.S.I.-wannabe, and Aaron, her handsome Navy friend working undercover, Penny discovers more than she bargained for. She thinks if she had studied psychology, it might have turned out differently. Probably not. 

Penny Summers’ first foray as a gardener brings her face to face with her newest friend, college sophomore Katelyn Blake, dead in a swamp-like goldfish pond. Penny, a former Navy public affairs officer, is determined to research an article about Katelyn, hoping to discover the killer. When she’s put in charge of planning a monster Fourth of July festival, Penny is up to her tramp stamp in competing allegiances.Katelyn’s Killer is woven into the fabric of Maryland’s capital city and its two most famous schools, the U. S. Naval Academy and historic St. John’s College. Where the scent of Chesapeake breezes, ancient boxwoods and old money mingle.“Jackson Pollock couldn’t have improved on the macabre art: rips and bloodstains among the green, gray and ochre swirls of her camouflagejacket.”