Ann Ripley's Death at the Spring Plant Sale is a another book with her series character Louise Eldridge. Louise is now a host of a garden show for her local Virginia PBS station. She gets a request from her friend, Emily, to feature her Bethesda Maryland, gardening club on the show. She decides it may be worth while, and she is eager to visit with her old college pal. What starts out as a good filming day at the plant sale, turns into a case of murder when the club president is shot and killed in her own driveway later that evening.
Emily wants Louise to investigate and is willing to be her sidekick over the objections of her husband. Husbands become a bit of a sticky issue when they try to investigate - for the victims's husband is a big whig at the Federal Reserve. Just who was the shooter trying to kill?
Louise is an engaging character and I am encouraged to read more books in this series. In a bit of local humor - I found it ironic that one of the more annoying suspects had been involved in a gardening club in Winnetka! A fun mystery.
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