Published 08/02/09
It’s summertime – it is honestly, despite the weather, and our ever optimistic Jen has a wonderful book suggestion this week for those lazy, hazy days we’re spending on our beach towels … or rather (hopefully) about to spend. It’s the garden-themed mystery, “Pushing up Daisies” by Rosemary Harris
Just back from a marvelous vacation where I read not a word! Horrors. But I did carry this book around with me just in case.
It really is fun, even lonely and covered in sand, it made me happy. Now that I have had a moment, I will say it is a great fun summer read. I finished Harris’ second book, “The Big Dirt Nap,” and had to go find this one.
They are part of a new mystery series about Paula Holliday, an ex-TV exec, who now owns a gardening business. A Dirty Business.
She is great fun to tag along with, as are the other characters. Set in the fictional Springfield, Conn., ( I am guessing Stamford or Cos Cob), she keeps stumbling upon mysteries that only she can figure out.
There are local police, friends, a groovy diner owner and some love interests, but Paula is the main dish … and she’s great. The plots are clever enough to whisk you along and while it certainly is not Kafka – who cares? Do we need to metamorphasize on our beach towels? I think not.
I look forward to more. Like Janet Evanovich, Sarah Graves, Nancy Atherton et al, Rosemary Harris is a treat.