African Violet Club Mystery Books 1-3

Discover a feisty retired librarian with a talent for solving murders.

True Blue Murder

Lilliana Wentworth expects the First Annual African Violet Club Show and Sale at the Rainbow Ranch Retirement Community to be thrilling. The former librarian has developed her first hybrid, a plant with unusual deep blue flowers, and hopes to win a first place ribbon. Maybe even best in show. But her excitement turns to dread when the aggravating Bette Tesselink, her fiercest rival, turns up dead and she becomes the logical suspect.

There's never been a murder in the village of Rainbow Ranch, and it soon becomes apparent that the young Chief of Police is in over his head. Under pressure from the mayor, Lilliana is afraid he'll arrest her simply to close the case. Her only option is to begin her own investigation and find the murderer—before she winds up in jail.

Blood Red Murder

A Murder in Plain Sight

Lilliana Wentworth's reputation has drawn a slew of residents to the next meeting of the Rainbow Ranch Retirement Community's African Violet Club. Everyone is curious about their famous sleuth.

She might be able to turn their interest in her to raising her favorite plants. She might even convince some of them to join the club.

But when the retirement community's newest resident, party girl Ruby Robinson, is murdered, and the primary suspect is Lilliana's friend, her joy at the thought of new members turns to dismay.

With the crowd crammed so close together in the small room, no one actually saw him commit the crime. But he was the only one who knew the victim.

Or was he?

With an abundance of elderly suspects, once again Lilliana is compelled to come to the aid of the small town chief of police to help solve a murder

Royal Purple Murder

Murder on the 4th of July

A budding romance for our heroine.

When an aging rodeo queen is shot dead at the annual Fourth of July Celebration, Lilliana Wentworth, retired librarian, African violet fancier, and amateur sleuth, must solve the case before a ditzy frien