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Deadhead and Buried (English Cottage Garden Mysteries ~ Book 1): a humorous, cozy British whodunnit mystery (The English Cottage Garden Mysteries) Kindle Edition

by H.Y. Hanna (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Poppy desperately wants to pay off her debts, quit her dead-end job, find her missing father... oh, and keep a plant alive. But she knows that these are just hopeless dreams. Then a mysterious letter arrives and Poppy finds that she's inherited a cottage garden nursery - complete with romantic climbing roses, scented herbs, a bossy, talkative ginger cat.. and a dead body!
Now she must solve the mystery or risk losing her new home and the chance for a fresh start. But who would want to murder a gardener in a sleepy little village? Could a reclusive inventor have something to do with the killing? What about the brooding crime author next door? And why is her long-lost cousin so desperate for her to sell the cottage?
Poppy might not know her pansies from her petunias, but that doesn't stop her digging for clues. The only problem is - she could be digging her own grave too...

This book follows British English spelling and usage.
Clean read: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.
Genre: cat mystery / cozy mystery series / gardening cozy mystery / women amateur sleuth / British detective mystery

THE ENGLISH COTTAGE GARDEN MYSTERIES
  • Deadhead and Buried (Book 1)
  • Silent Bud Deadly (Book 2)
  • Doom and Bloom (Book 3)
  • Trowel and Error (Book 4)
  • Fronds and Enemies (Book 5)
  • Too Mulch to Handle (Book 6)
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THE ENGLISH COTTAGE GARDEN MYSTERIES
Each book in the series can be read as a standalone but they're much more fun when read in order!
  • Deadhead and Buried (Book 1)
  • Silent Bud Deadly (Book 2)
  • Doom and Bloom (Book 3)
  • Trowel and Error (Book 4)
  • Fronds and Enemies (Book 5) - on pre-order now!

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As she was returning to the kitchen, she was startled by a clatter from the rear of the house. Poppy froze. It had sounded a bit like shattering crockery, and reminded her of the sound of the breaking glass from earlier. Surely someone couldn't be trying to be break in again? Nervously, she made her way to the large greenhouse extension at the back of the cottage and was startled to see the door leading out to the rear garden standing slightly ajar.
She stiffened and looked quickly around. Her gaze sharpened as she saw what had caused the noise: a column of terracotta pots had toppled over, with several smashing and breaking on the worn stone floor. There were several other columns of pots there and they all seemed to be secure. Why had this one suddenly toppled like that?
Something brushed against her leg and she shrieked and jumped. Then she looked down and clutched her chest in relief as she saw a large ginger tomcat at her feet, staring up at her with wide yellow eyes. He meowed—Poppy had never heard any cat sound like that. He had a deep, insistent voice and sounded for all the world as if he was saying: "N-ow... N-ow!"
He sprang up suddenly onto the bench, so that he was closer to her face, and rubbed his chin against her shoulder. Then he walked along the bench to the stacks of pots, weaving between them.
Ah... Poppy smiled. She was beginning to have an inkling as to why the pots had fallen.
"You're a troublemaker, aren't you?" she said with a chuckle.
"N-ow!" said the ginger tom.
She reached out to pat him, but he evaded her hands, jumping down nimbly and trotting over to the back door.
"N-ow?" he said, looking back at her.
She watched as the ginger tom slipped through the gap and out into the rear garden. She was about to shut the door after him when she heard him call insistently again.
"N-ow! N-OW!"
What on earth does he want? Poppy stepped outside. Night had almost completely fallen and the garden was just a mass of dark shapes moving in the breeze. She peered out into the darkness. She could just make out the cat—a paler shape against the black background—a short distance away.
"N-ow!" he called again.
"All right, all right... I'm coming..." muttered Poppy, picking her way carefully through the weeds.
She saw that the cat was in the middle of the cutting flowerbed, his tail twitching impatiently. Climbing over the prickly stems of some kind of bushy plant, she stepped into the bed. The soil here was softer than she'd expected and she lost her balance as the loose earth settled beneath her weight. Poppy stumbled sideways, her ankle catching against a vine of some sort, and the next moment, she pitched forwards, facedown into the dirt.
"Ommpphh!"
She lay winded for a moment, then raised herself slowly onto her elbows. There was soil on her face, neck, clothes... She sat up and tried to brush it off. "Ugh!"
"N-ow?" said the ginger tom, coming over and eyeing her curiously.
"It's all your fault!" grumbled Poppy, pushing herself to her knees and attempting to stand up.
The crumbly earth beneath her made it difficult and she groped around for a handhold. Her fingers scrabbled through the soil, brushing against fuzzy stems and floppy leaves, and then they encountered something soft and clammy.Poppy recoiled with a gasp. It sounded crazy, but it had felt like... skin.
She panicked, scooting backwards on her bum and kicking up clods of earth everywhere. The ginger tom gave a hiss of annoyance and jumped out of the way.
"N-ooow!" he said, looking at her reproachfully.
The cat's cry brought her back to her senses and Poppy gave a sheepish laugh. Of course, it can't be skin! What am I thinking?

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07NV13J5F
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ H.Y. Hanna (February 16, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 16, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1680 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 315 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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USA Today bestselling author H.Y. Hanna is the author of over 30 mystery novels, many of which have been translated into several languages. She is known for books filled with suspense, humour, and clever twists, as well as quirky characters and cats with big personalities! Her stories are often set in the historic city of Oxford, where she studied and lived for several years, as well as the beautiful English Cotswolds. After trying her hand at a variety of jobs, including advertising, modelling, teaching English and dog training, Hsin-Yi returned to her first love: writing. She worked as a freelance writer for several years and has won awards for her poetry, short stories and journalism. Hsin-Yi was born in Taiwan and has been a globe-trotter all her life, living in a variety of cultures from the UK to the Middle East, the USA to New Zealand… but is now happily settled in Perth, Western Australia, with her husband and a rescue kitty named Muesli.

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WelshDragon
5.0 out of 5 stars A very good book!
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024
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I will have to admit the story first looked like the sad dilapidated cottage the main character, Poppy saw in her first view of her cottage, but with a little work and meeting very unusual characters, the story itself blooms and grew into a very lovely book, indeed. The characters are fascinating, the plot is straightforward and easily followed. Poppy makes a few mistakes and trusts the wrong people, but she realizes her mistakes and carries herself into her new life. I most certainly recommend this book and look forward to reading the next one in the series.
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blueblazers 100
4.0 out of 5 stars superb read!
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2023
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Well concocted story with more than one protagonist. A fun read for thriller fans. Makes you want to buy a sailboat!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Meet Poppy.
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2019
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Poppy Lancaster really wants to chuck her no place job with the Cruella DeVille boss. But with no money, no home of her own and bills left by her mother's death she's stuck.
When a letter arrives announcing she is the soul heir to her grandmother's estate, she decides to change her life.
What she didn't know is a tangled mass of flowers and weeds, a dead body, an orange cat named Oren or a slightly eccentric scientist named Bertie would change her life in a way she least expected.
Poppy has decided to sell the cottage, take the money and travel. But first she wants to see it. After all, she knows nothing about her family. Didn't even know she had a grandmother. When she finds a dead body the first day there, she becomes curious and since the police won't let her leave, the DCI arranges for her to stay at her neighbor's home, famous crime writer Nick Forest and take care of his cat Oren. As you can guess Poppy isn't happy with the new brisk Sargent Lee is bullying everyone so she decides to snoop. Which turns out not to be the thing to do in this village.

As always H. Y. Hanna has given the characters wonderful personalities. And yet in Bertie she has done the impossible, made him so real that I can close my eyes and picture him working away at his inventions and poor Poppy used as a guinea pig.
This is a must read for those who like a fun cozy mystery.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Just OK
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2019
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This book was just OK. In the main, I have to agree with the negative 1 & 2 star reviewers, because the craft left a bit to be desired, but the writing itself was competent, which is more than can be said of many of the books making it to market these days. For that reason, I'd rounded upwards to 3-stars, rather than downwards. The book had a good plot and a lot of potential, but the childishly silly professor, the protagonist's endlessly silly ruminations concerning who the culprit might be, and a lack of character depth had squandered that potential. Spoiler Alerts to the End: I'd also found it a bit preposterous that a village petty criminal would have either the contacts or the resources, never mind the intelligence, to execute a sophisticated smuggling operation on behalf of the culprit, and the culprit had been obviously suspect upon initial introduction, too. I'd read on, hoping there would be a surprising twist that would unmask a different culprit, but that was not the case. There had been a lot of good elements to the story that might have been expanded to create more depth to the story, and a few realistic characters with more depth would have elevated the story enormously, also. A less fussy London neighbor might have been utilized more interestingly in the story had she not been drawn as quite such a fussy nonentity, for instance. Another factor influencing my decision to round a half-star upwards, however, had been that the author had resisted a plot device of concocting a lame and unrealistic romance with the protagonist's new neighbor. I'd half-expected the story had been going in that direction, and might have had no compunction about dropping stars to a single one had that happened. The professor would have reduced this to the level of being a children's book, but for a few of the more interesting elements that had salvaged the book a degree. A greater utilization of the cottage, garden, flower lore, village, and a few more realistic and interesting villagers with a bit of depth, might have made this an excellent book, instead of landing it on the silly and superficial end of the cozy book spectrum. I have liked some of this author's writing, and still think she has awesome potential, so had been somewhat disappointed in this particular effort.
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Brenda Telford
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and entertaining!
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2021
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Poppy was unhappy in her job in London and when she received a letter from a solicitor in Oxford to say she’d inherited her grandmother’s cottage, she wasn’t sure what to do. It had a nursery attached and Poppy knew her fingers weren’t green – the will stated she had to reopen the nursery if she was going to live there. Her journey to see her inheritance – after she quit her job – saw her arrive to a tangle of vines, weeds and a ramshackle old cottage. But on her entry, she felt immediately at home.

The discovery of a body in the garden at the back of the house shocked Poppy. But when the Detective told her she couldn’t stay in her cottage because it was a crime scene, she was offered a room next door. Poppy’s time was spent placating the big ginger tom cat, Oren, reading her gran’s gardening books, and trying to solve the mystery of the death in her garden. But could she do it?

Deadhead and Buried is the 1st in the English Cottage Garden Mysteries by Aussie author H.Y. Hanna and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Lots of fun and good entertainment, I loved Oren and his nemesis Einstein (the terrier) as well as Poppy and Nell. I’m looking forward to book 2 soon. Highly recommended.
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Louisa
4.0 out of 5 stars What a sweet book!
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024
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Even though I figured out the murderer around the middle of the book, I enjoyed the author’s writing style. And i’m glad the book is the first one in a series. So on to the next book!
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Bonny
5.0 out of 5 stars enjoyable read!
Reviewed in Canada on September 30, 2023
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Good clean mystery! Funny (but very cute) in spots at the heroines naivety and ineptness at times but a very enjoyable read.
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HENDERSON Xavier
5.0 out of 5 stars OK
Reviewed in France on January 17, 2024
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facile à lire. Un peu léger.
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Lizz
5.0 out of 5 stars intriguing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2023
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This is a delightful story with unexpected twists and turns, a smattering of romance and a daft cat. I loved it.
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Ana
4.0 out of 5 stars Simple reads
Reviewed in India on March 4, 2021
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A simple interesting plot with simple but interesting characters that make this story a real good read. The plot enfolds amazingly.
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robyn
5.0 out of 5 stars Good story
Reviewed in Australia on October 27, 2022
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I enjoyed this book. Nice light read but still had a mystery to it
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