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While Siobhán studies for her Detective Sargeant exams, her brother, Eoin, prepares for the grand opening of his new restaurant, The O'Sullivan Six, and concocts a plan to enter Kilbane's Top Garden Contest to boost business. But trouble brews when Eoin hires a mercurial landscape designer known for her killer designs. His new partner's unflattering reputation and questionable practices nearly eclipse her talents—and plunge the prestigious competition into chaos.
A lush and intricate winning garden emerges from the controversy, with a spectacular golden statue in the center of the display. But in a devastating twist, the work of art leads to the shocking discovery of a bold and brutal work of murder.
Everyone in town has an opinion about who committed the crime and planted the evidence, from easily bribed sponsors to green-with-envy gardeners. And with another golden statue found in Eoin's garden display, rumors about his involvement intensify. As local gossip buzzes and a list of suspects grows, it's up to quick-witted Siobhán and her husband, Macdara, to suss out the guilty culprit's identity . . . before the competition buries another victim.
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- ISBN: 9781496744517
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- ISBN: 9781496744517
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February 1, 2025
A garden competition turns deadly in a bustling Irish village. All of Kilbane is buzzing with excitement, and not only because of the chainsaws and drills working to get ready for the opening of The Six, the new restaurant Eoin O'Sullivan named for himself and his five siblings. The first day of Kilbane's Top Garden Contest is upon the town, and the contestants are rushing to finish their creations, each of them hidden from eager eyes by a white tent. There's been no end of fuss about whether one of the contestants, professional garden designer Cassidy Ryan, should be allowed to compete in what's always been an amateur event. Now it's time to reveal whether Cassidy's creation can live up to the hype. Well, "live up to" turns out to be exactly wrong, since the centerpiece of Cassidy's garden turns out to be her own decapitated body. Garda Siobh�n O'Sullivan and her handsome husband, DS Macdara Flannery, focus their investigation of Cassidy's demise on her fellow contestants, with a reporter, her fiance, a bookstore clerk, and the owner of a garden supply shop playing supporting roles. This narrow lens fails to do Kilbane justice. From the beginning, O'Connor shows an eye for the quirky pleasures of Irish country life, but she fails to capitalize on her own sharp vision, wasting her opportunity to make Kilbane a joy to her reader in order to plant a bouquet of red herrings in the service of a silly solution to the puzzle. More local color, please.COPYRIGHT(2025) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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