Gardening Can Be Murder

This was a really fun read. It would be perfect as a coffee table book or a bedside table book where you could read little sub chapters before bed. The author clearly has a passion for crime fiction and gardening. The author was incredibly well read on the crime fiction genre and provided lots of book references throughout the text (and provided a handy book list at the back). This book looks at the different famous crime writers who used gardening, plants and poison to write great crime fiction such as Agatha Christie, Ruth Ware, Naomi Hirahara, Arthur Conan Doyle and more.

The book looks into topics such as means, motive, settings, clues, gardening detectives and suspects. A really detailed and pleasurable read that was clearly a love letter to the authors life passions.

Thanks to the publisher Timber Press, author Marta McDowell and Netgalley for a review copy in exchange for an honest review