New York: St Martin's, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second gardening mystery, featuring Bretta Solomon, who has been combining her work as a florist in River City, Missouri, with restoring her new home, the historic Beauchamp mansion - but at a preview dinner party just before Christmas, the former owner, River City matriarch Cameo Beauchamp is strangled in a roomful of people during a momentary blackout. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-312203829.