Lovely Lethal Gardens Books in Order

Divorced socialite Doreen Montgomery moves into her grandmother's Kelowna house for a fresh start. When her pets uncover human remains in the garden and Nan becomes a suspect, Doreen investigates to prove her grandmother innocent.

Doreen takes a gardening job at Corporal Mack Moreau's mother's house, hoping for a calmer week. Unearthing bones among the begonias instead brings another mystery and complicates her effort to build a new life in Kelowna.

Doreen hopes a visit to Kelowna's Carnation Gardens will help her avoid further notoriety. An argument, gunshots, and bodies instead draw her into another investigation, this time connected to the long-ago disappearance of a child.

Families seeking answers draw Doreen into another cold case while news of her valuable inherited antiques attracts unwelcome attention. With her pets helping, she must investigate the disappearance and protect her home without stirring more publicity.

Doreen wants to focus on her antiques and friendships, but an accusation about Penny's late husband won't leave her alone. Looking into her new friend's past entangles her in multiple cases and the possibility of a mercy killing.

A footprint linked to a girl's decade-old disappearance reappears at a new crime scene. Ordered away from Mack's investigation, Doreen examines the older case with her pets, following clues through pawn shops and blackmail.

A biker gang's fixer blames Doreen for sending his friend to prison, then leaves a gun in a neighbor's garden. Investigating his past uncovers connections to old arson cases, despite Mack's warnings to leave matters alone.

Pink satin handcuffs discovered in a neighbor's heather send Doreen into another investigation. Using inherited reporter's files and help from her animals, she searches for a connection between a prostitute and a banker's unsolved hit-and-run death.

Doreen's parrot uncovers two metal pieces that point toward a defunct tool repair business and a girl's disappearance. Mack doubts her theories, but suspicious deaths and a missing ice pick keep drawing her deeper into the old mystery.

Mack's mother asks Doreen for help with a secret she has kept for decades. A bag of jewels, an old jewelry-store fire and possible fraud draw Doreen and her animals into a cold case with present-day consequences.

Doreen's deck renovation is interrupted when another older woman dies of an unexplained heart attack. With her animals helping, she investigates what the dead women shared and why kiwis keep appearing in a case the police are pursuing.

After someone attacks Doreen in a cemetery, her parrot Thaddeus disappears. He returns carrying an SOS message, sending Doreen along his mysterious route while Mack searches for her attacker and trouble from her divorce crowds into the investigation.

Doreen becomes a suspect when her former lawyer is murdered, despite Mack's determination to clear her. Ordered away from the investigation, she recruits her new lawyer's help, only for her estranged husband's arrival to make an already complicated situation worse.

Doreen's chance to recover from recent turmoil disappears when a gardener is kidnapped while collecting nasturtiums. His niece asks for help, drawing Doreen into another investigation even as her ex-husband continues to complicate her attempt at a fresh start.

Doreen and Mack visit an orchid show hoping for a quiet outing together. When a gardener dies shortly after their visit, the investigation exposes darker dealings among orchid growers and links a fresh death with an older murder.

Doreen's lakeside outing takes a troubling turn when she discovers poison among pansies. Hearing about a recent poisoning and an elderly woman's ignored warnings draws her into an investigation that soon overlaps with Corporal Mack Moreau's case.

A visit to a consignment shop draws Doreen into a tangled theft involving an elderly man, his former fiancée and a valuable ring. A possible reward encourages her to investigate, while Mack worries about her new friendship.

Doreen watches in horror as Mack is shot during an outing to Rosemoor. Determined to identify the attacker before another attempt, she sets out to investigate while the injured corporal worries about the danger she faces.

The police captain asks Doreen to investigate a cold case connected to his childhood. With forty years obscuring the evidence and Mack still recovering from injury, she faces an unusually personal request she is determined to answer.