Marty Wingate Books in Order

A practical guide for Northwest yards, side spaces, decks, and balconies. Wingate shows how to plan, plant, and make even a tight urban plot feel full of color, texture, and purpose.

This detailed reference helps Northwest gardeners choose, combine, and care for perennials that thrive in the region. It pairs plant profiles with straightforward advice on design, light, water, and maintenance.

A pictorial history of Bellevue Botanical Garden's first fifteen years, highlighting its signature gardens, the people who built them, and the ideas visitors can take home.

A smart guide to creating seclusion outdoors without making a yard feel closed in. Wingate covers plants, structures, and design ideas for screening views, softening noise, and shaping more comfortable spaces.

An updated regional guide to 500 perennials suited to Pacific Northwest gardens. Wingate helps readers pick reliable plants, understand growing conditions, and build flower beds that work through the seasons.

Pru Parke leaves Dallas for London hoping to build a new life as a gardener. When a Roman mosaic dig leads her to a bludgeoned corpse in Chelsea, she has to outthink a killer to stay in England.

Pru lands her dream job restoring a historic Sussex estate shaped by Humphry Repton's plans. But vandalism, family questions, and a murder among the yews turn her grand project into a dangerous puzzle.

While planning her wedding, Pru heads to Edinburgh to help authenticate an old botanist's journal. A dead colleague and whispers of forgery pull her into another knotty case.

Forced out of her cottage by toxic mold, Julia winds up living at the Hall while estate tensions simmer. Then poisoned sparrowhawks and a murdered visitor send her and Michael looking for a killer.

Julia Lanchester quits her father's nature show and starts over in a Suffolk tourist office. When her celebrity ornithologist father disappears, Julia and his assistant Michael uncover a tangle of family secrets and murder.

Pru is helping create a Chelsea Flower Show display celebrating Texas bluebonnets when the woman leading it turns up dead. To save the show and find the truth, she and Christopher dig into Twyla's final days.

Living at Greenoak with her new husband, Pru expects gardening problems, not buried wartime wreckage. When a German plane and human bones surface on the estate, old secrets become deadly.

A Cotswolds getaway becomes work when Pru agrees to restore a neglected Arts and Crafts garden. Then the owner is found crushed beneath a statue, and the peaceful countryside turns surprisingly dangerous.

Julia finally seems settled in work and love until her ex-husband is murdered on the Fotheringill estate. When suspicion falls near home and Michael disappears, Julia has to chase the truth herself.

A village wedding and Michael's chaotic sister Pammy are enough to keep Julia busy. Then a body turns up on the estate, Pammy is the last to see the man alive, and Julia is pulled into another messy case.

Pru is hired to help create woodland magic for an outdoor production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Offstage feuds soon turn fatal, and rehearsals become the perfect place for sleuthing.

This short holiday mystery follows Pru as she battles Christmas dinner and her own nerves in the kitchen. A strange plant seller at the local market adds a quiet thread of mystery to the festivities.

Hayley Burke lands a dream job curating a Bath library devoted to Golden Age crime writers, even though she's barely read one. When a member of a fan fiction group is killed in the stacks, her new start is at risk.

Hayley is preparing a major exhibition on Lady Fowling when she reluctantly hires her difficult former boss to help. A missing rare book and a body at the bottom of a staircase turn the job into murder investigation.

Back at Greenoak, Pru joins a project to create a medieval herb garden near Winchester. When a wealthy supporter is found hanged beside a suspicious herbal mixture, she and Christopher face a case rooted in old grudges.

Rosalie Wright dreams of flying, but war and family duty seem to ground her for good. Joining the effort to ferry warplanes across Britain gives her the sky back, along with danger, heartbreak, and hard choices.

When Hayley's library finally opens to the public, a stranger appears claiming Lady Fowling was his grandmother. Before the truth can be sorted out, murder and family secrets threaten the collection again.

In 1957 Suffolk, Olive Kersey gets a second chance when her childhood friend opens Mersea House as lodgings and hires her to help run it. New tenants, a vulnerable child, and old secrets test the fragile home they are building.

Chaperoning a carefree American heiress to a glamorous night out sounds simple enough. Then someone dies before the music stops, and Mabel has to protect her charge while tracking a killer through London's dance scene.

Mabel is sent to assist at a séance and ends up switching on the lights to a corpse. As Scotland Yard circles and ghostly claims multiply, she and Park Winstone hunt for a very earthly killer.

Newly hired by the Useful Women's Agency in 1921 London, Mabel Canning finds a dead soldier on a wealthy client's doorstep. The letter in his hand points to an older disappearance and a very live danger.

At a suffragette conference in the country, Mabel barely settles in before a leading campaigner is found murdered. With tensions high and secrets everywhere, the London Ladies' Murder Club steps in.

As war closes in on England, Louisa Brightford turns her house into a boarding school for evacuated children. Caring for frightened youngsters, especially little Gracie, becomes even harder as loss and danger draw near.