Catherine Moloney

When school’s out, headteacher Catherine Leckie loves nothing more than pottering in her garden shed. This time, someone is there waiting…

They leave her body lying among the gardening tools. Strangled.

It’s up to Detective Markham to weed out the murderer from a long list of suspects. But the deeper he digs into Catherine’s secrets, the more dirt he finds.

Secret trysts and bitter grudges - the frosty ground of Beauclair Drive Allotments is a hotbed of intrigue.

When Markham’s prime suspect is found pushing up daisies - on the same allotments - he realises no one is safe from this brutal killer.

Can Markham crack the case before more green-fingered victims die?

Book 20 in the Detective Markham series.