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  • Saffron Everleigh Mystery, Book 2
  • By: Kate Khavari
  • Narrated by: Jodie Harris
  • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality

By: Kate Khavari
Narrated by: Jodie Harris
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Publisher's Summary

1920s London isn’t the ideal place for a brilliant woman with lofty ambitions, but research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to beat the odds in a male-dominated field at the University College of London. She embarks on her first research study alongside the insufferably charming Dr. Michael Lee, traveling the countryside with him in response to reports of poisonings. But when Detective Inspector Green is given a case with a set of unusual clues, he asks for her assistance.

The victims, all women, received bouquets filled with poisonous flowers. Digging deeper, Saffron discovers that the bouquets may be more than just unpleasant flowers—there may be a hidden message within them, revealed through the use of the old Victorian practice of floriography. And it's a dire message indeed, as each woman who received the flowers has turned up dead.

Alongside Dr. Lee and her best friend, Elizabeth, Saffron trails a group of suspects through a dark jazz club, a lavish country estate, and a glittering theatre, delving deeper into a part of society she thought she’d left behind forever.

Will Saffron be able to catch the killer before they send their next bouquet, or will she find herself with fatal flowers of her own?

©2023 Kate Khavari (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

Critic Reviews

"Narrator Jodie Harris employs a competent, confident voice for Saffron, which she alternates with a gossipy, flighty voice when Saffron is undercover. Amid the large cast of characters, Harris ensures that Saffron’s passion for justice is audibly clear [...] A winner for academic- and historical-mystery fans and lovers of floriography."—Library Journal, Starred Review

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Enjoyable mystery

Interesting storyline and great characters. Absolutely love Saffron as a female scientist from the time period. Story a bit repetitive anf predictable at times. Good narration. Overall I enjoyed this story and look forward to the next in series

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Fun period mystery

I enjoyed this 1920s murder mystery with a woman botanist from UCL as the sleuth. Not sure about some of the modernism used such as 'bleeding out' but overall the period detail is well done.

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Easy and enjoyable

Not a taxing read by any stretch, but very enjoyable. Good performance by the narrator, she gets quite animated in the ‘action scenes’!
I would love to hear more about Eliza and her poets club.
Anyway I’m glad it’s 100 years later and I don’t get judged for not wearing stockings.

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