Petals are pretty, stems are green, but secrets next door? Deadly unseen.

 

Memorial Day in New Chapel, Indiana, promises fireworks and festivities, but the night explodes with more than celebration. As the town gathers at the high school to watch the sky light up, a gunshot pierces the darkness—masked by the thunder of the holiday display. When Abby Knight Salvare, owner of Bloomers Flower Shop, learns the victim is her assistant Lottie’s troublesome neighbor, Garth Schmidt, she’s thrust into a mystery where every house on the block hides a suspect.

 

Garth was a man with a temper and a gun always at his side, but who finally turned it against him? Lottie’s quadruplet sons are in the crosshairs, with the lead detective zeroing in on one—yet Abby smells a setup. With her husband Marco Salvare, the rugged ex-Army Ranger, by her side, Abby unearths a neighborhood tangled in grudges, lies, and buried truths. Was it the victim’s tight-lipped wife? A vengeful resident across the street? Or does the teenage boy taking the fall hold the key to it all?

 

As the summer heat rises and the stakes climb higher, Team Salvare must root out the killer before an innocent life withers away. Can Abby prune the suspects and deliver justice—or will New Chapel’s friendly streets remain a garden of deadly secrets? Find out in A Vase in the Window, the latest Flower Shop Mystery from New York Times best-selling author Kate Collins.