"Inheriting her late aunt's Massachusetts farm is no gift for app developer Mabel Skinner, who is about to learn that even the best-grown garlic can't ward off murderous intent... After a heated dispute over grass clippings with an obsessive local rhubarb breeder, she discovers something even more distressing--the breeder in question undisputedly dead in his greenhouse. Uncomfortably aware that she might be a prime suspect, Mabel stops digging in...

"Mabel Skinner still hasn't acquired a taste for growing garlic, but the app developer-turned farmer does have a nose for rooting out killers. Dreaming she'll someday return to her less pungent life of computer coding, Mabel continues to honor her deceased aunt's legacy by running Skinner Farm. To make ends meet between harvests, she's renting out the property's mercifully downwind lavender field for summer weddings. Mabel's first clients are a retirement...