by Ann Ripley
With a flair for the dramatic combined with a comforting sense of the mundane, Louise Eldridge is both an intrepid inquisitor and a gossipy gardener. She has never met a murder she didn’t think she could solve and is frequently embroiled in mayhem. Along with her job as gardening maven on PBS’s WTBA-TV, and her own demanding show garden, Louise hosts an unending stream of houseguests, all of which activity her endlessly patient husband Bill, a CIA agent, calmly handles.
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Description: Amateur gardener and housewife Louise Eldridge has big plans for her family’s new home. But barely has she turned the topsoil when her organic mulching unearths the unidentifiable remains of a murder victim.
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Description: Louise is asked by the Northern Virginia public television station to help host an organic gardening show. Once she accepts, she discovers herself in a behind-the-media-scenes world of backbiting and jealousy.
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Description: Louise, co-host of Washington, D.C., public television’s Gardening with Nature, finds herself embroiled in presidential politics and overwhelmed by houseguests -and she’s not sure which is worse.
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Description: Louise and family join a tour staying at a fabulous 18th-century mansion turned inn owned by an aristocratic old woman. Unhappy events soon awaken Louise’s suspicious mind…
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Description: On location in Colorado, Louise Eldridge can see why this beautiful terrain is as precious as gold. Then the pure Rocky Mountain air is fouled by the discovery of elderly rancher Jimmy Porter’s body.
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Description: This time out, Louise Eldridge finds herself caught up in the chaos of a holiday feast, a new high-tech job.. .and a brutal murder in her own backyard.
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Description: Louise Eldridge is again on the case when a rival garden show host is found pushing up daisies.
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Description: Louise comes to the Bethesda Garden Club’s famous spring plant sale hoping to get great footage for her show. But chats take a back seat to sleuthing when club president Catherine Freeman is shot point-blank in her own driveway.
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Description: Five years ago, Louise identified Peter Hoffman as the “mulch murderer.” Now he’s been released from a Virginia state mental institution.
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Description: Kauai is the perfect place for Louise to film a few episodes of her show, especially since an elite botanical conference is taking place at her hotel. Her taste of paradise comes to a halt when three prima donna botanists arrive–especially when one of them is found battered to death.
