Ann Ripley
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Series
Pub. Date
1998
Description
TV gardener Louise Eldridge, who is married to a Washington CIA agent, receives a call from a college beau, a journalist in town to do a political story. The Eldridges put him up in their house and several days later find him dead in a neighbor's fish pond. Louise investigates.
3) Mulch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Organic gardner/television host Louise Eldridge is filling in the low spots of her garden with grass collected from the neighborhood. When body parts start turning up in the mulch, Louise begins an investigation.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Description
While recovering from wounds she suffered in Mulch, Louise Eldridge, gardener and wife of a CIA agent, 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. Despite the wholehearted support of the show's producer, Louise is upstaged by her cohost, John Batchelder, who keeps giving himself extra lines,...
Author
Series
Gardening mysteries (Ann Ripley) volume 8
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
When Louise Eldridge covers the spring plant sale of the venerable Bethesda Garden Club for her television show, she finds blue-blooded traditions, deeply rooted resentments--and fertile ground for murder...
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Series
Gardening mysteries (Ann Ripley) volume 6
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
A dog-walking professor friend of series sleuth and PBS-TV garden show host Louise Eldridge (The Garden Tour Affair) regales her with tales of his younger days in the Brazilian jungles. Just before his murder, however, he tells her of a good health-and-longevity plant he discovered there and has begun propagating for eventual commercial sale. Louise later works in his lab where various greedy suspects come trooping along so police actually ask for...
Author
Series
Gardening mysteries (Ann Ripley) volume 10
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Louise Eldridge, host of a PBS show, Gardening with Nature, is on location to the Hawaiian island of Kauai, the lush setting for an elite botanical conference. Louise has scheduled a panel featuring an explosive mix of egos and agenda from plant explorer and entrepreneur Dr. Bruce Bouting, pharmaceutical company consultant Dr. Matthew Flynn, environmentalist Dr. Charles Reuter and Pacific Island plant expert Dr. Tom Schoonover. But on a sunset walk...
Author
Series
Gardening mysteries (Ann Ripley) volume 9
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Garden show host Louise Eldridge finds her career and life in danger when she is accused of murdering a former mental patient who harbored a grudge against her, and as she sets out to dig up the truth, she unearths dark secrets about her neighbors.
Author
Series
Gardening mysteries (Ann Ripley) volume 7
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Description
"Sex sells ... even in the home garden market. And Louise Eldridge, with her ratings fading faster than the last rose of summer, finds her once-popular PBS gardening show becoming the latest victim of one Bunny Bainfield. With her plunging necklines and extreme short shorts, the bodacious Bunny makes pruning, mulching, and planting into an erotic adventure, and her highly successful ''Bunny in the Garden'' label is turning the once rarefied world...
