As the wedding florist and one of the last people to talk to Mark Baxter alive, Simmy gradually becomes involved with the grief-ridden and angry relatives. All seem to have their fair share of secrets and scandals—a distant mother, a cheating father, and a husband twenty-five years older than his bride. When events take another sinister turn, all eyes turn to the groom and his close-knit friends, each more secretive and volatile than the next. As a prime witness, Simmy finds herself at the heart of a murder investigation that could undo a family and a whole town …
Rebecca Tope is the author of four murder mystery series—featuring Den Cooper, Devon police detective; Drew Slocombe, undertaker; Thea Osborne, house sitter in the Cotswolds; and now Persimmon Brown, Lake District florist. She is also a "ghostwriter" of the novels based on the ITV series Rosemary & Thyme.