Teaser Tuesday 114: A Rose From the Dead

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current book or recent read.
* Share a few “teaser” sentences from somewhere in the book.
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away. You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teaser!


Just finished A Rose From the Dead by Kate Collins, book six in her "Flower Shop Mystery" series. I was a bit worried as many had told me this was their least favorite book of the lot, but there were actually quite a few laugh-out-loud moments in this one.

NOTE: This is one of my favorite series, but I do recommend reading from the beginning (Mum's the Word), as the books do build on each other, or reference events/people in previous installments.



"Eli isn't your concern, so just erase this whole incident from your mind, and let's get back to what you came here to do, okay?"

"Fine. It's erased."

"Good."

Men are so guillible.

(pg 30)


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In this scene, Abby and Marco are searching the room of cosmetician, Sybil Blount. This scene had me literally laughing out loud. I may have also woken the neighbors, hehe...

I heard him open the closet door and suddenly I
remembered the dummy heads. "Wait, Marco! There are—"

"Shit!"

Too late. I peered around the corner at him. "I see you found the heads."

(pg 141)



ABOUT THE BOOK:

Who knew death could be so much fun?

Abby is amused by the black humor of the usually somber "death professionals" who are attending the Midwestern Funeral Directors Association’s regional convention. Even organizer Sybil Blount—known for her cutthroat business practice and the signature rose she wears in her wig—isn’t what Abby expects…especially when her corpse is found in a casket.

When Abby’s friend Delilah Dove becomes a suspect, Abby shifts into full investigation mode and learns that Sybil’s enemies included the prankster sons of a big-time funeral director an eco-friendly purveyor of "green burials," and a strange Goth girl who captures the "music" of the departing souls on her tape recorder. It’s up to Abby and her boyfriend, Marco, to look beyond the trappings of death and find out who really loved Sybil—and who loved her not.