Cozy MysterySilver SleuthSmall-Town Mystery
The Garden Club Alibi
by Sloane Vale
June Holloway found Arthur Bell dead before she found the missing raffle tickets.
She had gone into the potting room because Mabel Price insisted the blue ticket book had been left beside the seed scales.
The Garden Swap could survive three hundred unnumbered tomato plants.
The victim died holding a seed packet from a nursery closed for forty years. The police found her best friend's protest letter in his pocket. Then June saw her own retired library stamp on the evidence.
25 chapters available · Updated Jul 19, 2026
Chapters
1Chapter 1: The Packet From a Dead Nursery2Chapter 2: Tea Before Statements3Chapter 3: Mabel's Missing Twelve Minutes4Chapter 4: The Library Stamp5Chapter 5: Foxglove on the Cuff6Chapter 6: The Wrong Medicine7Chapter 7: A Pharmacist's Locked Drawer8Chapter 8: The Garden Map With No North9Chapter 9: A Photograph Sold Twice10Chapter 10: The Broadcast Alibi11Chapter 11: The Cordial Jar Turned Inward12Chapter 12: The Death Window Moves13Chapter 13: The Protest They Buried14Chapter 14: A Councillor's Good Cause15Chapter 15: The Man Arthur Blackmailed16Chapter 16: Seeds in Alphabetical Order17Chapter 17: The Date on the Release18Chapter 18: The House Was Never for Sale19Chapter 19: The Girl With the Camera20Chapter 20: The Umbrella at the Door21Chapter 21: Four Minutes in a Potting Room22Chapter 22: The Vote Before the Arrest23Chapter 23: A Trap Made of Seed Packets24Chapter 24: What Beatrice Meant to Do25Chapter 25: The Garden Exhales