Within this second installment of Carola Dunn’s cozy mystery series set in 1923 England, plucky Daisy Dalrymple embarks on another assignment for Town and Country magazine and discovers that daffodil lights aren’t all that’s buried within a country estate’s flower bed.

The merest hint of spring is here in Cheshire, and so has Daisy Dalrymple. The feisty flapper is usually a breath of fresh air to the occupants of gloomy Occles Hall, among them her former college chum, wallflower Bobbie Parslow, as well as the thorny mistress from the manor, Female Valeria. While photographing the barren ground behind the home, Daisy suspects someone continues to be digging amidst the soil’s 1st green shoots-and quickly unearths the corpse of Elegance Moss, the lacking parlor maid. So starts a harrowing romp as the dead woman’s shocking secret is revealed-leaving Daisy to capture a killer before she’s pushing up daisies.