Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted

Former lawyer turned floral shop owner/operator Abby Knight is not only supplying the flowers but, much to her chagrin, is in the bridal party of her shallow cousin Jillian Knight in her marriage to wealthy Claymore Osbourne. Abby is able to convince her "not boyfriend", former detective turned bar owner Marco Salvare, to be a last minute fill-in groomsman, ostensibly her date. While some potential fireworks at the wedding are already averted in Abby's retired police officer father Jeffrey Knight being disinvited in he and Clay's mother Glory Osbourne having a not so pleasant history, other issues also have the potential to derail the day, including Glory regardless overtaking the event, or Jillian actually making it to the altar this time in she already having called off weddings at the last minute with a plethora of other men. But something does overtake the day: the murder on site of a wedding attendee, who was killed by blunt force trauma to the head with a crystal punch bowl. Abby and Marco can't help but investigate on their own outside of the police investigation, they having an upper hand in Abby knowing many of the players. Abby has some difficult discussions in some suspects being friends or relatives, who would have had motive. But their investigation places them in danger at the hands of the murderer.