A Succulent Sleuth Cozy Mystery: Book 3
Publication Date: June 2, 2026
Volunteer water sampling. Development deals. A dead businessman in the woods.
While volunteering with a local stream restoration group, Molly and her husband, Scott, expect to end the day with nothing more to show for it than muddy hiking shoes and water samples. Instead, they stumble upon a dead body left in the woods behind the Buckeye Trail. The victim turns out to be Upton North—an unpopular developer with business ties to half the town and enemies to match.
As Molly starts asking questions, she uncovers a web of grudges involving tenants, activists, and business owners. She’ll have to follow clues from forest trails to forgotten basements—and confront just how far greed and intimidation pushed the wrong person too far.
With a busy garden center to manage, and a beloved black and white cat occasionally underfoot, Molly digs into another Succulent Sleuth case where the roots of the crime run deep.
Molly and her husband didn’t expect to find a dead body while volunteering with their local stream restoration group, but once they do, Molly is on the case in Iris March’s The Corpse by the Creek.
Cozy mysteries set in small towns with lots of friends and family around, to me, are the perfect backdrop for a murder mystery. Ms. March plots a fast-paced, highly entertaining, amusing story that kept my interest throughout. I like losing all sense of time and place, and that is a mark of a great book.
Molly, the lead, is funny and very likable. I didn’t find her annoying or overly pushy. She is realistic, dogged, as any good detective should be, naturally curious, and gets things done. I highly enjoyed her character.
Molly’s cat, Sherlock (such an appropriate name for a crime-solving cat), is a great companion and adds levity in all the right places.
The Corpse by the Creek blends humor, a dogged amateur sleuth, and her feline companion for a delightful cozy read.
Iris March has a reputation for killing house plants and now she’s killing people off in books? Coincidence? Perhaps not. Iris has spent two decades working in the sustainability field and is usually either reading a book or on a trail. She lives in Ohio with her husband, son, and three cats.
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