Meet Paula Holliday, a transplanted media exec who trades her stilettos for garden clogs when she makes the move from the big city to the suburbs to start a gardening business. Paula can handle deer, slugs, and the occasional human pest---but she’s not prepared for the mummified body she finds while restoring the gardens at Halcyon, a local landmark.
Casual snooping turns serious when a body is impaled on a garden tool and one of Paula’s friends is arrested for the crime.
Aided by the still-hot aging rocker who owns the neighborhood greasy spoon, a wise-cracking former colleague, and a sexy Mexican laborer with a few secrets of his own, Paula digs for the truth and unearths more dirty business the town has kept buried for years.
Rosemary Harris writes traditional mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Paula Holliday. In her debut novel, PUSHING UP DAISIES, Paula - a transplanted city girl who moves to the suburbs - finds a mummified body. That book was inspired by a real mummified body found not far from Rosemary's home in suburban Connecticut and was nominated for both the Agatha and the Anthony for Best First Novel of 2008.
Her latest paperback, DEAD HEAD, asks the question, "How well do we really know our neighbors?" when one of Paula's clients, a well-liked and respected member of the community is discovered to be a fugitive from the law.
NPR (CT) called it "..a perfect summer read" and RT Magazine gave it "4 Stars!"
Laced with lots of humor, the series has been called "quirky, original and captivating" Carolyn Hart, "a wild and funny ride" Crimespree Magazine, "one of the best first fiction titles of 2008" Library Journal, "a nifty puzzle" Publishers Weekly and "hilarious" Kirkus Reviews.
She is the 2011 president of Mystery Writers of America, NY Chapter (inc. PA, NJ and CT) and past president of Sisters in Crime New England. She blogs at www.jungleredwriters.com with Julia Spencer Fleming, Deborah Crombie, Hallie Ephron, Rhys Bowen, Jan Brogan, Roberta Isleib and Hank Phillippi Ryan. Pretty good company!
When she's not writing or reading, Harris finds time for gardening, hiking the national parks and volunteering at Habitat for Humanity. She and her husband have been on 8 HFH trips including builds in New Orleans, Cambodia, Mexico, Tanzania, El Salvador and China. With the help of many friends in the book publishing industry, they have founded a community library in central Tanzania. They live - with a large golden retriever - in NYC and Fairfield County, CT.
She may be reached at www.rosemaryharris.com
TEN THINGS YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW ABOUT ROSEMARY
SHE..
1- OWNS 500 COOKIE CUTTERS (AND LOVES TO BAKE)
2- IS A MASTER GARDENER
3- MADE IT TO THE TOP OF MT. KILIMANJARO
4- PRODUCED A VIDEO ON SIGN LANGUAGE FOR THE DEAF
5- HAS MET THREE FIRST LADIES
6- KISSED PETE TOWNSEND
7- TREKKED TO EVEREST BASE CAMP
8- WISHES SHE COULD SING LIKE PATSY CLINE AND PLAY TENNIS LIKE ROGER FEDERER
9- COLLECTS UGLY LAMPS FROM THE 40S AND 50S
10-LETS HER DOG SLEEP ON THE BED EVEN THOUGH IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE UNHEALTHY
