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Murder in the Gardens: A 1920s Historical Mystery (Penelope Banks Murder Mysteries Book 4) Kindle Edition

by Colette Clark (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,754 ratings
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You are cordially invited to the grand opening of the Japanese Tea Gardens on the rooftop of the Grand Opal Hotel…

New York 1925

To celebrate its official opening, the Grand Opal Hotel is hosting an exclusive party for the crème de la crème of New York society, to be held in its newly completed rooftop Japanese Tea Gardens.

Jiro Ishida, the gardens’ designer is l'homme du moment. Everyone is clamoring for his services to recreate the latest trend in garden aesthetic.

Which is why it’s a surprise when he turns up dead in the koi pond.

Once again, Penelope “Pen” Banks is on the case, if only to solve a murder the owner of the hotel and several of its wealthy guests would rather see buried beneath the bonsai trees.

Murder in the Gardens is the fourth book in the Penelope Banks Mystery series set in 1920s New York. The enjoyment of a historical mystery combined with the excitement and daring of New York during Prohibition and the Jazz Age.

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    Penelope Banks Murder Mysteries
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    280 pages
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    June 21, 2022
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B43N44X6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (June 21, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 21, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2442 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,754 ratings

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Colette Clark

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Colette Clark lives in New York and has always enjoyed learning more about the history of her amazing city. She decided to combine that curiosity and love of learning with her addiction to reading and watching mysteries. Her first series, Penelope Banks Murder Mysteries is the result of those passions. When she’s not writing she can be found doing Sudoku puzzles, drawing, eating tacos, visiting museums dedicated to unusual/weird/wacky things, and, of course, reading mysteries by other great authors.

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4.4 out of 5 stars
4.4 out of 5
1,754 global ratings

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WelshDragon
5.0 out of 5 stars A very enjoyable book
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2023
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I enjoyed this story, very much. This main character, Penelope Banks, is one very savvy lady and an excellent private investigator. The plot is easily followed, the characters are all interesting in each of their ways, and the story is intriguing to say the least. I most definitely recommend this book.
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Elena deMurias
4.0 out of 5 stars an international twist!
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2023
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An interesting mystery with Japan, bonsai trees and imported drugs. It takes place in NYC in a new hotel with a Japanese theme.
Her main characters from earlier book reappear which brings everyone together again. As always I look forward to seeing where the stories will take us next……in the history and action of NYC!
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Pamela Maher
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprise ending
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2024
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Good read. This one had a good plot twist. Having been to Japan, it was nice to revisit it through the book. I bet the hotel would have looked beautiful. The book flows and I really like Pen
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Meg Hadley
5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling to the End
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2022
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Five stars are a rare rating for me, but Murder in the Gardens earned it. Interesting characters and a challenging plot held my attention from beginning to end.
This is a fun series—all the classic elements of an enjoyable “cozy””,” plus a bit of historical and social observations thrown in.
As with all the books in this series, they stand alone, BUT the relationships will make more sense if you begin with #. 1 then read them in order.
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WYBound
4.0 out of 5 stars A New Cozy Mystery Series
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2022
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I took a chance on this new series, and I'm glad I did. The books, to date, are well written, entertaining, and don't overdo, as so many of this genre do, the female amateur sleuth showing up the inept police, etc. While there is amateur "meddling" by the female protagonist in this series, the police detective is clever himself. A welcome change.
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LS
3.0 out of 5 stars Nice but needs editing
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2023
The main character is very much like the character Phryne Fisher in “miss fishers murder mysteries” series. A wealthy, fun-loving character who isn’t very concerned about convention. The stories are fun but the bad grammar and questionable sentence structure can be very distracting. For example, there is a phrase “a silk robe almost similar to the kimono she had been wearing”. Something can’t be ‘almost similar’. It’s either “similar” or it’s “almost like” something. In one place I read “foisted himself on his own petard”. That doesn’t even make sense and the actual phrase is from Shakespeare and reads “hoisted himself on his own petard”. There are phrases like this throughout the book and I really wish that before these are published that someone would go through them and correct such unnecessary distractions. It stops the flow of the book, confuses the meaning of sentences, and is annoying.
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S. Bailey
5.0 out of 5 stars love the storyline
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2023
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Kept me guessing till the very end I enjoy the main character and the historical highlights throughout the book. Well done.
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j dietz
5.0 out of 5 stars Nobody Is As They Seem
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2023
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Quite interesting book. I love the Penelope Banks books. She is learning so much as the series goes on. Amazing what kind of trouble 'the Haves an the Wanna Bes get into just for money.
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Lorne Duffin
5.0 out of 5 stars A nice trip back to 1924 New York
Reviewed in Canada on February 11, 2023
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Once again a smooth flowing story with a touch of romance and intrigue
A good relaxing read
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Trisha
5.0 out of 5 stars Greed
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2023
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The people who get in the way of others committing a crime are killed. Covering up such deeds takes a lot of working out.
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