Dirty Books:
Fiction Set In and Around the Garden

Radical Prunings: A Novel of Officious Advice from the Contessa of Compost
Bonnie Thomas Abbott

Garden Spells
Sarah Addison Allen

The Greenhouse
Auður A. Όlafsdóttir

In the Garden of Iden: A Novel of the Company*
Kage Baker

Rose's Garden
Carrie Brown

Consider the Lily
Elizabeth Buchan

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins

The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbough

Nice Girls Do
Sarah Duncan

The Trail of the Wild Rose*
Anthony Eglin

Second Thyme Around
Katie Fforde

Earthly Joys
Philippa Gregory

The Winter Garden
Kristin Hannah

The Poyson Garden: An Elizabethan Mystery*
Karen Harper

Slugfest: A Dirty Business Mystery*
Rosemary Harris

Reap a Wicked Harvest: A Gardening Mystery*
Janis Harrison

Garden of Faith
J. Lynne Hinton

Summer of the Big Bachi
Naomi Hirahara

The Lost Garden
Helen Humphreys

The First Gardener
Denise Hildreth Jones

The Garden Club Mystery
Graham Landrum

Perfect Poison
Joyce and Jim Lavene

A Lovesome Thing
Prue Leith

Susannah’s Garden
Debbie Macomber

Od Magic
Patricia A. McKillip

When the Bough Breaks
Connie Monk

The French Gardener
The Mermaid Garden
Santa Montefiore

A Garden of Earthly Delights
Joyce Carol Oates

An Ocean Apart
Robin Pilcher

Death in the Orchid Garden: A Gardening Mystery*
Ann Ripley

Blue Dahlia
Nora Roberts

The Marriage Bed
Diana Saville

On Hummingbird Wings
Lauraine Snelling

Flowerbed of State*
Dorothy St. James

Trouble in Spades: A Nina Quinn Mystery*
Heather S. Webber

The Welcome Home Garden Club*
Lori Wilde

Miranda Blue Calling
Michelle Curry Wright

* Indicates part of a series

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