Böcker av Jill Johnson

After a turbulent police investigation comes to an end, Professor Rose is on her own personal mission. With a new lease of life after discovering her birth mother and reuniting with a long-lost plant, Eustacia finds herself with burning questions. Who destroyed her garden in the first place and will she ever find the rest of her stolen poisonous plants?Eustacia wants to ask for help from DCI Roberts - but risking the confiscation of any more plants is too dangerous.She begins a solitary journey into the world of rare and unusual botanicals and, surprisingly, encounters a similarly remarkable acquaintance. But when they delve deeper into the art of organised plant theft, Professor Rose realises that it is not only plants who can mysteriously disappear as Jessica, her mother, suddenly vanishes. With an unlikely team of helpers, Eustacia must navigate carefully in order to hold on to her remaining family and find out who destroyed her life's work. Oh . . . and then there's a small matter of a baby.

Eustacia Rose's life is beginning to return to normal: she is back teaching at UCL and her relationship with Matilde is blossoming. But when a man is found dead with a needle in his neck, that fragile peace begins to crumble. Eustacia finds a painting of herself stabbed with a syringe and discovers that there are other people who seem to know more about the killing than they are letting on. The threat around Eustacia only increases as a PhD student begins to stalk and harass her to gain access to her poisonous plant collection. After Eustacia continually refuses, he contacts a lab that is illegally selling synthetic plant toxins but turns up dead shortly after. As the body count rises, Eustacia has no choice but to investigate the deaths in earnest.

Could this Sub get any wackier? The new Sub needs an attitude check. The Sub doesn't quite know about children yet. She thinks children are pesky little people who need a good lesson. In reality, she's deathly scared of them. She tries to cover it up with a strong exterior. But things soon spiral out of control in the class. Revenge isn't sweet, or is it? When the students misbehave, she takes her revenge. She soon learns that revenge is two-sided and gets what's coming to her from the unruliest kid in the classroom.

I've always been better with plants than people . But when her precious garden is vandalized and someone close to Simone is murdered with a toxin derived from a rare poisonous plant, Eustacia finds herself implicated in the crime and decides to take matters into her own hands .