The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree by Susan Wittig Albert 3 stars

[Rachel N.]

The Dahlia gardening club in fictional Darling, Alabama has just inherited a new club house. They become involved in trouble at the bank(problematic since it is 1930), an escaped convict and a dead body. There are 12 members of the Dahlias, plus all the other characters, and I had trouble keeping everyone straight. The only people I knew for certain who they were without having to look in the index in the front,was the three main characters Ophelia, Verna and Lizzy. The book is also really slow. I like the author bu I think I’ll stick to reading her other series.