Review
The Third Succulent Sleuth Mystery
An eco enthusiast Molly Green and her husband, Scott, are always looking for ways to become involved. Recently volunteering with a local stream restoration group,the couple are learning to take water samples off the Buckeye Trail. The day is going wonderfully, being with nature and actually helping the environment when they see a man in a business suit on the ground just off the trail. The murdered man turns out to be Upton North, a developer who's been buying up property around town and making plenty of people angry. But who was angry enough to kill him? It looks like another job for the Succulent Sleuths.
I love how environmental care is at the forefront of THE CORPSE BY THE CREEK, indeed the whole series. Subtly encouraging people to volunteer and do little things to be green while providing an entertaining mystery is wonderful. While I'm unable to hike and one of my cats make having houseplants an impossibility, I'm once again encouraged to get my garden in shape. And play board games.
I enjoyed the mystery, I always find grim satisfaction when developers bite the dust. They do make good victims as there are always lots of suspects with good motives. It was fun seeing the Succulent Sleuths investigate, although the actual confrontation with the killer was unplanned and terrifying! I was sympathetic to the killer until they threatened the unthinkable. But, all worked out in the end.
A quick read, THE CORPSE BY THE CREEK promotes gardening, hiking, and green living while entertaining readers with a delightful mystery.
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The Corpse by the Creek: A Succulent Sleuth Cozy Mystery by Iris March
About The Corpse by the Creek
Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series (plus 2 short stories)
Setting - Ohio
Publisher: Wandering Gingko Press
Publication Date: June 2, 2026
Number of Pages ~200 pages
Volunteer water sampling. Development deals. A dead businessman in the woods.
While volunteering with a local stream restoration group, Molly and her husband, Scott, expect to end the day with nothing more to show for it than muddy hiking shoes and water samples. Instead, they stumble upon a dead body left in the woods behind the Buckeye Trail. The victim turns out to be Upton North—an unpopular developer with business ties to half the town and enemies to match.
As Molly starts asking questions, she uncovers a web of grudges involving tenants, activists, and business owners. She’ll have to follow clues from forest trails to forgotten basements—and confront just how far greed and intimidation pushed the wrong person too far.
With a busy garden center to manage, and a beloved black and white cat occasionally underfoot, Molly digs into another Succulent Sleuth case where the roots of the crime run deep.
About Iris March
Iris March has a reputation for killing house plants, and now she’s killing people off in books? Coincidence? Perhaps not. Iris has spent two decades working in the sustainability field and is usually either reading a book or on a trail. She lives in Ohio with her husband, son, and three cats.
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