Roses

When Poppy Pruette Comes Home For The Summer After Her First Year At College, She Expects It To Be Just Like Every Summer Before It: Filled With Cookouts, Nosy Neighbors, Town Hall Meetings And Long, Hot Days.she Never Expects A Murder. Not In Minerrsquo;s Way, Virginia.but The Sanctity Of Her Small Town Is Shattered When Poppyrsquo;s Widely Beloved Grandmother, Rose, Is Brutally Killed The Night Of A Neighborhood Barbecue. No One Knows What To Make Of It Or Who Might Be Responsible, Least Of All Poppymdash;until Detective Owen Peirce Arrives From Out Of Town With Strange Questions And A Family History Far More Sinister Than Poppy Ever Imagined.owen Believes Poppy Was The Intended Target, Not Rose.