RMR Project: Freeman's "Bleeding Heart"

Published by Berkley Prime Crime. Copyright 2000.

In Mary Freeman's Bleeding Heart, Rachel receives a prime landscaping project to prepare a exciting property to become a nature Conservancy. When her employer Eloise is suddenly found dead, Rachel finds herself caught up in the search for the murderer.

Tense

Past.

POV

Third person limited omniscient. Rachel O'Connor, who runs a landscaping business.

Deaths

page 54. Eloise, an elderly lady, a botanist, is missing in stormy weather.
Page 57. Eloise found dead in the flooded creek.


Suspects

The young woman who helped in the house, the victims as sons, a politician.

Other

this mystery has an interesting twist.