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A Botanist's Guide to Rituals and Revenge

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by Kate Khavari
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Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh faces her hardest challenge yet when she returns to her childhood home in the fourth book in the charming Saffron Everleigh mystery series.
“A cleverly plotted puzzle” (Ashley Weaver) in the vein of Opium and Absinthe, this is perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Sujata Massey.
Saffron Everleigh returns to Ellington Manor after her grandfather suffers a heart attack. Back in her childhood home for the first time in years, Saffron faces tense family relationships made worse by the presence of the enigmatic Bill Wyatt, hired on as a doctor to the ailing Lord Easting. But the man is no doctor—in reality, he is a mysterious figure involved in the trafficking of dangerous government secrets, and his presence at Ellington can only mean trouble.
When their neighbors, the Hales, invite a spiritual medium into the village who starts angling for Saffron’s mother’s attention, Saffron realizes that there is more afoot in her hometown than she originally thought. Not to mention inviting Alexander to Ellington has put their budding relationship under her family’s microscope.
As tensions rise at Ellington, Bill demands that Saffron hand over old research documents belonging to her late father. With her relatives under his power as their ‘doctor,’ Saffron fears she may be forced to surrender the files along with her hopes of ever understanding her father’s obscure legacy. Nothing and no one is as they seem at Ellington. It’s through the perfumed haze of the séance’s smoke that Saffron must search for the truth before it’s too late.

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    A Saffron Everleigh Mystery

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    • Library Journal

      April 11, 2025

      In the fourth book in Khavari's 1920s-set series (after A Botanist's Guide to Society and Secrets), Saffron Everleigh returns to Ellington, the family estate, when her grandfather has a heart attack. Bill Wyatt, a dangerous man from her past, is there, posing as her grandfather's doctor. Claiming she owes him for burning notes to a deadly poison and ruining a lucrative sale, Bill orders Saffron to locate information on her late father's project which may interest a new buyer. He gives her less than a week, or her family will pay the price. With help from her beau Alexander and best friend, Elizabeth, Saffron chases down clues only to repeatedly run into dead ends. The situation grows more complicated when a medium arrives and begins holding seances to communicate with loved ones lost in the Great War, including Saffron's childhood sweetheart. Is Madame Martin in league with Bill? When she discovers secrets about her family during her search for information to appease Bill, Saffron wonders if this is a fight she can win. VERDICT This series continues to delight and is perfect for readers of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series or Sherry Thomas's Lady Sherlock mysteries.--Julie Ciccarelli

      Copyright 2025 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Kirkus

      May 1, 2025
      In 1924 England, Saffron Everleigh, an adventurous student botanist who's solved several mysteries, finds her latest case dangerous for those she loves. Saffron--together with her boyfriend, Alexander Ashton, and her best friend, Elizabeth Hale--is visiting her grandparents, Lord and Lady Easting, after a long time apart. None of them are thrilled about the idea. On arrival, they're greeted by Saffron's cousin John, who'll inherit Ellington Manor but prefers living in Paris with his French wife and their son, Benjamin. Saffron's grandparents wanted her to marry well, not go to university to follow in her father's scientific footsteps, and they're still at odds with her. Her biggest surprise of the evening is meeting her grandfather's cardiologist, Dr. Bill Wyatt, who may not even be a real doctor. Wyatt, a crook who also deals in government secrets, presses Saffron to find her late father's papers, which contain a valuable discovery in the pharmaceutical field. Elizabeth's parents, who live nearby, have invited everyone to a dinner filled with tension since she hasn't seen them since refusing to marry the man they chose. Meantime, medium Madame Martin and her assistant, Bernard Fischer, claim to have summoned Elizabeth's brother, Wesley, whom Saffron had loved before he was killed in the war. As Wyatt threatens her family, Saffron desperately searches for her father's work, but she gets no help from her mother, who hasn't left the house since his death. When Saffron does uncover secrets, Benjamin is kidnapped by Wyatt, which is only the first problem before Saffron can untangle them all from the dangers Wyatt presents. A brave and clever heroine toils in a time when women earned little respect.

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