The Plants Never Lied

By Michael Castel

A Provence village. A dead woman in her glasshouse.
And a garden that remembers everything.

Marguerite Fonval - beloved president of the local gardening club -
is found dead in her glasshouse in Sainte-Colombe-en-Provence.
The doctor calls it heart failure.

Commander Lucie Sarrazin, newly posted and not yet sure she belongs
here, reads plants the way others read crime scenes.
What Marguerite's garden has been hiding for months is enough
to destroy three lives.

The Plants Never Lied is Book 1 in the Lucie Sarrazin Mystery Series -
a slow-burn literary procedural set in Provence, for readers who like
their mysteries to take their time.

Start here. Continue with The Witness Bees (Book 2).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H391K39H
• ISBN13: 9798199016513
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"