Author who explores horticultural themes in crime fiction brings book tour to Iowa

It’s said writers should write about what they know, and author Marta McDowell, an avid green-thumber who worked for years as a horticulturist, is touring Iowa this week, promoting her latest book. “‘Gardening Can Be Murder’ puts two things together that I absolutely love and that is reading murder mysteries and gardening,” McDowell says, “so […]