num_pages: 288
description: Landscaping is Nina Quinn's business, but trouble seems to be her middle name. Saddled with a recently expelled, faithless local–cop husband, a teenaged terror of a stepson, and the yappiest, most unhousebreakable Chihuahua in captivity, Nina needs a respite –– and the backyard makeover she's undertaking for her sister Maria and Nate, Maria's fiance, may do the trick.But, of course, Nate vanishes mysteriously, and Nina's gardening magic inadvertently turns up a corpse. And with a thief on the prowl who's preying on the neighborhood elderly, a suspicious Pandora's Box of a package arriving on her doorstep, and yet another body inconveniently turning up, Nina's going to have to dig into her community's dirtiest little secrets to regain her peace and sanity –– if she can manage to stay alive long enough to enjoy it.
language: English
title: Trouble in Spades
titlecomplete: Trouble in Spades (A Nina Quinn Mystery, #2)
genres: Crime, Murder Mystery, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Contemporary, Mystery, Romance
ratings_count: 906
places: Freedom, Ohio
series: Nina Quinn 
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Avon