Eustacia Rose is a woman who is comfortable living a lonely life with only her exotic and deadly plants to keep her company. Eustacia is a unique character who loves to keep tabs on her neighbors with a telescope. This seems to be her only real connection to others since she was unfairly fired from her last job. Eustacia likes living her life the same day to day with little to no changes, until one day she is enraptured by her beautiful neighbor, Simone.
As the two women seem to form a friendship in real life, Simone takes a sudden interest in Eustacia’s rare collection. But when one of the strange men in Simone’s life ends up dead and with a deadly poison in his system only from one of the plants in Eustacia’s garden all fingers seem to point to murder. But who did it and what happened to Simone? Can Eustacia overcome what has happened to her in the past so she may have a future?
Overall rating 3/5
Reminiscent of Rear Window, this novel delves into the struggle of being isolated for long periods of time with no real contact with others. How as humans we crave and need human contact even if we think we do not. I liked the confusion behind the motivation for the murders and who was truly to blame, which added to the convoluted plot. I do wish that the book had multiple POVs, possibly from Simone’s perspective.


*Thank you to Jill Johnson, Poisoned Pen Press, and Netgalley for the ARC copy. I am freely leaving my honest review.