Marty Eberhardt – “Death in a Desert Garden” Reading

Marty Eberhardt, author, poet, and former TBG Executive Director, will be giving an author reading of her upcoming book Death in a Desert Garden on Saturday 10/16/21.

 Readings:

10:00 am

1:00 pm

Marty Eberhardt is a former Executive Director of Tucson Botanical Gardens. She was at TBG from 1986-2000, and also directed the Water Conservation Garden in El Cajon, CA. She now delights in using the right side of her brain to write fiction and poetry. Death in a Desert Garden is her first novel. Marty has published several poems and prose pieces, in The Wilderness House Literary Review, The Dragon Poet Review, The San Diego Writers INK 2017 Anthology, The Twisted Vine Literary Review, four volumes of The Guilded Pen, and The Silver City Quarterly Review. She divides her time between the small mountain town of Silver City, NM, and the sprawling beach city of San Diego, enjoying the flora and fauna of both. She lives with her husband, Phil Hastings, and a dog, and spends as much time as possible with her children and grandchildren.

You can buy her new novel on Amazon:
https://smile.amazon.com/Marty-Eberhardt/e/B098PQPN26/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk

Book Synopsis:

Bea Rivers’ euphoria over her new job at Shandley Gardens is shattered by the death of the Gardens’ founder, Liz Shandley. When the police determine that she was murdered, Bea is drawn into the investigation, while trying desperately to maintain the life of a committed single parent dating a struggling writer. Every one of the members of the small staff and board are murder suspects. Through the sizzling and beautiful days of a Sonoran Desert summer, someone keeps dropping odd botanical clues. As Bea’s family’s safety is threatened, she discovers just how tangled the relationships at the Gardens really are.