New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert transports readers to the summer of 1934, when a sensational murder shakes up the small Southern town of Darling, Alabama—and pulls in the ladies of the Darling Dahlias garden club, who never let the grass grow under their feet when theres a mystery to solveThe eleven oclock lady has always been one of garden club president Liz Lacys favorite spring wildflowers. The plant is so named because the white blossoms dont open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up.But another Eleven OClock Lady is never going to wake up again. Rona Jean Hancock—a telephone switchboard operator who earned her nickname because her shift ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning—has been found strangled with her own silk stocking in a very unladylike position.
