{"id":231,"date":"2014-05-30T11:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T18:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2023-10-04T11:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T17:01:02","slug":"a-sprig-of-blossomed-thorn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/books\/a-sprig-of-blossomed-thorn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sprig of Blossomed Thorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1575\" src=\"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2017-Greenwood-ASprigofBlossomedThorn-300x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2017-Greenwood-ASprigofBlossomedThorn-300x450-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2017-Greenwood-ASprigofBlossomedThorn-300x450-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2017-Greenwood-ASprigofBlossomedThorn-300x450-1-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries, Book 2<\/h4>\n<p>260 pages<\/p>\n<h4><em>Notorious for failed relationships.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Rosings knows that&#8217;s true of cops. Detective Tony Aragon has even said it about himself, or something like it. Despite her misgivings, she is drawn to him, but can he reach past a cop&#8217;s cynicism to trust her?<\/p>\n<p>As summer surrounds her Wisteria Tearoom in the beauty of a lush rose garden, death overshadows the tearoom a second time. Maria Garcia\u2015a venerable member of the Santa Fe Rose Guild\u2015breathes her last in the tearoom&#8217;s front parlor, throwing Ellen into a morass of doubt and conjecture. Was it murder, or merely misfortune? Or\u2015as Tony suggests\u2015was it a crime of racial hatred? The more Ellen learns about the inner politics of the Rose Guild, the more she suspects foul play.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-469 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/separator.png\" alt=\"separator\" width=\"150\" height=\"25\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Purchase print books <a href=\"https:\/\/evennight.com\/wp\/product-category\/books-by-patrice-greenwood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">directly from the publisher<\/a> &#8211; autographs available!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">See <a href=\"http:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/38Dr9B\">your favorite online bookstore<\/a> for ebook and audiobook editions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-469 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/separator.png\" alt=\"separator\" width=\"150\" height=\"25\" \/><br \/>\nReviews:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinnamonsugarandalittlebitofmurder.com\/2015\/05\/rose-petal-jam-scones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cinnamon and Sugar and a Little Bit of Murder, 2015-05-06<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries, Book 2 260 pages Notorious for failed relationships. &nbsp; Ellen Rosings knows that&#8217;s true of cops. Detective Tony Aragon has even said it about himself, or something like it. Despite her misgivings, she is drawn to him, but can he reach past a cop&#8217;s cynicism to trust\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/books\/a-sprig-of-blossomed-thorn\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1043,"parent":220,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/1857"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patricegreenwood.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}