Marty Wingate is the Seattle-based author of the soon-to-be-released murder mystery The Garden Plot (Alibi, 2014), about an American gardener in England—read a free excerpt at www.scribd.com/doc/204912698/The-Garden-Plot-by-Marty-Wingate-Excerpt. She also wrote Perennials for the Pacific Northwest (Sasquatch Books) and Landscaping for Privacy (Timber Press). Hear her on the podcast “A Dry Rain”, available free through iTunes. More at: www.martywingate.com.