Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Tom D. from Missoula, MT won One-Shot Harry. Glen D. from Yuba City, CA won Small Felonies 2. The books are going out in the mail today.

Despite the Supreme Court, at the moment we still have plants and bees in the world. We better read about them while we can. I’m giving away a copy of Kate Khavari’s debut, A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons. Debut author Kate Khavari deftly entwines a pulse-pounding mystery with the struggles of a woman in a male-dominated field in 1923 London. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University College London, but with her colleagues’ beliefs about women’s academic inabilities and not so subtle hints that her deceased father’s reputation paved her way into the botany department, she feels stymied at every turn. When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversations about the university’s large expedition to the Amazon. What she doesn’t expect is for Mrs. Henry, one of the professors’ wives, to drop to the floor, poisoned by an unknown toxin. Dr. Maxwell, Saffron’s mentor, is the main suspect and evidence quickly mounts, and Saffron is determined to prove Dr. Maxwell innocent.

Or, you could read the first Toni Carey mystery by Kate Thornton, Buzz Kill. With a bossy mother, a deteriorating Los Angeles apartment, and a love life going nowhere, magazine writer Toni Carey’s childhood memories of caring for her uncle’s beehives lead her to the bucolic citrus town of Loma Vista. But a bludgeoning, a murder, and a hot Sheriff’s detective have more than the bees buzzing.

Which mystery would you like to win? You can enter to win both, but I need separate entries. Email me at Lesa.Holstine@gmail.com. Your subject heading should read either “Win A Botanist’s Guide” or “Win Buzz Kill.” Please include your name and mailing address. The giveaway will end Thursday, July 7 at 5 PM CT. Entries from the U.S. only, please.