The Printed Page

• My rating: Good
• New-to-me author: No
• Would I read more from this author: Yes; book #3, Dead Head, is sitting on the review shelf

Title: The Big Dirt Nap (Dirty Business, book #2)

Author/website: Rosemary Harris

Publisher: Minotaur

Publication date & page count: February ’09 & 246 pages

Something stinks to Paula Holliday, and it isn’t just the corpse flower, titan arum, named for its off-putting fragrance. When Paula’s friend Lucy asks her to tag along on an all-expense-paid junket to the Titans Hotel, it seems like a good idea. Paula even manages to squeeze a few bucks and a byline out of the local paper for writing an article on the titan arum, a rare flower that’s just about to bloom and on display at the hotel.

But when her friend is unavoidably detained, a would-be suitor is found with a gaping hole in his head, and the corpse flower refuses to bloom, the entire venture starts to seem like less of a good idea.