Rosemary & Thyme (2003)

Rosemary and Laura are asked to restore the Wellminster Cathedral garden for a Royal visit. But when the Custos' daughter is murdered the girls realise they could be in serious danger.

Caroline Pargeter, the grand-daughter of the famous botanist Edwin Pargeter, is selling her house and has asked Rosemary and Laura to tidy up the garden. When a mysterious Southern American man is found dead in the Pargeter's back garden, it looks as if there is more to Edwin's seed collection than meets the eye. Rosemary involves her colleague at the Royal Horticultural Society at Kew Gardens to help identify the mysterious seeds before they fall into the wrong hands.

Rosemary's former boyfriend, Neil Spicer, invites her and Laura to his home in the hills behind Malaga in southern Spain to help create an Arabic garden. One of the local residents is found dead and the mysterious landowner, Luis Mendes, is the chief suspect. Rosemary deals with a jealous wife and Laura discovers clues in the history of local aquifers. Is the precious water the real reason behind the murder?

Rosemary and Laura are employed to help re-create an original Victorian planting in an historic Avenue garden. There they meet a variety of characters for whom the central London park plays a regular part in their daily life. The beauty and peace of the Avenue is shattered when Harley Street psychiatrist, Pavel Volkar, is found murdered. Rosemary and Laura adopt Mr Volkar's bereaved three-legged dog Holly, who seems to have more than a canine understanding of events. The mystery surrounding the accident in which Holly lost her leg appears to be key to solving the murder mystery.

Rosemary's maternal side is brought out when she and Laura find an abandoned baby under a gooseberry bush in Penelope Braxton's garden. Penelope is remarrying her ex-husband, Tim, and our heroines are working on a memorial garden as an intended wedding present for Tim from Penelope. Rosemary and Laura are forced to care for the baby as they try to find out who the mother is and why she would abandon him. Events take a dramatic turn when neighbouring artist Sir Carlos Potter is found murdered. How is he connected and will the girls be able to reunite mother and baby? Will Rosemary remain enchanted at the prospect of bringing up a child?

Laura's son, Matthew, and his friends are on their annual tennis holiday at a beautiful tennis camp owned by former champion Ray Parfitt in southern Spain where Laura and Rosemary are creating a trophy garden for his Pro-Am tennis tournament. When one of the players is found dead after a night out everyone assumes it was a drunken accident but the girls suspect foul play. In the neighbouring village of Mijas, Rosemary rediscovers the thrill of riding motor scooters, while Laura finds the local bullring a mysterious and threatening place. The value of property proves to be the driving force for evil in this idyllic, sun-drenched resort.

Rosemary's cousin, Charles, is performing with an amateur dramatic group and she and Laura have been brought along to prepare the garden of the open-air theatre in time for opening night. When one of the actors accidentally shoots himself during rehearsal and the police discover the gun wasn't loaded with blanks, it appears there's a murderer in their midst. Will the play go without a hitch or is someone out to sabotage it?

With growing interest in English vineyards, Laura and Rosemary are pleased to be invited to see Ben Blackton's Crickle Valley Vineyard. Unhappily, weeds are choking his vines, and the gardeners are asked to find a horticultural solution to the problem. Ben is at odds with his brother Stuart, who runs a hotel alongside Ben's vineyard, over the future of the property - a rivalry made worse by the murder of Ben's girlfriend and the death of a visiting wine writer in mysterious circumstances. Luckily, the detective work of Rosemary and Laura not only unmasks the killer but also rescues the future of the Crickle Valley Vineyard.

English vineyards are growing in reputation in the global wine market, so Laura and Rosemary are excited to be invited to the Crickle Valley vineyard. There they find that weeds are choking this year's crop and the gardeners have trouble finding a horticultural solution to the massive problem. Events turn sinister when a visiting wine columnist dies in mysterious circumstances. Brothers Ben and Stuart, who run the vineyard and hotel respectively, are at odds over the future of the property - a rivalry made worse by the murder of Ben's girlfriend. Cunning detective work by Rosemary and Laura not only unmasks the killer, but ensures this year's vintage of Crickle Valley wines finally makes it into the bottles.