title: Green Living Can Be Deadly (Blossom Valley Mystery)
author:  Staci McLaughlin 
description: <b>Staci McLaughlin</b> was a technical writer in Silicon Valley for eight years before becoming a freelance writer. She is currently a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. She is also a member of the LadyKillers, a group of thirteen writers who alternate posting daily blogs at www.theladykillers.typepad.com. Staci also blogs on her own website stacimclaughlin.com, where she offers more healthy-living tips to compliment those in her Blossom Valley mysteries.
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  > > > > Peace, my stranger is a tree Growing naturally through all its
  > Discomforts, trials and emergencies Of growth.
  
  > > > It is green and resolved It breathes with anguish Yet it releases peace,
  > peace of mind Growth, movement.
  
  > > > It walks this greening sweetness Throughout all the earth, Where sky and
  > sun tender its habits As I would yours.
  
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  > > > Lynette Roberts, ‘Green Madrigal (I)’
  
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    1. [Title Page](index_split_000.html#filepos404)
    2. [Epigraph](index_split_001.html#filepos631)
    3.   4. [1](index_split_003.html#filepos8057)
    5. [LANNY’S MUM](index_split_003.html#filepos15700)
    6. [LANNY’S DAD](index_split_003.html#filepos16344)
    7. [PETE](index_split_003.html#filepos17786)
    8. [LANNY’S MUM](index_split_003.html#filepos24339)
    9. [LANNY’S DAD](index_split_003.html#filepos25141)
    10. [LANNY’S MUM](index_split_003.html#filepos27190)
    11. [DEAD PAPA TOOTHWORT](index_split_003