"Today I was acquitted of murdering my husband..." This is how Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside begins. From then on, the reader is in search of whom really done it.I thought the plot was clever. The reader has to follow two-time lines. The accused is Diana. The narrator's great aunt. When Diana dies of old age, her niece Helena is clearing out her aunt's things and comes across her diaries. This is where she learns that Diana's husband was murdered.
When Helena tells her friends about Diana and the murder, everyone wants to know who dun it. And the search involves everyone. The novel travels effortlessly from Diana's time to Helena's. But it seems that Diana wasn't the only one who kept a diary. Eventually, the pieces are put together and the reader finds out who and why.
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