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The Sweet Pea Plot Mysteries

Name: The Sweet Pea Plot Mysteries: premade four-book series
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An allotment keeps excellent records if you know what a plant can and cannot do in a week.

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The Sweet Pea Plot Mysteries, a cozy mystery concept package. The graphic shows 4 novel covers and the free lead magnet, The Pot Without a Number.

The concept

Retired canteen cook Pearl Mallon inherits the task of allocating spare seedlings in a Kent village. Everybody lets her look at their raised beds. Nobody remembers that she also sees what is under the bench. Four fair puzzles turn on growing time, human habits and the private embarrassment hidden behind public displays of neighbourliness.

Only the hooks holding the memorial sweet-pea labels are taken. The blooms themselves are untouched. In Pearl’s photograph a single row winds around its cane the wrong way. The free companion novella is The Pot Without a Number.

The worldPearl is a widowed amateur gardener. Her childhood friend Ida keeps the plot book. Police handle criminal evidence. Seasonal observations need an independent record or witness before they establish a solution.

Series tropesSmall Town • Childhood Friends • Grief to Hope

Intended readershipWarm village cozy mysteries with practical garden clues and an adult sleuth who knows when to pass evidence on.

Tone & contentClean, gentle mysteries. No murder, graphic harm or endangered pets. Each case closes on the page.

The people behind the promise

Free novellaPearl Mallon, newcomer to her husband's former allotment, and Ida Howe.

Book 1Pearl and a shy seed steward accused when the silver hooks vanish.

Book 2Pearl and Malcolm Poyser, a plot holder raising his granddaughter.

Book 3Pearl, Ida and a florist blamed for an open shed.

Book 4Pearl and a young grower returning after a public humiliation.

Series arc

An unnumbered pot earns Pearl a place at the table. Theft, a vanished gardener, a shed burglary and the substitution of a prized dahlia each have their own culprit or explanation. Pearl grows from visitor to elected steward.

The four books

The direction is set. The books are written after you order.

Free novella

The Pot Without a Number

An unnumbered pot wins a prize for the wrong plot. The grower refuses to claim it. Pearl knows a tomato grown in a cold shed could not have ripened that early.

Story outline

Story arc and endingA teenager borrowed her grandfather’s greenhouse and entered under his plot number to cheer him after an illness. A warm-water ring on the pot and his diary explain the growth. An official switched the label afterward to favour a rival. Pearl compares her first photograph with the awards table and secures a rerun with both growers present.

Emotional payoffPearl can honour her husband by giving a young gardener credit.

Story focusFish Out of Water

Length30,000 words planned

Book 1 of four

A Theft Among the Sweet Peas

Only the hooks holding the memorial sweet-pea labels are taken. The blooms themselves are untouched. In Pearl’s photograph a single row winds around its cane the wrong way.

Story outline

Story arc and endingThe new growth shows the canes were moved whole. A former chair shifted them to hide an unauthorised memorial for a woman the committee excluded. The hooks were in his shed to disguise the move as theft for scrap. A mud line and a delivery driver confirm when he moved them. He restores the hooks and requests a proper hearing for the memorial. The steward is cleared.

Emotional payoffPearl learns that a generous motive still owes somebody an apology.

Story focusUnderdog

Length55,000 words planned

Book 2 of four

The Gardener Who Missed the Bus

Malcolm leaves a bus ticket on his bench and fails to collect his granddaughter. The last bus driver swears Malcolm got on. His muddy boots are still laced beneath his stool.

Story outline

Story arc and endingThe driver saw Malcolm’s brother in his recognisable coat. Malcolm followed the brother to a disused potting yard after discovering he had taken letters about the granddaughter’s contact visits. A plant label wedged in the broken door and a shopkeeper’s sighting lead police to Malcolm, accidentally locked inside after their row. The letters are returned. Malcolm arranges contact through the proper adults.

Emotional payoffThe village helps his family without making the child responsible for finding him.

Story focusSingle Parent

Length55,000 words planned

Book 3 of four

A Padlock Full of Petals

Someone has stuffed a padlock with petals. The shed door is shut but the show ledger is gone. Pearl notices the petals are still fresh after a night of hard rain.

Story outline

Story arc and endingThe florist secretly delivered flowers to a committee member. They both left early, explaining their evasive alibis. A judge jammed the lock from outside after removing the ledger to hide earlier altered scores. The dry petals came from the judging tent, and their crushed edges match a fresh bouquet photographed there that morning. A duplicate score slip confirms the alterations. The judge resigns and the ledger returns intact.

Emotional payoffIda keeps a confidence once its timing can be proved another way.

Story focusHidden Relationship

Length55,000 words planned

Book 4 of four

The Dahlia Under the Wrong Name

The dahlia entered under a dead grower’s name is enormous, scarlet and still attached to a stake. Nobody else sees why Pearl is more interested in its string than its petals.

Story outline

Story arc and endingThe exhibitor’s rival has swapped two entries to make her look dishonest. His blue binding is customary on a different row. A neighbour’s watering photograph shows the original plant before the switch; a fresh tear fits the cut tie on its old stake. Pearl has the show manager check both before naming him. The exhibitor gets her plant and her standing back. Pearl accepts the steward’s key.

Emotional payoffHer confidence ends in responsibility rather than a victory lap.

Story focusRevenge

Length55,000 words planned

From the free novella into Book 1

The unnumbered pot gives Pearl a reason to photograph the spring beds before the first theft.

In the concept package

Includes the author pitch, editable Authorythm seeds and individual AI-generated front-cover concepts. The planned fiction totals 250,000 words.

Included free

Buy the 4-book concept pack and receive the companion lead magnet concept free. Each novel is planned at 55,000 words. The lead magnet, The Pot Without a Number, is planned at 30,000 words.

Included in the pack

Author pitch PDF with the series premise, characters, book blurbs and complete story arcs. One editable Authorythm seed document. 5 coordinated front-cover concepts.