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Tea Is for Trouble

Haunted Tearoom Cozy Mysteries, Book 1

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A new life complete with tea, scones, and…murder?

And let’s not forget the ghost....

When your fiancé breaks up with you on your 49th birthday, what do you do? If you’re April May, you buy a huge Victorian home on a whim and open a tearoom featuring lace tablecloths, exotic teas, and dainty sandwiches.

No one told her the house came with a cat in the attic who might just be guarding a treasure. How else to explain people breaking in?

From the moment she moves in, nothing goes right, but her problems seem minor when a dead body turns up in her home. Accused of murder, April teams up with a cantankerous bar owner and a feisty, young antiques expert to solve the crime.

And what about the handsome, arrogant chef in her kitchen who no one else can see? She plans to get medical help for what must be a hallucination, but in the meantime, he’s putting a tasty French twist on her menu.

If you’ve ever wished someone would remake The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as a culinary murder mystery, this book is for you!

Get the first Haunted Tearoom Cozy Mystery now—complete with delicious recipes!

©2021 Karen Sue Walker (P)2022 Karen Sue Walker Cosy Crime Detective Murder Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Haunted Fiction Scary Ghost
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I enjoyed this book. It's a good start to a new series, although I wish the main character hasn't denied she was getting help cooking from a ghost for so long. Either have the ghost in the story or its not. It just seemed strange that she was willing to except cooking help from him but didn't acknowledge him otherwise. I did like the characters, even the ghost but did think they spent a lot of time think or talking about either food or tea, if they hadn't they might have solved the murder a lot quicker. I had guessed who the killer was but that might have been because he was obnoxious and he was the only one I didn't really take to.
When April's car breaks down she is forced to stop and wanting a fresh start impulsively buys a house. She hopes to restore it to a tea room but the town's residents aren't happy with the idea and she doesn't get the warm welcome she hoped for. To smooth things over when she finds an old cook book written by the chief who use to live in the very house she just brought, she cooks his treats and holds an open house. Only a few town's residents show up and to make it worse the next day she discovers one of them frozen in her freezer. With the police wanting to either write it off as an accident despite the door being locked or arrest her, April has no choice but to find the killer herself. The man wasn't short of people who hated him but when items found in his pockets turn out to have come from her house it look like more than just murder is going on.
The narrator used different voices to bring the characters to life.

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What a wonderful audiobook, I loved every word of it. It is funny, the setting in the small town is lovely, the storyline is well thought out and I adored the characters. As a bonus there is a lot of interesting information about tea, and there are some yummy baking tips.

Wonderful!

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