Murder with Chocolate Tea

by Karen Rose Smith

Overview

Tea shop owner and bride-to-be Daisy Swanson must solve a murder before she can say “I do” in the latest Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery set in Pennsylvania’s Amish country…

Daisy has a lot to celebrate this summer. She’s supervising a special tea event to help commemorate the 100-year-anniversary of her town’s historic covered bridge. But the main event is her upcoming wedding to her beloved fiancé Jonas. Somehow Willow Creek’s busiest brewer of specialty teas and amateur sleuth still finds time to be a guest on local journalist Trevor Lundquist’s crime podcast to discuss the last murder she solved.

After the podcast, Trevor receives an anonymous tip from a caller who claims a travel chest that’s about to be auctioned holds a clue to a twenty-year-old unsolved murder. Is it a hoax or a genuine lead? When a body turns up in Willow Creek, Trevor suspects a connection between this current homicide and the cold case. Has the murderer killed again to cover their tracks? Now Daisy has another mystery steeping and Trevor may just have his next podcast . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496738486
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	11/28/2023
Series:	A Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery , #10
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	42,667
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Karen Rose Smith is the author of the Daisy’s Tea Garden Mysteries, the Tome & Tea Mysteries, and the Caprice De Luca home-staging mysteries. Married to her college sweetheart, Karen has convinced her husband that felines can make purr-fect housemates. They share their home in the Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania with their three rescued cats. For more about Karen, please visit her Website KarenRoseSmithMysteries.com.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery Series by Karen Rose Smith
 
“Recommend this one to fans of Laura Childs’ tea shop series and Amanda Flowers’ novels also set in Ohio’s Amish country.” —Booklist on Murder with Darjeeling Tea
 
"The deepest joys in this cozy are the relationships between people you actually care about." —Kirkus Reviews on Murder with Darjeeling Tea
 
“A delight.” —Criminal Element on Murder with Darjeeling Tea
 
“A heartwarming cozy.” —Kirkus Reviews on Murder With Oolong Tea
 
“[A] quirky-cute whodunit.” —Woman’s World on Murder with Clotted Cream
 
“With an inviting setting and a good mystery, this is a sweet addition to the series.” —The Parkersburg News & Sentinel on Murder with Cinnamon Scones
 
“A lovely cozy about a tearoom and with a truly complicated and winding mystery.” —A Cup of Tea and a Cozy on Murder with Cinnamon Scones
 
“The plot and subplot, plus bits of romance, will keep readers turning the pages.” —Kings River Life on Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes

“Great characters, great backstory–it will be hard waiting to see what happens next in Daisy’s world.” —Suspense Magazine on Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes

From the Publisher

2023-10-07
A podcast entangles the owner of Daisy’s Tea Garden in her 10th murder case in Pennsylvania's Amish country.

Daisy Swanson has agreed to be interviewed by her friend Trevor Lundquist, who’s trying to make a name for himself as a journalist, about having been involved in solving nine murders. A caller to Trevor's tip line claims that an old trunk about to come up for auction contains clues to a 20-year-old murder. Out of curiosity, Daisy; her fiance, former detective turned woodworker Jonas Groft; and a few friends buy up two lots that contain a total of five trunks. Daisy already has plenty to do: Her wedding is in a few weeks, her younger daughter is heading off to college, and she’s seriously involved in the celebration of a covered bridge restoration. When someone breaks into the shed where a friend is housing the trunks and tries to get into Jonas’ SUV, Daisy and her friends, who’ve discovered nothing so far, decide they have to dig deeper. When a man is found murdered, Trevor thinks the old and new murders are connected and wants Daisy to help him prove it. Egged on, Daisy searches through the trunks, discovering a photograph and newspaper clippings that may have a connection to the cold murder case. Once the long memories of Willow Creek residents turn up a number of suspects, Daisy settles down to find the killer before he finds her.

Plenty of interesting folks in this community elevate the complicated mystery.

Kirkus Reviews