Murder with Darjeeling Tea

by Karen Rose Smith

Overview

When the owner of a local stationary shop known for its whimsical style is found dead behind Four Paws Animal Shelter, it’s up to tea shop owner and amateur sleuth Daisy Swanson to find the stone cold killer in the latest installment of Karen Rose Smith’s popular Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery series.

When Daisy Swanson arrives at Rumple’s Statuary shopping for a birthday present for her beau Jonas, Wilhelm Rumple’s cottage looks like something out of a fairy tale, reminding her of the Storybook Tea family event she’s planning. Even the man himself—short and stumpy in overalls with bare feet—seems like a storybook character. But as a businessman, Rumple is rumored to be as cold and hard as the statues he sells.

Maybe that’s why, following a break-in at his cottage, Rumple is found dead in a dog run behind Four Paws Animal Shelter, bashed in the head. Now it’s up to Daisy to get the residents of Willow Creek to spill the tea on a little man who may have had some big secrets, so she can find a stone-cold killer…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496733986
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	05/24/2022
Series:	Daisy's Tea Garden Series , #8
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	122,143
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Karen Rose Smith is the author of the Daisy’s Tea Garden 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.

Editorial Reviews

2022-02-09
A trip to buy a birthday present embroils a Pennsylvania tea shop owner in yet another puzzling mystery.

Daisy Swanson wants nothing more than to support her family financially and emotionally, serve great food, and continue to develop her romantic relationship. So far, so good: Her shop in Willow Creek—part of Pennsylvania's Amish Country—is doing fine, her daughter and son-in-law’s unplanned pregnancy has worked out well, her other daughter will soon be off to college, and her romance with former cop–turned-woodworker Jonas Groft is progressing nicely. When she visits the shop of oddly reclusive dog lover Wilhelm Rumple in search of a concrete dog statue for Jonas’ birthday, she overhears an argument between Rumple and wealthy Stanley King over money. Jonas and Rumple both volunteer at Four Paws Animal Shelter, which is run by a brother-sister team, and when Rumple is murdered in a dog run there, Daisy, who’s no stranger to investigations, feels compelled to see what she can discover. Although she turns everything she learns over to the police, who are struggling to pin down a motive, she still becomes a target for a killer who fears she knows too much.

The deepest joys in this cozy are the relationships between people you actually care about.

Kirkus Reviews