Crafts and Life

In an old Victorian in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish country, Daisy Swanson and her aunt Iris serve soups, scones, and soothing teas to tourists and locals—but a murder in their garden has them in hot water . . .
 
Daisy, a widowed mom of two teenagers, is used to feeling protective—so when Iris started dating the wealthy and not-quite-divorced Harvey Fitz, she worried . . . especially after his bitter ex stormed in and caused a scene at the party Daisy’s Tea Garden was catering. Then there was the gossip she overheard about Harvey’s grown children being cut out of his will. Daisy didn’t want her aunt to wind up with a broken heart—but she never expected Iris to wind up a suspect in Harvey’s murder.
 
Now the apple bread and orange pekoe is on the back burner while the cops treat the shop like a crime scene—and Daisy hopes that Jonas Groft, a former detective from Philadelphia, can help her clear her aunt’s name and bag the real killer before things boil over . . .

Daisy and her Aunt Iris have set up a tea shop and things seem to be going well, although personal lives are not so happy, Daisy is widowed and whilst her oldest daughter, Violet, seems to be happy at University her youngest, Jasmine (known to all as Jazzi), is not as happy and it doesn't appear to be just teenage angst. Oh and Iris has started going out with a not yet divorced man (Harvey Fitz), whose children and estranged wife are unhappy with him.  This would all get sorted out except Harvey ends up violently dead in the tea shop garden! Now Iris is the prime contender for the murderer and so she, Daisy and a former detective, now shop owner, need to figure out what is wrong with Jazzi and keep Iris serving tea and scones and NOT Prison dinners!

A great start to a new series for me and whilst it took a while to get going once it did it turned into a regular page turner.