Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley are guests at a bird hunt styled in the precise manner of an English shooting party. Which means elevenses (sloe gin fizzes), gun loaders, the drawing of pegs, fine looking bird dogs, and shooting costumes of tweed, herringbone, and suede.
But as gunshots explode like a riff of Black Cat firecrackers, another shot sounds too close for comfort to Theodosia and Drayton. Intrigued but worried, Theodosia wanders into the neighbor's lavender field where she discovers their host, Reginald Doyle, bleeding to death.
His wife, Meredith, is beside herself with grief and begs Theodosia and Drayton to stay the night. But Theodosia awakens at 2:00A.M. to find smoke in her room and the house on fire. As the fire department screams in and the investigating sheriff returns, Meredith again pleads with Theodosia for help.
As Theodosia investigates, fingers are pointed, secrets are uncovered, Reginald's daughter-in-law goes missing presumed drowned, and Meredith is determined to find answers via a séance. All the while Theodosia worries if she's made a mistake in inviting a prime suspect to her upscale Lavender Lady Tea.
Phew this was a humdinger of a story with a plethora of potential suspects for Theo and Drayton to deal with!
This opens with a shooting party. but no one expects the host to be shot instead of his game birds! and then if that wasn't bad enough someone tries to burn down his plantation house and then his stepdaughter in law is missing, presumed drowned! Reginald Doyle's widow Meredith seems to be beside herself and alternating between being sensible and being all over the place, when she asks Theo to help figure out who would kill her husband Theo realises that pretty much everyone involved with the Doyle's is keeping a secret. Even though the police are telling her to stay out of it her inate curiosity keeps her digging into things, but is she digging her own grave?
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