Book Number 7 in the Vicky Delany’s “Tea By The Sea” mystery series
Since the theme of this installment ‘supposedly’ involves a bit of the paranormal, using a play-on-words reference to the old ‘witch’s’ chant of "Double, double toil and trouble; / Fire burn and caldron bubble" from Shakespere’s MacBeth for the title, ‘Bubble, Bubble, Tea & Trouble’ fits in well with the main character’s Cape Cod Tea Room, a standard in the whole series.
Synopsis of Bubble, Bubble, Tea & Trouble
Book seven begins with Lily Roberts, the Cape Cod tearoom owner, discovering a group of guests at her grandmother’s Victorian B&B conducting a seance. The group of five middle-aged women called it a meeting of their ‘book club’, but holding it in the dark while using ritualistic candles, with no ‘books’ in sight, makes Lily question what is going on. Nevertheless, she chases them outside if they must use the candles, because the Inn has a no-smoking policy. Not to mention the fire hazard. The ladies leave, while complaining that they seem to be having nothing but bad luck and chalk it up to the mysterious absence of their leader, Katya.
The next morning, Lily finds what they are really trying to do when they begin grilling her about any past paranormal activity in the old Inn. Their attempts to contact spirits are not working and they are blaming the missing leader they paid to come along and guide them. Lily rather thinks the real reason they are failing is that there is no such thing as ghosts!
Bernie, Lily’s best friend, has found what she believes is another explanation ~ the fact that these ‘so-called’ spirit-seekers have the wrong house! That the haunted reputation belongs to the place next door where Lily’s gardener boyfriend is currently staying.
But before Lily and Bernie can inform these luckless ladies of this development, the missing medium shows up. Trouble is, she is found dead on the rocks at the bottom of the cliff.
Summary
It seems Lily now has two jobs - serving afternoon tea at her tearoom, and solving a murder before someone else gets sent to the great beyond . . .
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*Book Review of Book #7 in the Tea by the Sea cozy mystery series was written by Wednesday Elf
Why am I not surprised the leader was actually dead and not just missing :) I have definitely learned to appreciate a good cozy mystery book! I do appreciate you and our fellow contributors introducing me to cozy mysteries. I was never interested in the violence or gore some general mystery books.
ReplyDeleteCozy mysteries are really fun to read. A light-hearted way to solve a murder with fun characters.
DeleteI too love a good cozy mystery. Thanks for the recommendation
ReplyDeleteI have always loved mysteries and have read a lot of them over the years. But I never read cozy mysteries until you introduced me to them here on Review This Reviews, Mary Beth. Thanks. They are a lot of fun to read and this series was so interesting, with a delightful cast of characters.
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