The Tea Cozy Mysteries series commences with the 5-part story of Penelope Price, founder of the Tea & Sympathy Investigative Agency.
Book OneOne Lump or Two
released 2016
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Penelope Price is new to picturesque Pacific Grove, California. Now that the Great War is over, she looks forward to setting herself up as a tearoom owner and living quietly; but when her shop's opening day celebration preparations are cut short by the discovery of a backroom murder, she finds her hard-won idyllic life thrown into disarray.
Join Penelope along with her quirky advocates and ruthless antagonists in the search for a priceless object as well as the truth.
Book TwoReading Between the Leaves
released 2017
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Late-bloomer Penelope Price is finally coming into her own. But as she takes control of her new AntiquiTeas business, she loses control of her heart and good sense. Add to the mix a failed burglary, a secret safe, and a dead body, and Penelope finds herself steeped in mystery.
Join Penelope and the budding Tea & Sympathy Investigative Agency as they attempt to look beneath the surface and read between the leaves.
Book ThreeObjets d'Artifice
released 2018
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Penelope Price has finally settled into a pleasant rhythm as proprietress of Antiquiteas in 1920s Pacific Grove, CA. Not only is business good, but she's found love with a wonderful man—that is until the past rears its accusatory head, threatening to derail all they've worked toward. And then of course there is the matter of that dead body. The third book in the Tea Cozy Mysteries series follows the evolving lives of the Tea & Sympathy Investigative Agency ladies, for better or worse, richer or poorer, in health and death.
Kindle & Paperback
Penelope Price has finally settled into a pleasant rhythm as proprietress of Antiquiteas in 1920s Pacific Grove, CA. Not only is business good, but she's found love with a wonderful man—that is until the past rears its accusatory head, threatening to derail all they've worked toward. And then of course there is the matter of that dead body. The third book in the Tea Cozy Mysteries series follows the evolving lives of the Tea & Sympathy Investigative Agency ladies, for better or worse, richer or poorer, in health and death.
Book FourEsprit de Corpse
released March 2019
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On the trail to solve the riddle of her fiance's past, tearoom owner Penelope Price and her best friend Zara head to the 1924 Olympics in Paris only to find murder is the same in every language. Join them for a heady trip of luxury and mystery ... and a little foie gras.
Note: The last two installments are categorized as historic fiction owing to a whole lotta research.
No Scone Left Unturned
released November 2019
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It’s the beginning of the end for late bloomer Penelope Price when her wedding reception venue burns to the ground before her eyes. Things only get more incendiary from there on out. Her childhood friend Zara is accused of murder—more than once—and the pieces on the board move too quickly for Penelope to keep up. In a story rife with blackmail, romance, and the odd corpse, the Tea & Sympathy Investigative Agency will need to go undercover and get creative if they are to solve the myriad intertwined mysteries that threaten their world.
Kindle & Paperback
It’s the beginning of the end for late bloomer Penelope Price when her wedding reception venue burns to the ground before her eyes. Things only get more incendiary from there on out. Her childhood friend Zara is accused of murder—more than once—and the pieces on the board move too quickly for Penelope to keep up. In a story rife with blackmail, romance, and the odd corpse, the Tea & Sympathy Investigative Agency will need to go undercover and get creative if they are to solve the myriad intertwined mysteries that threaten their world.
