Murder Steeped in Thyme — The Thornwick Tea Shop Mysteries, Book 1

In a village this pretty, everyone has something to hide.

When Bea Hawthorne inherits her late aunt's tearoom in the quiet Kent village of Thornwick, she means to trade a life of botany and books for scones, sweet tea, and a little peace. But peace is the one thing Thornwick will not pour. Beneath the flower boxes and the garden-society gossip, a death that everyone is content to call natural sits wrong with Bea — and her aunt has left behind a battered ledger no one was ever meant to read.

A botanist notices what others miss: the wrong herb, the too-quiet grief, the secret payments set down year after patient year against a list of names. Someone in this pretty village has been paying for silence — and someone is willing to kill to keep it.

To catch a murderer hiding behind good manners and a fresh pot of tea, Bea will have to prove that the kindest-looking places keep the darkest accounts.

A cozy 1920s English village mystery — where the tea is warm and the secrets run deep.

Book 1 of The Thornwick Tea Shop Mysteries.