Second book of the Haunted Tearoom series
In this small town, everyone has secrets….
But one person will kill to keep the truth hidden.
When has turning 50 been so deadly?
Trouble is brewing as April May approaches her 50th birthday and the opening of her tearoom. When word gets around that a local reporter is penning a tell-all, everyone in town is on edge that their secrets may be revealed.
A murder exposes how far one desperate person will go to keep the truth hidden, and April must team up with the new deputy to find the killer. As outsiders, they’re the only two unbiased observers.
As if that’s not enough, a new love interest rattles her tearoom’s resident ghost, and his snide remarks and snooty tantrums could threaten all her hard work.
But no one knows that April has her own secret. She has something the killer wants. Will she be the next victim before she can uncover the truth?
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Sadly, this book rings a DNF for this series. This mystery isn’t one for me. Even if it’s a well-loved series, I prefer to concentrate on others rather than continue this one.
The main problem with this series is that even if the crime is right at the beginning, you spend too much time with how she starts with her tea room, Sereni’Tea. I like to see it occasionally, as it’s part of her life, but I do not like how it’s done in the book; it feels too much. Also, the lengthy talks about the food are a little repetitive, and I don’t care about them. All of that makes me sometimes forget about the crime. The thing is that I don’t think she is the best character to solve the mysteries.
Also, I struggle with the book as a whole. In fact, the main character is supposed to be in her fifties, and when I’m reading, I don’t feel like she is of that age. She looks a lot younger, and it’s pretty unsettling. Another problem was the “romance” in it. Like, I don’t mind romance in mysteries, but it needs to be well done, and here it’s not. Ultimately, I don’t know what the author wants me to understand in this book.
I’m happy that it was a short book, as I struggled a lot to read it.
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