Bubble, Bubble, Tea and Trouble

When Cape Cod tearoom owner Lily Roberts finds a group conducting a séance in her grandmother’s Victorian B&B, she has no idea the trouble that’s about to be conjured up . . .

When Lily stumbles across five middle-aged women gathered in a dark corner of the tearoom for a “book club,” she firmly reminds them that the inn’s no-smoking policy also applies to their oddly ritualistic candles. As they head outside, Lily overhears them chalking their bad luck up to the absence of their leader, Katya. Whatever they’re doing, it certainly isn’t reading—and their cover is starting to sound like weak tea . . .

While they enjoy Lily’s homemade banana bread the next morning, they make their intentions clear—grilling Lily about any past paranormal activity in the cliffside mansion. Their attempts to contact spirits have been falling flat, it seems, and the mysterious Katya is catching the heat. Levelheaded Lily thinks the real reason is that there’s no such thing as ghosts.

But Lily’s pal Bernie has found another explanation: the half-baked spirit-seekers have the wrong house. The haunted reputation belongs to the place next door—where Lily’s gardener boyfriend is currently staying. But before they can inform the luckless ladies, the missing medium shows up—dead on the rocks at the bottom of the cliff. Now, Lily has two jobs: serving afternoon tea, and solving a murder before someone else gets sent to the great beyond . . .

AuthorVicki Delany

PublisherKensington Publishing

My Heart Belongs to Dante

Imogene is in Italy, armed with the celebrated Dorothy L. Sayers translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy to guide her through the golden streets of Tuscany’s favourite city, Florence. As always, Imogene finds time, while researching her next book, to wander the romantic streets of the Medici’s, tasting various flavours of gelato and drinking limoncello.

And though she might be a stranger whose Italian is very much read-only, familiar faces are not far away. Her friend Toni pops over from France for a conference, and she even coaxes Daniel, her “gentleman caller” from back home in Edmonton, over for a few days. But Florence’s rich culture might be overshadowed by its dark past. Perhaps Imogene should have chosen to study a place less connected to murder. Especially now that she’s connected to a series of macabre discoveries.

Under the historic overlay, and beyond the crush of the tourist crowds, someone is seeking to destroy the glory that is Firenze, one body at a time. Can Imogene decipher a reason from all the research she’s been doing? Can she avoid becoming a victim herself?

AuthorJanice MacDonald

PublisherRavenstone Press (Turnstone Press)

The Dog Park Murders

A killer has been unleashed in their small town…

Juliette Macintyre has never met a dog she didn’t love. For one thing, dogs don’t judge, unlike the human residents of Labrador Falls. Most locals look at her with suspicion because her father was once a dirty cop, even though Juliette is upbeat, helpful, and the best pet groomer around. She just needs to prove it…starting with new resident Joel Cunningham, an enigma wrapped in a checked shirt and a scowl.

Joel runs the Brewed Awakening café, where the coffee is as smooth as Joel is surly. He doesn’t serve pumpkin spice, he doesn’t chitchat, and he claims he doesn’t like dogs. Yet when Juliette stumbles upon a dead body in the dog park, strangled with one of her custom leashes, Joel becomes an unexpected ally.

He has no intention of opening up, to either his cute neighbor or the foster pup she foists on him. But he can’t let a biased detective frame Juliette for murder. Whoever killed the widely loathed Maurice Allsop may be desperate enough to strike again. If they can just ignore their chemistry and focus on the clues, Juliette and Joel might be able to solve the case—before somebody else bites the dust…

AuthorAngela Barker

PublisherHarlequin

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