Murder in a Teacup

I dove into the series here instead of starting with the first! It's not difficult to figure out what's going on in the tea room, and the setting of the historic inn on the Massachusetts seaside is well described. It definitely meant I was ready to hop over and visit for a week! Tea rooms and old inns are a weakness of mine.

I didn't care for the overblown drama of the family who's going to lose a member to the murder. It worked to make plenty of suspects, but it wasn't pleasant to read their shrill feuds on the page. I had to skim over some of it until finally getting to the murder at 35% in. After that the crime-solving got more interesting. Yes, some was a little bit of a stretch for believability, but I still enjoyed the puzzle of solving the crime. I'll definitely be reading others from this series.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for a free reading copy. A favorable review was not required.