by Laura Childs
Part of Tea Shop Mystery, book 29
First published 2025
Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley arrive to cater an elegant wedding between Bettina and Jamie. They're arranging their setup when a thunderous crash erupts from the greenhouse. Racing to investigate, they find horror beneath the collapsed roof structure. The bride lies dead, crushed by the fallen debris, while the groom clings to life with serious injuries. The authorities dismiss it as a tragic accident, but Theodosia's instincts tell her otherwise. She believes someone engineered this catastrophe to kill the bride. Now she must navigate wedding guests, family secrets, and dangerous suspects to expose the truth. Her investigation threatens to uncover motives that someone will kill to protect. Theodosia faces a murderer who has already struck once and won't hesitate to silence anyone who gets too close to the truth.
Genres: mystery, contemporary-romance, cozy-mystery, amateur-sleuth
Vibes: cozy, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, found-family
Setting: Greenhouse
320 pages · Hardcover · Berkley