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A foggy coastal village. A poisoned scone. One amateur sleuth with everything to lose.
Iris Penhaligon inherited a tea shop on the California coast, a Russian Blue cat with opinions, and a town that still thinks the Mariposa belonged to her great-aunt. She expected recipes, gossip, and a difficult first week. She did not expect a body in the storeroom.
When feared food critic Vivienne Marsh dies after one bite of a rosemary-lemon scone at the Mariposa Tea Shop's soft launch, every clue points back to Iris: the foxglove, the recipe, the locked-room timing, and the fact that the new owner had everything to lose.
To save her shop, her freedom, and the only home she has left, Iris turns pastry-chef instinct into amateur sleuthing. With help from a sharp-eyed bookseller, a stubborn sheriff, a complicated old flame, and Earl Grey the cat, she must read her late great-aunt's diaries and uncover the secret one of Monarch Cove's oldest families would kill to keep buried.
Murder at the Mariposa Tea Shop is a cozy culinary mystery set in a foggy coastal California village — perfect for readers who love small-town secrets, tea shop mysteries, cat companions, women sleuths, and first-in-series mysteries with warmth, wit, recipes, and a body behind the scones.
Includes Iris's recipe for Marigold's Rosemary-Lemon Scones (without the foxglove).
