Brenda H. (booksinvt) -
Helpful Score: 1
Murder with Orange Pekoe Tea is the seventh installment in the A Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery series featuring tea shop co-owner Daisy Swanson and set in Amish County town of Willow Creek in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Daisy is serving up tea at a fundraiser for the new homeless shelter and people are having fun, enjoying tea and delicious treats when a crowd of protestors descends on the gathering. The police quickly break up the demonstration and discover the leader appears to be Eli Lapp, an Amish man who left his community at an early age at the encouragement of the local lawyer, Hiram.
Hiram is also defending the Hope Clinic, a fertility clinic that has experienced a mechanical failure and lost numerous eggs and embryos belonging to local couples hoping to have a baby. When Hiram turns up dead, the victim of a lethal insulin injection that appears to have been given after he was felled by a stun gun, nobody in the community is really surprised. Now it's just a matter of figuring out who in the town wanted the man dead and despite objections from her boyfriend Jonas, Daisy begins to investigate and quickly finds herself the next target.
A fast paced plot with the return of many series regulars. It's refreshing to see Daisy's relationships with her daughters, parents and Jonas continue to evolve. I was happy that a new pet arrives on the scene, and from a rescue! The author does a great job of combining the Amish and English communities and establishing meaningful relationships between two very different cultures.
Hiram is also defending the Hope Clinic, a fertility clinic that has experienced a mechanical failure and lost numerous eggs and embryos belonging to local couples hoping to have a baby. When Hiram turns up dead, the victim of a lethal insulin injection that appears to have been given after he was felled by a stun gun, nobody in the community is really surprised. Now it's just a matter of figuring out who in the town wanted the man dead and despite objections from her boyfriend Jonas, Daisy begins to investigate and quickly finds herself the next target.
A fast paced plot with the return of many series regulars. It's refreshing to see Daisy's relationships with her daughters, parents and Jonas continue to evolve. I was happy that a new pet arrives on the scene, and from a rescue! The author does a great job of combining the Amish and English communities and establishing meaningful relationships between two very different cultures.
