Wrongfully Infused

 Living in the make believe world with Gemma and her best friend, Cassie, running a tea shop in in her tiny Oxfordshire village in England you can forget all the crazy stuff happening here in the real world.  

Gemma returns to her tea shop, Little Stables to find the clientele has been lured away by a new Tea Bar on the other side of town.  Gemma and her best friend are going to eat at the new location to see what the fuss is all about and of course find their best customers, the 4 elderly ladies, the Old Biddies, there.  Gemma has dinner with her parents and explains the problem to them and her mother gives her some good advice to improve her own tea shop to attract the people back to her cafe. 

Gemma is busy baking the best scones in the Cotswolds and trying to keep her relationship moving forward with her rediscovered first love, Devlin, who is up for a promotion to Detective Inspector.   Her mother is expanding her interests and helping people coming to live in England from other countries learn the customs and language.  She is also learning their customs and enjoying some of the new ways of eating and living.

Then her mother introduces her to her newest friend, who is the mother of the woman with the offending Tea Bar.  There has to be a crime committed and of course Gemma is one of the accused.  Of course if she is a suspect in the death she must defend herself.  Thus begins the trail of characters Gemma interviews to find out who could have really murdered the Tea Bar owner, to clear her own name.  Also because Gemma realizes even when her boyfriend, Devlin asks her to stay out the case because it could affect his upcoming promotion, Gemma cannot stop hunting for the killer.

Another fun entertaining light mystery.  So cozy that I spent the day on the couch through a snow storm reading this novel.  Also it takes you away form the news and the CoVid pandemic we are living through.  There is not one mention of illness or masks.  Here you can forget that those are a part of our world today.

Disclosure: A review copy of this book was sent to me by the author. All of the above opinions are my own.