MURDER IN A CUP

Shop owner Shayleigh Myers continues to defend her legacy against threats worldly and otherworldly.

Shay never knew her mother, Bridget Early, but she received two precious gifts from her: Crystals & CuriosiTEAS, a tea shop in Bray Harbor, California, and an amulet containing a mysterious blue stone. The first she runs as a means of making a living and sharing her mother’s herbal healing secrets with her neighbors. The second she wears on a cord around her neck, showing it only to a select number of family members and friends. Now Peter Graham is threatening to ruin Shay’s business with a lawsuit accusing her of indoctrinating his teenage daughter, Tassi, into the practice of witchcraft through Tassi’s part-time job at CuriosiTEAS. In the meantime, Shay’s neighbor Liam Madigan alerts her to the possibility of a messenger sent from the old country who has his eye on her amulet. Liam’s Gran, recently relocated to Bray Harbor from Ireland, has a wealth of information about Shay’s lineage, though she parcels it out sparingly for fear of overwhelming Shay with too-powerful knowledge of her ancestors’ association with seers and fairies. While Shay is intrigued by Gran’s folk wisdom, she has a more pedestrian task ahead of her: finding out who poisoned Peter’s girlfriend, Jasmine Massey, before the police charge Tassi with the crime.

For readers who like their whodunits with a supernatural twist.