Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes

Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery Series, Book 1

By: Karen Rose Smith

Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney

Daisy, a widowed mom of two teenagers, is used to feeling protective - so when Iris started dating the wealthy and not-quite-divorced Harvey Fitz, she worried...especially after his bitter ex stormed in and caused a scene at the party Daisy's Tea Garden was catering. Then there was the gossip she overheard about Harvey's grown children being cut out of his will. Daisy didn't want her aunt to wind up with a broken heart - but she never expected Iris to wind up a suspect in Harvey's murder.

Now the apple bread and orange pekoe is on the back burner while the cops treat the shop like a crime scene - and Daisy hopes that Jonas Groft, a former detective from Philadelphia, can help her clear her aunt's name and bag the real killer before things boil over....

©2018 Karen Rose Smith (P)2017 Tantor

Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes

Delightful and charming. Suspenseful with a blossoming sweet romance. Outstanding narrator. Looking forward to the next in the series.

Compelling and uplifting.

Now I want to get back into tea and start baking again! Loved the characters , so endearing and genuine. Can’t wait to read more from this author! Hoping there is more, indeed, about these characters !

Easy Listening

Good company, while driving in traffic! Nice story and nice reader. I enjoyed it very much.

Good cozy murder mystery

I haven't delved into audio books in a while but I really enjoyed this one. Without giving anything away... I thought the storyline of the mystery itself was good. There were some predictable parts but not so much that it was annoying but thats why i gave it 4 stars instead of 5. I live in the region in which the book is set (philadlephia region.. South East PA) and I thought the description of the area and of PA in general was pretty good and actually made me feel more involved with the story. I can't wait to start book 2.

I struggled with the narrator

I don't know how to describe it, whether it was her cadence or pace or annunciation or what. It just wasn't a natural story-telling method. Jazzy's voice just didn't fit as a teenage girl but the other voices were okay. The story itself wasn't bad, a bit predictable except for the ending which almost seemed like a "oh, we're at the end, so let's just pull something out of a hat to wrap it up" ending. Not that it's a bad thing to have an unexpected ending but there was literally nothing up to that point (in my opinion) that prepared me for it to be THAT person. I'm trying to listen to Book 2 now, same narrator so it's painful. It doesn't help that (even though I don't remember her doing this in Book 1) she has pronounced SCONES as "SKAWNS" about a dozen times and I'm still in the first chapter. Seriously? How does this slip through?