Murder Spills the Tea

Tea by the Sea Mysteries, Book 3

By: Vicki Delany

Narrated by: Shaina Summerville

Lily Roberts pores over the clues in a piping hot new case when a confrontational celebrity chef is murdered at her Cape Cod tearoom during the filming of a popular baking show . . .

The country's hottest TV cooking show is coming to Cape Cod. Lily Roberts is entering America Bakes! with her charming tearoom, Tea by the Sea! Filming is already proving disruptive, closing the tearoom during Lily's busiest season. But tensions really bubble over when infamous bad-boy chef and celebrity judge, Tommy Greene, loses his temper with Lily's staff, resulting in an on-camera blowout with Cheryl Wainwright. Just as Lily thinks the competition can't get more bitter, Tommy is found dead in Tea by the Sea's kitchen . . . murdered with Cheryl's rolling pin.

Suspicion immediately falls on Cheryl, but the temperamental star has racked up plenty of culinary clashes in the past, both on- and off-screen. And nearly anyone associated with Tommy or the show could be the killer: be it one of Lily's fierce competitors, a member of the beleaguered film crew, or even one of Tommy's fellow judges—struggling cookbook maven, Claudia D'Angelo or beauty contest winner, Scarlet McIntosh. Now, while she's baking up a storm for the show, Lily must also whip up an impromptu investigation . . . before the murderer rolls someone else away.

©2022 Vicki Delany (P)2022 Tantor

Great story…horrible narrator

I’ve always enjoy Vicki Delany’s books and this was no exception. Great character development, story that draws you in and is very entertaining. BUT, the narrator is absolutely horrible. Took away from the storyline. Her English accent is insulting and she speaks like an old 1950’s P.I who is past his prime. She really needs to hang up her microphone.

Murder On A TV Baking Show

Lily solves her first murder mystery while competing in a TV Baking Show that is filmed at her bakery, and it’s amazing that towards the end of the book, she and the murderer are like Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty at the cliffs, like a Swiss Alps twist on the North Augusta Sea cliffs that make a connection in the story of Sherlock Holmes and The Final Problem!

You'll need tea

It wasn't a bad story, there were some nice parts. However the British accents were terrible.