A Death in Chamomile: Small-Town Tea Shop Cozy Mystery

Chamomile is the tea of rest and healing. Somebody used Lila's blend to kill the woman who commissioned it.The Langford Wellness Retreat is the biggest commission Honeyleaf Tea Room has ever been offered: a bespoke herbal programme for a converted Jacobean manor on the edge of Maplewick's eastern woodland. Lila Hartwell builds a chamomile-led sleep blend she is proud of. On the retreat's third morning, Dr. Vivienne Ashby is found dead in her private suite, and it looks like an accidental overdose of that very formula.It should not be possible, and Lila can prove it is not. What she cannot yet explain is the practitioner Vivienne described only as known to me from before, the credential that returns nothing when you check it, and a three-year-old grievance that has been waiting patiently in the margins for someone to write it down.The fourth Honeyleaf Tea Room Mystery. Autumn in the Cotswolds, a crime committed in a space Lila helped create, and a quieter thread running underneath it all: Archie, and the things he does not say.