Author: Julia Buckley
Series: Hungarian Tea House Mystery #3
Genre: Cozy Mystery, Romance, Contemporary
First published: June 3, 2021
Book description: Along with her mother and grandmother, Hana Keller has achieved renown serving tea and cakes with a European flair, but when a local professor is killed, she uncovers a serving of suspects instead.
Review:
We have Hannah again and she just keeps getting mixed up in very peculiar situations. She is trying to juggle her love life, her new discovering psychic abilities and her family tea shop. The Hungarian traditional food, customs, folklore - its on point. It gives the story such a rich atmosphere. I just love that aspect of it.
The romance is still a focus of the storyline, but it does not take a back seat. We still have a main focus on the murder mystery, which works more for me. We also have great examples of family ties and awesome relations of sisters-in-law, it quite refreshing to see in-laws that do not hate the new incoming girlfriend of their favorite son/brother.
The murder mystery starts with a college professor who is murdered. Hannah gets pulled into it because she starts to get signs, she's the only one who has these feelings. Her ability guides the police toward the murder weapon, and when that leads her to a suspect that Queen Fate ends up being a young man who works doing some fixer-up for the Tea House.
From there she gets pulled more into the Hungarian society in her area. Trying to figure out the real feelings people had towards that professor who was clearly not well-liked. We uncover he had fights with his co-workers, issues with his wife, several ex-girlfriends; relationships that could have been happening while he was still married.
It felt like a soap opera, we have so many messy relationships and they are all coming out to the light only because the murderer has to be found.
I gave this
As a whole, this was a nice cozy crime mystery. I would recommend this for people who love atmospheric reads but the main focus on the characters and Hungarian traditions. It feels nice to see a representation of those who you don't see so often mentioned. The folklore was one of the things that made me fall for this book.
It feels awesome to complete series, right? Especially if they have been started recently. I do need some good vibes sent toward me in regards of completing more series.
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