num_pages: 288
description: Sleuth Callie Aspen wants to light up the Fourth of July tea party by solving a celebritys decades-old disappearance but her digging results in more fireworks than she expects.Last Christmas Callie Aspen left her tour guide job and settled in Heart's Harbor Maine. Now she helps out at Book Tea her great aunts vintage tearoom where each treat has a bookish clue. Though shes excited to start her new life Callie worries she may regret having burned her bridges behind her. Fortunately she finds immediate distraction in the preparations for a spectacular Fourth of July tea party which will recreate key moments from the town's rich history.Intrigued to learn that 1980s TV star Monica Walker was last seen in Heart's Harbor before she vanishedallegedly to elopeCallie probes the townsfolk for information. Shes stunned when several locals share contradictory stories about the last day before Monica's disappearance. Did she intend to leave her hit TV series? Was she being stalked by her ex? And why is the newspaper editor who investigated the story at the time so anxious about the cold case heating up?When one of the talkative townspeople turns up dead Callie aims to catch the killer. But its no picnic: Deputy Falk doesnt want her meddling and the locals suddenly know more about the past than theyd been at liberty to admit. If Callie and the Book Tea crew cant crack the case theyll pay a very steep price in Joy Avon's explosive second Book Tea Shop Mystery.
language: English
title: Sweet Tea and Secrets
publisher: Crooked Lane Books