Gallery Night MURDER: A British Bookshop Tea Cozy Mystery with a Cat

About Gallery Night MURDER: A British Bookshop Tea Cozy Mystery with a Cat

Maisie Hart is starting to believe Durham has a loyalty card for corpses. Business at The Dog-Eared Teacup is finally steady. The scones are selling, the bookshop smells like paper and optimism, and her rescue cat Wicket has resumed his role as unofficial security guard and full-time menace. For the first time since she fled London, Maisie thinks she might be safe. Then she goes to an art gallery opening. Minutes after Maisie overhears a tense, whispered argument behind a display wall, a university student collapses with a champagne flute still in her hand. The gallery erupts. The guests scatter. And DI Rory Maddox arrives with that look that says: not you again. Maisie tries to stay out of it. She truly does. But the victim was a student curator with a talent for making enemies and a habit of digging into the sort of donations nobody wants questioned. When Maisie learns the girl was researching a controversial acquisition tied to university prestige and “heritage partners,” curiosity turns into necessity. The case gets personal fast. Maisie’s best friend has a smooth new boyfriend who knows an uncomfortable amount about the art world. The Quill Club is thrilled by him, which is basically a warning siren. Rory is caught between protecting the investigation and protecting Maisie. And Wicket, in a moment of perfect timing, forces Maisie into a locked gallery storage area where she spots something that should not exist. A crate with a fresh label slapped over an older one. Someone is hiding provenance. Someone is hiding money. And someone is prepared to kill again to keep it buried. Gallery Night MURDER is a twisty, bookish, laugh-out-loud British culinary cozy mystery packed with suspects, secrets, clean romance tension, and one cat determined to investigate everything that smells like trouble. Series orderBook 1: Scone Shop MURDERBook 2: Gallery Night MURDERBook 3: Cloister Secret MURDERBook 4: Fête Day MURDERBook 5: May Morning MURDERBook 6: Funeral Tea MURDERClean read: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.

If you love British whodunits, cat cozies, culinary mysteries, and small-town secrets with bite, this one’s for you