A master gardener dies within hours of kissing the Blarney Stone. Was it the stone, or was he poisoned?
After a high-profile client experiences an ugly breakup, professional matchmaker Penny Cavanagh decides she’s long overdue for a vacation. Eager for a change of scenery and quality time with loved ones, she travels from San Diego to Ireland, to the quaint village of Blarney Green, where her beloved grandmother and other family members still live. Not far from Blarney Castle, the Irish hamlet is a busy tourist destination and the ideal location for her grandmother’s popular tearoom. Penny only intends to stay for two weeks, but her grandmother has other plans.
In this first book of the Irish Tearoom Mysteries, the blame for a high-profile murder lands squarely at the door of The Merry Teapot. Was he poisoned by his Irish breakfast tea? To the frustration of Garda Detective Inspector Finn Campbell, Penny sets out to track down a murderer.
Book 1 of the Irish Tearoom Mysteries, A Deadly Brew, finds an English master gardener with ties to Penny’s grandmother in town to visit the castle’s famed poison garden. He dies within hours of kissing the Blarney stone, and the news spreads like wildfire through the village. Superstitious theories abound, but when fingers begin pointing toward The Merry Teapot, Penny suspects someone with sinister intentions is to blame and she sets out to uncover the truth – despite the concerned warnings from the very handsome and attentive Inspector Campbell.
