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A Score to Kettle
by Erin Johnson
Series: Magical Tea Room Mysteries #3
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on April 21, 2021
Genres: Cozy Paranormal Mystery
Pages: 156
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Also in this series: Spelling the Tea, With Scream and Sugar, English After-Doom Tea , Steeping Secrets, Save the Last Dance for Tea, Steep With One Eye Open, A Bitter Blend, Tea Die For, Scrying Over Spelled Milk
Welcome to the coziest, vampire-owned tea room in Bath! It’s steeped in magic and mystery.
You’ve got to have your bestie’s back, right? Even if it involves stalking a vampire hunter?
Minnie Wells is getting back out there again after a messy divorce, when she attends a play at the gorgeous Theatre Royal in Bath with a hunky detective. But when Minnie finds the lead actress dead in her dressing room, her fun night out turns into a crime scene.
To heap on the trouble, Minnie also suspects her detective date’s mysterious friend is the rumored vampire hunter. Now Minnie’s racing to solve the playhouse murder while protecting not only her best friend, but also her vampire boss (who she just might have a big crush on). All this, while working at the tea room, learning spells, celebrating the Spring Solstice, and dealing with her dastardly ex.
And it doesn’t help when another body turns up backstage.
Will Minnie upstage the killer and keep her vampire friends safe? Or will it be curtains for this new witch and her paranormal pals?
Pull your armchair closer to the cozy crackling fire, sip your steaming tea, and find out now in A Score to Kettle!
If you like charming towns, a hilarious cast of lovable characters, and twisty mysteries, you’ll adore Erin Johnson’s lighthearted whodunnit. A Score to Kettle is the first book in the Magical Tea Room Mysteries.
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Happy reading!
A Score to Kettle by Erin Johnson is about a deadly date night at the theater and how not everything is how it looks on the outside.
Will Minnie be able to solve who killed the leading lady of Emma?
Minnie Wells
Minnie Wells is our sleuth, and she is neck and neck with Imogen as my favorite of Erin Johnson’s leading ladies. I love how Minnie stays true to what she wants in this new chapter of her life. That is to be with someone even if they are just friends, someone who sees her true self and doesn’t care about anything else. Minnie is a witch, albeit a novice one who’s learning her craft, a writer, and sometimes a sleuth when she doesn’t want to be. I like so many things about Minnie, and I think each new thing that we learn about her throughout the series is a cool tidbit.
Fitz
Fitz is the tea room owner that Minnie works at as a marketing consultant and is definitely more present in this installment. I love how the two of them do their flirting dance. Even more, know that they both know that they like each other. These two will make an interesting couple.
The Mystery
Minnie and Detective Inspector Clive Prescott end their date with a play that ends with the two of them being sucked into another investigation. Prescott because that is his job, and Minnie because she was with Prescott throughout most of the investigation helping out as she wanted actually to figure out whodunit. The victim was stabbed in her dressing room that was locked with a knife. Petra was pretty drugged up with allergy pills that she had taken because of an allergy to cats. Who could have killed the star of the show? This question and more are answered here, and I had a feeling of who it was. Sadly I wrote the culprit off as a red herring. Throughout the investigation, Minnie learns more about her witchiness. Not only that but feeling like her time with Clive Prescott was never supposed to happen.
Five Stars
A Score to Kettle by Erin Johnson is a fun paranormal mystery that I loved from the beginning to the end. Ms. Johnson has stumped me of whodunit. I didn’t follow the clues very well. I feel that Clive Prescott will be a problem later as we figure out more about this vampire hunter. Ms. Johnson has done well and I still love that she is in the same world as her last two-book series were in. Minnie Wells is becoming a favorite of mine the more I read about her. I can’t wait to read what she puts Minnie through in the next book. A Score to Kettle by Erin Johnson is worthy of this strong recommendation and a rating of five stars.
Other Books in the Series
Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of A Score to Kettle by Erin Johnson.
Until the next time,
Happy Reading!
About Erin Johnson
Erin Johnson is a native of Tempe, Arizona, Erin spends her time crafting mysterious, magical, romance-filled stories that’ll hopefully make you laugh.
In between, she’s traveling, napping with her dogs, eating with her friends and family, and teaching Pilates (to allow her to eat more).
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2021 Beachcomber Mystery Reading Challenge
- 2021 Cloak & Dagger
- 2021 Cozy Mystery Reading Challenge on Facebook
- 2021 Craving the Cozies
- 2021 Cruisin’ thru the Cozies
- 2021 Goodreads Reading Challenge
- 2021 Medical Examiner’s Mystery Reading Challenge
- 2021 New Release Reading Challenge
- 2021 Six Shooter Reading Challenge
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