Trouble is Brewing: 09/23/24

Trouble is Brewing by Vicki Delany and Shaina Summerville (Narrator) (2024) is the fifth book in the Tea by the Sea mystery series. Lily Robert's Tea by the Sea tearoom is hosting a bridal shower and a groom's family is staying at the bed and breakfast. Unfortunately the groom's father is found dead the next morning in his room. Did he drink himself to death or was he poisoned?

The upcoming marriage is between the son and daughter of ex-business partners. The groom's family has money and the bride's family doesn't. Rather, they live comfortably but not to the sorts of lavishness that the groom's mother is accustomed. The bitterness between the families, though, is business related, not money leaving Lily pondering the roots of this on-going tension.

The solution to this mystery — at the least the who of the whodunnit — was unfortunately obvious. It wasn't even a particularly clever solution. Here's another mystery where the murderer all but announces that they've committed the crime and they do it early on and frequently throughout the book. I'm honestly shocked that Lily, who like most of Delany's main characters, is usually very observant, completely misses obvious person being obvious.

Four stars

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