Her thermos. Her tea. Her honey. Someone else’s crime.
After eight years as a flavor chemist in Boston, Christina Thistle returned to the Maine coast to preserve her Aunt Philippa’s legacy: a mismatched, beloved tea shop on a hundred-year-old waterfront block.
When an ambitious developer, the man threatening to bulldoze everything she’s worked to protect, is found dead on a foggy Wednesday morning, police come knocking with evidence bags and hard questions.
What follows is a race through salt-aired streets and coastal fog, past harbor seals and lobster boats and suspicious council meetings, as Christina uses her chemistry background, her regulars’ gossip networks, and her frankly judgmental cat to uncover a conspiracy threaded through the very fabric of the town she’s trying to save.
A Bitter Brew is a witty, atmospheric cozy mystery with a heroine who knows that some of the most dangerous things in the world come in the most innocent-looking jars.
