Fantastic Ending

The scene near the end with Muesli and Gemma after a visit from Devlin was just beautiful!

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Wrongfully Infused

Another fun murder mystery where Gamma ends up loosening ever when she was right. Read brilliantly again by Pearl Hewitt.

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loved it. loads of fun

A wonderful series and another lighthearted mystery with Gemma, Muesli, and co. I really enjoy all the recurring characters and quirkiness they add to the story; Gemma's Mum being a favourite and Devlin too of course. A certain scene with Devlin had me laughing out loud there are plenty of clues for Gemma to follow and a few twists to keep us all guessing. Muesli helps along the way and the old biddies stick their noses in as well. It’s a lot of fun and I'll be sad when the series ends.
I voluntarily reviewed a copy provided by the publisher.

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Great series

Pearl is always a delight! She most always narrate this series! Light hearted, griping and fun! I wish Gemma was on Instagram or had a blog to share recipes!

Story line was interesting and I liked the attempt to keep the book fresh. I am always surprised that its never crossed the minds of any of the characters to be angry with Gemma's involvement, the girl was announced in the paper as killing or having bad blood with Ms Wongs daughter, yet Gemma still shows at the house, lends the woman her cat (as a cat parent I would never!) and goes into the victims room, never ounce thinking her grieving mum might be vexed at the her. Also seen in other books whereby the killer is caught and linked to other victims who Gemma still swans about from never suspecting they may harbour some ill will. It doesn't affect the reading just makes me chuckle.

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This is by far my favourite book in the series!

Fair play to H.Y. Hanna, this was a bit different to the previous books in the series, but my god was it good, I laughed out loud a number of times. This was excellent I binged it in two days. Pearl Hewitt is a joy to listen to, I think she is brilliant and brings the characters to life. The old biddies are amazing, especially in this book, some of the things they say are incredible! The ending was really good and very refreshing, I liked it very much, I have wanted to see an ending like this... I'm not going to spoil it, but yes I want to see more authors do a story like this. What I would like to see moving forward is for Gemma to mature and grow, especially to start standing up for herself. I hear the way people talk to her and treat her, sod em, Gemma should not very politely tell them to go away or in regards to her mum, put her in her place, and the old girls. She should say something like;

"Right, if you lot break into this house I will call the police and watch them arrest you and hall you away, don't think I won't!" "Gemma you wouldn't" "Oh yes I would, and I will watch it all happen with a big smile on my face!" "Gemma, that's just mean..." "Well listen to me and you won't land up being arrested and put in handcuffs!" "I've never been put in handcuffs before?" "I have, it was fun, we were role playing!" "Glenda, there is such a thing as over sharing!"

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Love this series!

So good to have another instalment, worth the wait. Always look forward to the next

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Great murder mystery series

A Light and amusing series. Serious detecting by an amusing group of amateur sleuths. Mixed with personal highs and lows of Gemma the main character and her little cat.
Can’t wait for the next book.

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Weak plot of tea

I have listened to all the books in this series; this one was as lifeless as a flat Victoria sponge cake. All the usual ingredients were assembled: Muesli, the old biddies, an interfering mother, the police and several suspects, but the plot was weak and drawn out (too much padding). Devlin was even more chauvinistic than usual. Gemma should choose the nice doctor Lincoln instead. The narrator was brilliant, as always, but I found the occasional bad language jarring; it just doesn't work with the predominantly sweet, middle-class ambience. The ending was a bit of a surprise. I appreciate that the recaps are necessary for new readers, but they are a tad annoying. And please could the deep breaths and eye rolling (what is that?) be lessened.
Overall, it was disappointing; I had been looking forward to listening to this. Perhaps the author has exhausted credible story lines for this series.

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A nice cuppa

I enjoyed this book on the kindle but loved it as an audio book, even knowing who the killer was I hooked. The author is talented enough to mix mystery with humour and does it in a way that is entertaining and keeps you guessing until the very last word. The characters are fun and like able and with the elderly sidekicks there is certainly some very funny situations. This is a great series and I think over time it has just gotten even better as we have gotten to know the wonderful characters and there quirky ways. The mystery was good and with plenty of suspects it worked well with the existing characters, I had guessed who the killer might have been but was by no means certain. There is a lot going on in the story but it is easy to follow, even if this is your first visit to the tea room. The ending also had me in shock, I did not see that coming but don't worry the mystery does get solved and it refers to the main characters love life, can't wait for the next book to see where things go from here.
Gemma is worried when she only has one customer in her tea shop. When she discovers a tea bar has just opened up on the other side of the village and with all the opening promotions running its got the villagers interest, including her loyal customers. Gemma and her best friend decided to check out the competition and quickly learn not everything is as cracked up as it seems, the food has a lot to be desired, its to trendy for a small village and the owner Azalea isn't the friendliest. When Gemma's tea room start to get bad reviews on the internet she has a good idea of who is behind it but can she prove it? Then at a community meeting her mother asked her to help at Gemma discovers the get together is being held at her rivals tea bar. Then Gemma finds Azalea body in the kitchen and becomes the number one suspect in her murder. With her boyfriend on the scene of the murder and his relationship with the top suspect he is taken off the case. With Muesli comforting the grieving family it gives Gemma plenty of opportunity to get to know the murder victim through her remaining family members but could one of them really have killed the ruthless business owner? The old biddies are also up to the challenge of clearing Gemma's name even if it's just distracting a young police office, giving Gemma the room to investigate. Can she find the motive and reason why Azalea died and with the competition out of the way is the tea shop saved?
I like the very talented narrator, who puts in an entertaining performance.
I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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excellent

excellent as usual. well written and excellently read. mamy rwists and turns. good to know there' s more tocome.

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