Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Live and Let Chai by Bree Baker Audio Version My Review

 

About the book 

"A smart and likable protagonist, a vividly rendered setting, a suitably twisty plot, and some colorful supporting characters are the ingredients for a concoction as appealing as any of Everly Swan's specialty sweet teas. I can't wait to try out some of her recipes and to visit this delightful series again." - Livia J. Washburn, national bestselling author of the Fresh-Baked Mysteries


"Fun and intriguing, Live and Let Chai is filled to the brim with Southern charm." - Kirsten Weiss, author of A Pie Town Mystery series


"Bree Baker's seaside town of Charm has everything readers could want: an intrepid and lovable heroine who owns an adorable ice tea cafe, a swoon-worthy hero--and murder. Fast-paced, smartly plotted, and full of surprises, it's as refreshing as a day at the beach!" - Kylie Logan, bestselling author of French Fried


"From the book's expertly evoked North Carolina beach town setting to its charmingly quirky cast of characters, everything about this debut mystery will hit the spot." - VOYA Magazine


"An enjoyable setup for Baker's series, best enjoyed with a sweating glass of sweet tea." - ShelfAwareness


"A charming cozy debut with characters as sweet as the titular tea, a mystery with numerous attractive byways, and a budding romance waiting to be explored." - Kirkus Reviews


Product Description

FIRST BOOK IN A NEW BEACHSIDE COZY MYSTERY SERIES!


When a body turns up on the boardwalk outside Everly Swan's iced tea shop and café, she becomes the number one suspect in a murder case. Can she bag the culprit, prove her innocence, and dish up the real killer before it's too late?


Hitting All the sweet-tea spots, this series is:


A delightful Tea Shop and Café Culinary Mystery


The ideal cozy beach read


Perfect for fans of Laura Childs and Kate Carlisle


Life hasn't been so sweet for Everly Swan over the past couple of years, but now she's back in her seaside hometown of Charm, North Carolina. The proud new owner of Sun, Sand, and Tea—a café right on the beach—Everly thinks that things are finally starting to look up. Until a grouchy customer turns up dead on the boardwalk with a jar of one of her specialty teas lying right next to him! When an autopsy reports poison in his system, things don't look good for Everly or her tea shop.

As the townspeople of Charm, formerly so welcoming and homey, turn their back on Everly, she fights to dig up clues about who could have had it in for the former town councilman. With the maddeningly handsome Detective Grady Hays discouraging her from uncovering leads and a series of anonymous attacks on Everly and her tea shop, it will take everything she's got to keep this murder mystery from boiling over.

INCLUDES DELICIOUS FOOD AND DRINK RECIPES

And I thought 

I have been be wanting to read the his title for awhile.  It's been on my pile longer than I care to admit. 

The author keeps throwing out new titles and offering ARCs and keeping me busy! 

When I discovered the first in the  series Live and Let Chai offered on YouTube I snatched it up!  

I was glad to get into the series in book one. 

It was fun meeting the main characters and townfolk that wander in and out of Everly's new Cafe and her life.  

I like that a possible Romance was introduced in the first few pages when Everly sets sight on the new detective in town as he is arriving with a moving van. 

But the romance is a slow go and simmers a little when Everly finds a body on the beach and detective hunk states that the Tea Everly had just served moments earlier needed to be taken as evidence which causes the townsfolk to reconsider visiting Everly's new Tea shop. 

Bree Baker offers a fun island locale that is just as charming as the towns name Charm.  

Everly's good friend owns a book shop in town and maintains Charming little libraries on the island.   That end up being the scene and hangout of a couple witnesses. 


The series  


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