Brenda H. (booksinvt) - , reviewed on 2/18/2019 + 465 more book reviews

Sweet Tea and Secrets is the second installment in the A Tea and Read Mystery series set in Heart's Harbor, Maine and featuring retired tour guide, Callie Aspen. Callie is slowly settling into her new life working with her Aunt Iphy in her tea shop, Book Tea but is having second thoughts about her decision to relocate especially since the hunky Deputy Falk whom she thought she'd made an earlier connection with is suddenly seeming to avoid her.

Callie decides to throw herself into putting together a series of historical events for the annual Fourth of July celebration. Aunt Iphy has found a cottage for Callie to move into and a mysterious handyman, Quinn Darrow offers to lend a hand fixing it up. Quinn encourages Callie to look into the disappearance of Monica Walker, a TV star who had been vacationing in Heart's Harbor in the 1980's. Speculation about what happened to the actress varies among the townspeople, some think she drowned on a stolen boat and some think she arranged her own disappearance. Callie begins to look into the mystery and soon finds herself the target of a killer.

I once again had a difficult time connecting to the main character, and readers of the series will be disappointed that there is again very little interaction between Callie and Aunt Iphy. Callie doesn't really spend any time at Book Tea and Haywood Hall (which was the center of the previous series installment) only receives minimal mention. The plot was enough to keep me turning the pages and I will give the series one more try when the next addition is released.

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