A Slice of Trouble

A Slice of Trouble — Book 7 of The Thistlewood Tea & Treats Mysteries. County fair season. Prize pies, old rivalries, and one entry that never made it to the judging table.

Tom Garrett's grandmother is at the centre of it, though nobody says so at first. There is a missing entry, a substance that has no business near a baking tent, and a judge whose evidence does not quite line up. Jack Fenn has a pattern. Bernard is recovering. The provenance of a recipe matters more than anyone expected, and Maggie's strawberries turn out to be the thread that unpicks the whole thing.

What to expect

• A full-length country-fair mystery with a strong, fair solution
• Baking, rivalry and a village at its most competitive
• Standalone; the longest book in the series so far

About the series

Thistlewood is an English village with a tea shop at its heart, a cat with a habit of turning up at the wrong moment, and rather more secrets than its size suggests. These are cosy mysteries in the traditional sense: an amateur sleuth, a closed circle of suspects, clues laid fairly on the page, and no graphic violence or gore.

Every book stands completely on its own — start anywhere — though readers who follow the series will keep meeting Pearl Whitmore, Clara Webb, Biscuit the cat and the rest of the village. 129 pages.

Browse the whole series in Cozy Mysteries, try the Romance Novels shelf, or explore the full Arb Digital Library.

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