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Darjeeling Deadlines
(2026)(The third book in the Teapot Tails Mystery series)
A novel by Hailey Hartley
When celebrated crime novelist Clifford Mace books a week-long writer's retreat in the coastal Maine town of Wychford, tearoom owner Wren Callister is prepared for a demanding guest — and Mace does not disappoint. He has opinions about water temperature, a standing reservation at her best corner table, and a habit of smoking out the rear window that Wren accepts with the professional grace of a woman who has handled worse. What she is not prepared for is finding him slumped over his Darjeeling on Thursday afternoon, a half-burned cigarette gone cold in the ashtray and his afternoon routine finished rather more permanently than either of them had planned. The tea, Wren knows with certainty, is not to blame. The question is what is.
With her cynical black cat Pip standing unwavering guard over a saucer that has no business being as interesting as he seems to think it is, and her sharp-eyed friend Celia supplying literary gossip and a great deal of useful reading from two doors down the Row, Wren begins following the threads that run from Mace's polished public reputation into something considerably more complicated underneath. Between a literary agent with knowledge he kept carefully to himself, a publicist whose months of meticulous preparation rested on foundations she didn't know were unstable, and a quiet young woman whose ink-stained hands suggest a rather different role than the one on her business card, the picture that emerges is one of creative theft, a contract that should never have been signed, and three years of doors that opened onto nothing. Deputy Sheriff Leo Brandt is methodical, but some conclusions only form over a properly steeped pot of Darjeeling.
Warm, witty, and brewed to full strength, Darjeeling Deadlines is the third book in the Teapot Tails series — a cozy mystery for anyone who believes that the sharpest observations happen from the quietest corners, that a clever woman, a watchful cat, and a first-flush Darjeeling make for an investigation worth following to the last drop.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
With her cynical black cat Pip standing unwavering guard over a saucer that has no business being as interesting as he seems to think it is, and her sharp-eyed friend Celia supplying literary gossip and a great deal of useful reading from two doors down the Row, Wren begins following the threads that run from Mace's polished public reputation into something considerably more complicated underneath. Between a literary agent with knowledge he kept carefully to himself, a publicist whose months of meticulous preparation rested on foundations she didn't know were unstable, and a quiet young woman whose ink-stained hands suggest a rather different role than the one on her business card, the picture that emerges is one of creative theft, a contract that should never have been signed, and three years of doors that opened onto nothing. Deputy Sheriff Leo Brandt is methodical, but some conclusions only form over a properly steeped pot of Darjeeling.
Warm, witty, and brewed to full strength, Darjeeling Deadlines is the third book in the Teapot Tails series — a cozy mystery for anyone who believes that the sharpest observations happen from the quietest corners, that a clever woman, a watchful cat, and a first-flush Darjeeling make for an investigation worth following to the last drop.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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