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Scones and Slander
(2026)(The second book in the Teapot Tails Mystery series)
A novel by Hailey Hartley
When Ashbourne's most notorious gossip turns up dead in the back alley behind her tearoom, bakery owner Meg Fairley finds herself with more than a ruined Wednesday on her hands. Adele Quint made a career out of knowing things she wasn't supposed to, and someone in this prosperous little New Hampshire town had finally decided that was one thing too many. With her own marble rolling pin lying at the scene — missing from her kitchen for three days — Meg has every reason to find out what Adele had found, and every reason to find it fast.
With her Maine Coon cat Sorrel keeping a very pointed watch over a quilted tea cozy Adele left behind, and her sharp-tongued neighbor Ruth supplying dry wit and useful scissors in equal measure, Meg begins pulling threads that lead from the tearoom counter to the civic records office to a polished front door on Meadow Lane. What emerges is a portrait of a life built on borrowed respectability — a secret marriage, a void inheritance, and a woman who had arranged everything around her so carefully that even a small-town gossip with a notebook and a certified copy could bring it all down. Sheriff Tess Mallory is thorough, but some pieces only come together over a pot of tea.
Warm, witty, and layered like a good scone, Scones and Slander is the second book in the Teapot Tails series — a cozy mystery for anyone who believes that the truth always rises to the surface, that a clever woman and a determined cat make formidable investigators, and that the most elegant secrets are usually the most dangerous ones to keep.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
With her Maine Coon cat Sorrel keeping a very pointed watch over a quilted tea cozy Adele left behind, and her sharp-tongued neighbor Ruth supplying dry wit and useful scissors in equal measure, Meg begins pulling threads that lead from the tearoom counter to the civic records office to a polished front door on Meadow Lane. What emerges is a portrait of a life built on borrowed respectability — a secret marriage, a void inheritance, and a woman who had arranged everything around her so carefully that even a small-town gossip with a notebook and a certified copy could bring it all down. Sheriff Tess Mallory is thorough, but some pieces only come together over a pot of tea.
Warm, witty, and layered like a good scone, Scones and Slander is the second book in the Teapot Tails series — a cozy mystery for anyone who believes that the truth always rises to the surface, that a clever woman and a determined cat make formidable investigators, and that the most elegant secrets are usually the most dangerous ones to keep.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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