Tea and Cake and Death

In Tea and Cake and Death, the second book in the Bookshop Detective Series, Gareth and Louise Ward have written another cosy crime story about two former police officers who, although they are now bookshop owners, still find crimes to solve in their neighbourhood.

Garth and Eloise, with the assistance of their dog Stevie, are constantly involved in community book groups and promotions including the big annual event - The Battle of the Book Clubs - which they organise as a fundraiser for a group looking after people with cancer. All goes well until a month before the event when a member of the community is poisoned at a book event. Several other readers follow the same fate. 

When the bookshop owners investigate they discover a link with similar deaths in 2016. They also suspect that these attacks may be directed at them and relate to an arrest made in England before they left the police force and moved to New Zealand. As the day of the Battle of the Book Clubs approaches it is imperative that they discover the perpetrator of these crimes.