Itโs all fun and games when Katie Bonner and her friends play poker for chocolate-covered peanuts, but the very next day Jamie Seifert collapses and dies after visiting Katieโs tearoom on Victoria Square.
Katieโs business in on the line and she needs to prove Jamie wasnโt poisoned at Tealicious. Her first order of business is to locate the mysterious woman he was dining with, and her next step is to go undercover at a nearby poker club where Jamie won big just a week before. It seems everyone there might have had a motive to rub Jamie out...and if they learn Katie has been lying to them, she might be next!
The immensely popular Booktown Mystery series is what put Lorraine Bartlettโs pen name Lorna Barrett on the New York Times Bestseller list, but itโs her talent -- whether writing as Lorna, L.L. Bartlett, or Lorraine Bartlettโthat keeps her in her readerโs hearts hearts. This multi-published, Agatha-nominated author pens the exciting Jeff Resnick Mysteries as well as the acclaimed Victoria Square and Lotus Bay Mystery series, and the Tales of Telenia adventure-fantasy saga, and has many short stories and novellas to her name(s).
Gayle Leeson writes the Ghostly Fashionista mystery series, the Down South Cafe mystery series, the Kinsey Falls chick-lit series and is co-author of the Victoria Square Mysteries. She also writes under the names Amanda Lee and Gayle Trent.