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    Shadow of a Spout

    By Amanda Cooper

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    Avid teapot collector Rose Freemont takes a break from her Victorian tea house only to find a new mystery brewing elsewhere...
     
    Leaving her home in Gracious Grove behind her, Rose is off to the annual convention of the International Teapot Collector’s Society. Her granddaughter Sophie is minding the tea house while she’s away. Rose is eager for tough cookie Zunia Pettigrew to appraise a prized antique teapot she believes may be a holy water vessel from China.
     
    But when Zunia declares the pot a fake, Rose is really steamed. After Zunia’s found dead beside Rose’s dinged-in teapot, Sophie must rush to her grandmother’s aid and find the real killer—before Rose is steeped in any more trouble…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateApr 7, 2015
    ISBN9781101610480
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    Shadow of a Spout
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    Amanda Cooper

    Amanda Cooper is a pseudonym for Victoria Hamilton, the national bestselling author of the Vintage Kitchen and Merry Muffin Mystery series.

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    • 4/5
      It is August, and the New York state division of the International Teapot Collectors Society (ITCS) is holding its annual convention in Butterhill, New York. Rose Freemont, owner of Auntie Rose's Victorian Tea House, is attending along with her fellow teapot collectors from Gracious Grove, the Silver Spouts. Meanwhile, Rose's granddaughter, Sophie Taylor, is taking care of Rose's tea house.Zunia Pettigrew, the president of the New York state division of ITCS, offers her opinion on the value of several members' teapots, upsetting most of them. Rose Freemont is aghast when Zunia proclaims Rose's antique teapot, a possible Buddhist holy water vessel, a fraud. A confrontation ensues between Zunia and Rose. In the meantime, Rose's old nemesis, Thelma Mae Earnshaw, is spreading lies about Rose at the convention.Later that night, there is a storm, and an alarm goes off. People emerge from their bedrooms to find Zunia Pettigrew dead, her head bashed in, Rose's teapot lying nearby. Rose and all the convention goers become suspects in Zunia's murder. Sophie Taylor rushes from Gracious Grove to Butterhill to clear her grandmother's name.As she investigates, Sophie discovers a tangle of affairs and lies and wonders if she will ever find the murderer and free her grandmother from suspicion.I enjoyed this book, and it made for a quick read. I had previously read the first and third books in this series and so was familiar with Sophie, Rose, Thelma Mae Earnshaw, and Sophie's friends. This plot definitely had a tangle of lies and deceit, and I did not guess the murderer by the end of the book. This is a great cozy mystery to curl up with on a rainy day, preferably with a nice cup of hot tea!
    • 4/5
      Author Amanda Cooper has brewed another winning cup of mystery with her second addition to her Teapot Collector Mystery series. As with book one, TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT, this book was written from different POVs. It follows several of the characters through the story, allowing the reader to actually be in key scenes as opposed to “hearing” about them through other characters in the book. While I was surprised SHADOW OF A SPOUT left Auntie Rose’s Victorian Tea House and Gracious Grove behind with this being only the second book in the series (a lot of authors may have waited until further into a series), I found it to be very enjoyable. Well done, Ms. Cooper. That being said, I do look forward to getting back to Gracious Grove. The mystery of who killed Zuna Pettigrew (love that name), was not short on suspects, with main character Rose Freemont topping the list. I had my suspect all picked out and ended up being very wrong. I love when a book does that to me. With SHADOW OF A SPOUT, author Copper has certainly assured there will be more books in this wonderful series. Especially with the last few paragraphs bound to leave readers steeping as they wait.Don’t miss A Cup Of Enlightenment at the back of the book (right after a yummy Cherry Blossoms Cookie recipe). It’s a wonderful and extremely interesting explanation on types of tea and how to steep them properly, written by Karen Owen aka Karen Mom of Three who writes the blog and FB pages, A Cup Of Tea And A Cozy Mystery. I’d love to see more of these features in future books in this series.