In Peppermint Peril by Joy Avon (Tuesday Intros & Teaser Tuesday)

It's almost as though Vivian Conroy knew that I would need an author whose last name started with an A for the Alphabet Soup Challenge when she started her new Tea and Read Mystery series under the name Joy Avon. I always figured she I and had a special bond beyond author and devoted reader.

In Peppermint Peril is the first in a new cozy mystery series featuring Calliope (Callie) Aspen, who is home at Heart's Harbor, Maine for the holidays and to help her Great Aunt Iphy (whom I adore to pieces) with her business. She has a vintage tea shop where all of her treats are bookish and often mysterious ... which, of course, I adore. When the first couple of chapters drop shoutouts to Agatha Christie and Brother Cadfael I know I've landed in a happy place.

Oh how I'm going to love this series!!! It's got everything I love in a cozy. A setting I would love to call home; a spunky, sassy and sometimes snarky main character; a great set of supporting characters I can't wait to learn more about (I totally want to be Great Aunt Iphy when I grow up!); and an oh-so-swoon-worthy male who dresses up as well AND looks good rugged. Most of all, it had a story that hooked me immediately and it kept me laughing and guessing and wanting more. I already have the next one on my "want to read."

"First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros" is from the first paragraph or two of a book being read now (or in the future) and is hosted by I'd Rather Be At The Beach. "Teaser Tuesday" at The Purple Booker asks for a random line or two from anywhere in the book currently being read.