When Jenny Davis comes across a beautiful vintage tea set at an outdoor market in the English countryside, she’s convinced it’s fate. A young bride on a budget, she has her heart set on a vintage tea-party theme for her wedding. There’s only one problem. Two other women have fallen in love with the tea set, too. So they come up with a solution: They’ll share it.

In this charming new cozy mystery series a New York City expat-turned-Cape Cod afternoon tea room owner must solve the murder of a local real estate developer to help her feisty grandmother out of a jam. There are currently 3 books in the Tea by the Sea Mysteries series to add to your reading list!

We see it all through the eyes of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by the Shin family, proprietors of a tea ceremony school, after their daughter, Yukako, finds her hiding on their grounds. Aurelia becomes Yukako’s closest companion, and they, the Shin family, and all of Japan face a time of great challenges and uncertainty. The Teahouse Fire is a lively, provocative, and lushly detailed historical novel of epic scope and compulsive readability.

Heartbroken and devastated from her husband's affair, Rosie drowns her sorrows in a glass (or three) of wine, only to discover the following morning that she has spontaneously invested in a bright pink campervan to facilitate her grand plans to travel the country. Now, Rosie is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime, and the chance to change her life! With Poppy, her new-found travelling tea shop in tow, nothing could go wrong, could? 

Following the death of her husband, Anna Hemingway decides it's time for a fresh start. So, Anna and her three-year-old daughter Ellie move to a picture-perfect cottage in the village of Little Somerby. When Anna takes over the village tea shop, she starts to find happiness again. But things get complicated when Matthew Carter, the owner of the local cider farm, enters her life.

For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that it's her own fault. She was the one who unknowingly brewed the poison tea that killed her―the poison tea that now threatens to also take her sister. Ning competes in a competition to find the kingdom's greatest shennong-shi―masters of the ancient and magical art of tea-making. The winner will receive a favor from the princess, which may be her only chance to save her sister's life. This is book 1 of 2 in the series.

Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once
provided water for her whole village. But secrets do not stay hidden forever. After her father’s death the army starts watching their town and water becomes even scarcer. Noria must choose between safety and striking out, between knowledge and kinship.

After escaping family drama to start a new life in New York City Laurie Davis gets a job as an assistant and tour guide for the star of television’s Tea-Time with Pamela. As they cruise around bakeries in New England trading local delights like Red Velvet Cake and Whoopie Pies for British specialties such as Victoria Sponge and Bakewell Tarts, more secrets than recipes are revealed. Laurie and Pamela find there’s nothing a nice cup of tea, a sweet treat, and a little bit of friendship can’t heal.

Just as Ava Dove’s new tearoom is about to open her herbal teas have gone haywire. Her sleep-inducing tea is startling her clients awake with vivid dreams, her romance-kindling tea is causing people to blurt out their darkest secrets, and her anti-anxiety tea is making them spend hours staring into mirrors. Ava is desperate for a remedy, but her search leads her into dangerous territory, as she is forced to face a dark secret she’s been hiding for over a decade. The first book in this series is called The Book Charmer.

As Zoe, Emily and Shannon grow into women—forging careers, following dreams and finding love—they’ll learn that life doesn’t always unfold the way they want it to, but through it all, the one constant is each other, and their regular tea parties. And when the unthinkable happens, the girls must come together to face the greatest test of all.

Three women’s path unexpectedly cross and they throw themselves into a magical vision for London’s branch of The Tea Chest. But every time success is within their grasp, increasing tensions damage their trust in each other. An novel about the unexpected situations life throws at us, and how love and friendship help us through. Written with heart and infused with the seductive scents of bergamot, Indian spices, lemon, rose and caramel, it's a world you won't want to leave.

In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. The main character has a baby out of wedlock. She rejects the tradition that would compel her to give the child over to be killed. Instead, she leaves the child near an orphanage with a tea cake. The story of tea, puerh especially, is highlighted throughout. This is a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.

Pebble Cove is not the sleepy coastal town Rosemary remembers from her childhood. Ghosts are everywhere, and only she can see them. When she inherits her estranged grandmother’s Victorian teahouse, she doesn’t expect to also inherit a ghost. A body has washed up on the beach, and the police suspect her in the man’s murder. She’s trying to navigate her newfound ability to talk to ghosts. And she doesn’t even know the first thing about tea. There are 8 books in this teahouse mystery series.

After a tough break-up, Ellie returns to the only place she's ever really felt at home – the coastal town of Sanderson Bay. A year later, she's living her dream, brewing delicious artisan teas and selling them at her very own café. And when the mysterious and brooding Ben walks into her tearoom, Ellie finally dares to dream of true love. But someone might be hiding an unwelcome secret.

Annie, Genna, and Zoe have been hanging out at the Steeping Leaf since elementary school. The Teashop Girls do everything together. However, the end of eighth grade is approaching and the girls are getting too busy. Plus, an eviction notice spells trouble for the Steeping Leaf and unless they can turn the business around, the teashop will have to close its doors forever. What will happen to tea every week, no matter what?

Vivian Wainwright is living her dream. The middle-aged widow owns the Misty Bay Tearoom, a quaint, English-accented shop on the Oregon coast. But on the eve of the tearoom's second anniversary, the dream turns nightmarish when a man falls to his death from a hotel balcony. There are currently 2 books in this tea room mystery series.

In this Young Adult novel, Marnie Wells comes face-to-face with the occult when she discovers her ability to read tea leaves might help solve the mystery of a classmate's disappearance. The ceremony and symbols are weirdly soothing, she assumed none of it was real, until suddenly the readings were as real as ever. It's a “page-ripping whodunit”!

When eccentric businessman and magician Martin Steepe hosts a tea party to find a wife, Charlotte doesn’t expect to be chosen. After all she’s only a baker’s daughter aspiring to be a penny blood author and the Steepes want to marry into nobility. Except he does choose her. With enchanted tea leaves. Unfortunately for Charlotte he doesn’t even know her name let alone that she isn’t nobility. And she isn’t entirely certain having the same favorite tea is a good basis for a marriage.

Patisserie-Chef Stevie is stuck in a rut. Her beloved Great Aunt Peggy has passed away and she’s lost both her job and the love of her life. Then she gets the call from the solicitor's office about Peggy’s will, and everything changes. When Stevie sees a quirky tea shop up for sale in the beautiful village of Tanglewood, she decides to take Peggy’s advice and turn her life around.

Layla's life as a newly married woman takes her away from home and into the jungles of Assam, where the world's finest tea thrives on plantations run by native labor and British efficiency. She struggles to find her place among the prickly English wives with whom she is expected to socialize, and the peculiar servants she now finds under her charge. But navigating the tea-garden set will hardly be her biggest challenge. Her remote home is not safe from the powerful changes sweeping India on the heels of WWII. 

For Lila Reyes, a summer in England was never part of the plan. The plan was 1) take over her abuela’s role as head baker at their panadería, 2) move in with her best friend after graduation, and 3) live happily ever after with her boyfriend. A teashop clerk with troubles of his own, Orion is determined to help Lila out of her funk, and appoints himself as her personal tour guide.

In an old Victorian in the heart of Pennsylvania's Amish country, Daisy Swanson and her aunt Iris serve soups, scones, and soothing teas to tourists and locals--but a murder in their garden has them in hot water. This is book 1 of A Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery. There are currently 8 books in this series.

When a man is poisoned by tea, Theodosia Browning, owner of Charleston's beloved Indigo Tea Shop, must prove her innocence and track down the real killer...before someone else takes their last sip. This is book 1 of A Tea Shop Mystery. There are currently 23 books in this series.

Pauline meets of Todd, the new hired help, from atop the counter at her mother’s tea shop. It doesn't take long for a special blend of love to infuse into their hearts. But how can they make a relationship work when Todd can’t tell a Darjeeling from a Ceylon? This is the first book in the Love on Belmont series.

Baking fanatic, Charlie Quilter, inherits a vintage bus in her late uncle’s will and is keen to give it a new lease of life. Charlie thinks it will be the perfect mobile café for afternoon tea, so she heads to the picturesque Cornish village of Porthgolow, hoping for a new start. There are currently 4 books in The Cornish Cream Tea series.

Muldoon’s Tea Rooms, beloved for the cozy atmosphere and luscious desserts, has started looking a bit outdated—and the same could be said about the proprietors, Penny and Daniel Stanley. After 17 years, their marriage has started to fade and wear a little thin, even as their old shop bustles with the energy of the customers who seek refuge from their particular dilemmas.

Journalist Charlotte is on a mission to scope out Britain's best tea rooms. She knows she's found something special in the Seafront Tea Rooms but is it a secret she should share? Kathryn, a single mother whose only sanctuary is the 'Seafront', convinces Charlie to keep the place out of her article by agreeing to join her on her search.

Grace opens a café where she serves tea and macarons to the women of Macau. There she carves out a new definition of home and family. But when her marriage reaches a crisis, secrets Grace thought she had buried long ago rise to the surface. With each cup of tea steeped and macaron baked, Grace comes to learn that strength can be gleaned from the unlikeliest of places.

Sarah Gardner's husband went to sleep one night and never woke up. Kate Morgan thought she had met the man of her dreams during what was a perfect summer vacation. Louise Delaney’s perfect world is upended when she gets a visit from a sixteen-year-old who says she is husband’s daughter. Three exceptional women—each of whose hearts are broken into a million pieces—come together in this extraordinary tale of life, love, and true friendship over cups of tea.

Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. After a matchmaking appointment, Vanessa sees death for the first time. She decides that she can't truly live until she can find a way to get rid of her uncanny abilities. When her eccentric Aunt Evelyn shows up with a tempting offer to whisk her away, Vanessa says au revoir to California and bonjour to Paris.