Four Puddings And A Funeral – H Y Hanna

I frowned at her, bending over to pick up the lipstick and put it back on the table. The little tabby gave me a look, then batted the lipstick again, making it roll off the edge of the table once more. “Muesli! Stop it!” I picked up the lipstick again, putting it on the other side of the table this time and out of her reach.

“Meeorrwww,” said Muesli petulantly, turning to glare at the other side of the room where snuffling sounds could be heard coming from a cage tucked into the corner. I smiled to myself. So that was why she was in a temper! When I’d finally got home from the Covered Market and introduced Muesli to Pricklebum, the little cat had not taken kindly to the suggestion of sharing her home with a houseguest.

She had let me know in no uncertain terms all evening, stalking around with a scowl on her whiskered face and a hiss on her tongue. After examining the hedgehog suspiciously through the bars of the cage, she had proceeded to ignore him—except to occasionally give him a glare when the sounds of him happily munching her cat biscuits got too loud for her liking. “It’s only for a few days, Muesli,” I promised her. “He’s not moving in with us permanently.” “Meorrw!” Muesli shot the hedgehog cage another dirty look, then jumped off the dressing table and stalked from the bedroom, the tip of her tail twitching.

I hastily finished getting ready, then scooped up Muesli, put her in her cat carrier, and set off. A short while later, I found myself pacing the hallway in my parents’ house as I waited for Devlin to arrive, hoping nervously that he wouldn’t be late. According to my mother, tardiness was the eighth deadly sin.

Devlin was normally very punctual but I knew that sometimes work could delay him. The bell rang and I sprang forwards to open the door, then fell back in dismay as I saw who was standing on the threshold. It was Lincoln Green and his mother, Helen. “Lincoln! Er… Aunt Helen…” I greeted them in surprise. “Your mother invited us around to dinner this evening,” Lincoln explained, looking very embarrassed. He darted a look at his mother.

“I… I thought it would be better if we came another time but… Mum insisted.” “Hello, Gemma,” said Helen Green in a cool tone, her manner very stiff.

Business is going well at Gemma Rose’s quaint English teashop and she’s delighted about her first big catering job at a local village funeral… until the day ends with a second body and one of the Old Biddies accused of murder! Now the resourceful tearoom sleuth must find out which delicious pudding contained the deadly arsenic—and who might have wanted the wealthy widow dead…

But Gemma has other troubles to contend with, from her naughty cat, Muesli, running loose in her tearoom to an unexpected hedgehog guest in her home—and that’s before the all-important “meet the parents” dinner with her handsome detective boyfriend turns into a total disaster! With so many things on her plate, can Gemma solve the mystery in time to catch the murderer or will she come to a sticky end?

(Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe at the end of the story!) Books in the Oxford Tearoom Mysteries: All-Butter ShortDead (Prequel) A Scone to Die For (Book 1) Tea with Milk and Murder (Book 2) Two Down, Bun To Go (Book 3) Till Death Do Us Tart (Book 4) Muffins and Mourning Tea (Book 5) Four Puddings and a Funeral (Book 6) Another One Bites the Crust (Book 7) Apple Strudel Alibi (Book 8) ~ more coming soon!

Note: This book follows British English spelling and usage There is a Glossary of British Terms at the end of the story. Author’s Note: The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the U.K. has been purposefully renamed to the fictional Food & Safety Department, in order to allow for more creative licence in the story.

OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHAPTER NINETEEN CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE CHAPTER THIRTY EPILOGUE ANOTHER ONE BITES THE CRUST (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries ~ Book 7) – BLURB Dark, Witch & Creamy (BEWITCHED BY CHOCOLATE Mysteries ~ Book 1) – EXCERPT ABOUT THE AUTHOR GLOSSARY OF BRITISH TERMS STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING RECIPE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OceanofPDF.com CHAPTER ONE Nobody likes going to a funeral—especially when the person being buried isn’t the only dead body.

Of course, I didn’t have an inkling of what was in store as I headed towards the church that Saturday morning. In fact, I was looking forward to the event.

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