The Perfect Blend

The Fairway Players are rehearsing their Christmas pantomime- jack and the Beanstalk for a church roof fundraiser. What unfolds is a murder mystery told through texts, emails and messages.

Janice Hallett

Shelly’s tea: Tea and Spice Exchange Chocolate Candy Cane

Candy’s tea: DavidsTea Gingerbread Matcha (no longer available:/)

Best Christmas Pageant 2024

Best Christmas Pageant Ever 1983

The Worst/Best Christmas Pageant Ever (book)

Two mystery writers are invited to an English manor for Christmas by a reclusive fan.

Ally Carter

Shelly's Tea: Silent Night DavidsTea

Candy's Tea: Secret Santa DavidsTea

An interesting novel about love, family, and relationships.

Sally Rooney

Shelly's tea: Curly Wurley Southern Virginia Tea Company (Quintin's Tea Emporium)

Candy's tea: Ginger Honey Bigelow Tea

June Farrow is determined to break the Farrow woman curse. What she believes is generational madness is actually something much more.

Shelly's tea: Cranberry Pecan Scone Southern Virginia Tea Company

Candy's tea: Grannie's Garden Tea Thyme Refined

The Unmaking of June Farrow Book Club Kit

Kate has lost her job, broke her engagement off and decides to move from Manhattan to Coral Cay, Florida. Desperate for a job, she lucks out at the Cookie House. Unfortunately, her new boss is soon accused of murder and she must do what she can to prove his innocence and keep the bakery open.

Shelly's tea: India Spice Chai Keurig Commercial

Candy's tea: Rooibos Cinnamon Roll Adagio Tea

Billy Summers has one last job to do before he retires. He is an assassin who only kills the bad guys and this last job is a challenge.

Stephen King

Shelly's tea: Earl Grey Supreme Harney & Sons

Candy's tea: Adagio tea Campfire S'Mores

Saffron Everleigh is a research assistant to Dr. Maxwell at the University College London. It's 1923 and as she navigates being a woman on the staff of a male dominated department, she is also is compelled to prove her professor innocent of an accused poisoning.

Kate Khavari

Shelly's tea: PlumDeluxe  Smooth Sailing Mango Tea

Candy's tea: Adagio Teas Pumpkin Potion

Steepsters site

The mysterious woman in Doc Martin boots just wanted Gobbelino and Callum to retrieve her book. She doesn't know Gobbelino is a talking cat and that Callum is his human sidekick. The two PIs don't realize it's not an ordinary book they are sent to get. The gumshoes have to race to contain magical destruction of things that are ...nice.

Kim M. Watt

Shelly's tea: Full Leaf Tea's Organic Orange Cinnamon Spice Tea

Candy's tea: Adagio Tea's Cat Scratch

Isabella is a miserable village woman who happened upon a spellbook her miserable husband took from a wizard. All sorts of mysterious magical things begin happening on top of an influx of goblins bearing "bapples". An unlikely entrepreneur decides to take advantage of all the goblin fruit and creates a ponzi scheme. Oh, and there is a pot of basil that talks...

Shelly's tea: Tiesta Tea Fruity Paradise

Candy's tea: Plum Deluxe Oolong Crystal Clarity mixed with Adagio Tea's Candy Apple

Classics Go to the Decameron

Isabella and the Pot of Basil poster

Set in New York City, The Cloisters follows Ann Stilwell, a young graduate beginning an internship at the Met during the summer. She begins researching Renaissance divination and she has to navigate all manner of intrigue, power plays and a murder.

Is it choice or fate that truly controls our life? Read Katy Hay's book and see what you think.

Shelly and Candy's tea: Adagio Tea's The Cloistea

The Met Cloisters

The Spectrum of Desire exhibit