Okay story, but I'm in no hurry to find the other books in the series. Quite possibly I'm getting fed up with women coming new into town and immediately hitting it off with a local police officer, who always happens to be single too. While they date, murder after murder happens and the cop tells the woman, repeatedly, not to get involved. Then I'm thinking: why are they dating? Why is this woman seeing someone that tells her what to do and what not to do? And why is this cop continuing to spend time with someone that could cause trouble for them in their work? Possibly even jeopardize the criminal proscution of a murderer?

Or maybe it was just this book, where everyone had love trouble and our sleuth spent as much time wondering about who was the murderer as fretting about whether her cop boyfriend was still her cop boyfriend.

The story is straightforward: obnoxious person gets killed; police suspect everyone that argued with the victim prior to the murder. Apparently, that is called looking at the evidence. I'm never sure whether the cop should be sent back to cop school to relearn the concept of circumstancial evidence and you need a lot of it to make a case, or back to elementary school to relearn how to add up things (argument + walking with scissors does not add up to stabbedy-stab).

I know it's a cozy and therefore doesn't have violence or gore in it. But if the murder victim was stabbed, I expect there to be some blood on the murderer's clothes. It should be mentioned, even if the phrase 'splatter pattern' is too gorey for a cozy. It would have ruled out one or two of the suspects. Unless everyone was wearing very dark clothes.

Callie was an okay character, but I don't think I liked any of the others. At least I didn't like her cop boyfriend Ace. And I didn't much care for his sister either. I didn't believe Iphy as a woman in her seventies. Fifties, sure, seventies, not so much. (Or is seventy the new fifty?)

Once again I am at a loss what the title of the book has to do with the story. No one in the book drank chamomile. The murder victim didn't even drink tea; he was offered coffee. One last gripe: the people who work for Book Tea are called Helpers. Which sounds like they are helping out rather then getting paid to do a job.

I read an ARC through Netgalley.