Murder at the Fancy Frills Tea Room

Sit back and enjoy a cup of tea as you read thisChristian murder mystery.

Emily, co-owner of The Fancy Frills Tea Roomand her flamboyant, successful sister, Liz, brewmore than tea in this delightful, humorousmystery.

Emily is the bumbling co-owner of thetea room and the first woman deaconess to beappointed at the Riverbend Community Church.Not everyone is happy about the appointment.

Once more, Emily plays Ethel to Liz’s Lucy andthe sisters are involved in the discovery of adead body in a deserted mansion. Then, when asecond body is found, and it turns out to besomeone Emily knows very well, she becomes aprime suspect.

The only man in her life is Arthur, thesophisticated, flirtatious owner of the antiqueshop next to the Fancy Frills Tea Room.While she longs for romance she shuns thismarried man’s advances.

When Liz matches her up with a handsome,
mysterious man it seemed like answered prayer,
until an older, rich newcomer arrives and she finds
herself attracted to both, but could one be thekiller?

Will clumsy Emily trip andfall into the arms
of the wrong man?

Maxine Holmgren is a Christian author, playwright and entrepreneur. She lives in Southern California with her husband, who is an avid golfer and golf instructor. She is grateful to the Lord for giving her the talent and skill to write. She has used this gift to combine her passion for tea, mysteries, and acting by writing short stories, party plans, plays and now, a Christian mystery novel. Writing mystery tea party plans for friends was the natural outlet for her talents. This soon led to an internet business. Her humorous mystery party plans are sold nationally, and even internationally, at www.mysteryteaparties.com . Maxine enjoys public speaking and does presentations to women’s groups, about the health benefits of tea. She also belongs to an amateur theatre group where she enjoys acting and directing. In addition to the seventeen mystery tea party plans, she has also written four one act comedies that have been published and are listed in the Samuel French Catalogue of Plays. She says, ＂I like to include as much humor as possible, when I write. I think we all need more laughter in our lives. ’A merry heart doeth good, like a medicine.’ (Prov.17:22)＂