A Brew Most Foul - H. C. Cardona

A Brew Most Foul

By H. C. Cardona

  • Release Date: 2025-01-13
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
4
From 91 Ratings

Description

When Peyton Hart returns to the quaint town of Wallshire, she hopes to reconnect with her estranged mother and maybe even find her place in the world. 

Instead, she's thrust into a nightmare when Katarina, the enigmatic owner of the tea shop Steeped in Mysteary, is found dead—poisoned by her own brew. 

To make matters worse, Peyton becomes the prime suspect in the investigation. 

With the sharp-eyed Detective Levi Kessler questioning her every move and the town buzzing with gossip, Peyton finds herself caught in a web of secrets she never knew her mother was hiding.

Determined to clear her name and uncover the truth, Peyton dives headfirst into Wallshire's quirky community, where everyone seems to have something to hide. 

From cryptic notes in the tea shop to rivalries that run deeper than the finest Darjeeling, Peyton must navigate a blend of danger and charm to piece together the mystery. 

A Brew Most Foul is a heartwarming and suspenseful cozy mystery that invites readers to savor every clue—and every cup of tea—while rooting for a heroine who's learning to trust herself, one steep at a time.
 

Reviews

  • This cannot be a human being

    1
    By RGfanatic
    Insane and repetitive, it's as though someone instructed a robot to "make every sentence as descriptive as possible. No, every sentence. Every SINGLE SENTENCE" After dragging myself through this awful story for several hundred pages, 😄 I skipped to the end to find the killer. I see that I was not alone in this. "The station hummed with the undercurrent of muffled conversations and ringing phones, a cacophony that seemed to part like the Red Sea". I didn't shop for that example, it’s simply the page where I gave up. This sort of overly flowery prose is amusing for a few minutes, but surely, SURELY, no human could keep this up for an entire story. 😐
  • About Smiles…

    2
    By midlotam
    I didn’t want to read one more time about a “smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes,” but I scanned to the end to see how the murderer was revealed. The cliché was so abundant and so obvious (at least three times in just the first section, and nine or ten times in all) that I wonder if any of the author’s friends did a beta-reading or if her editor had any standards. The language throughout is overwrought; way too much time and improbable description is spent on the heroine’s emotions. Note to author: It is not realistic to think that the uptight, neatness-obsessed detective — dare one say OCD these days? — is going to unbend and be able to change his long-time adult behavior, as much as you seem to be setting that up for a future novel! But then again, this is fiction.
  • Choppy

    2
    By Bzzzzzzzzzzzxxxxxxx
    Interesting story and great backstory. However overuse of descriptions and out of order phrases and actions detract. A good editor would have really helped.
  • Interesting but not outstanding. LUsed to many repeated phrases.

    3
    By Live for books
    One was used at least 5 times.
  • Boring

    1
    By slapstickgum
    I couldn't get thru this book. It was ridiculous really, sexist detective, immature woman and dialogue that was repetitive. "A smile that didn't reach the eyes" ... how many times was that repeated? I really was hoping it would be a good read but sadly, no.