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A Steep Price to Pay: A Cozy Mystery in the Cotswolds
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 26 2026
Pages: 644
Weight: 1.62
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
someone just made it deadly.
Former London food journalist Clementine Clem Ashby
came to the picturesque Cotswold village of
Thornwick-on-Wye to sell her great-aunt's tea room
and leave her disastrous city life behind. Two years later,
named Earl Grey at her feet, and a life she's finally
beginning to love.
Then Reginald Finch-Hatton arrives.
The country's most celebrated - and most feared - antique
appraiser has been invited to headline the
Thornwick Flower Festival, and within a single
afternoon he manages to publicly humiliate half the village.
By the time The Gilded Spoon Tea Room closes its doors,
there isn't a soul in Thornwick who doesn't have a reason
to despise him.
The next morning, he's found dead in Clem's back room.
Poisoned - possibly by his tea.
Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Drummond would very
much like Clem to step back and let the professionals
handle it. Clem would very much like to not be charged
with murder. And Earl Grey, philosophically untroubled
by the whole affair, would very much like his breakfast.
With the Flower Festival in full swing, the village
crawling with suspects, and her tea room taped off as a
crime scene, Clem has no choice but to do what any
sensible former investigative journalist would do:
make a fresh pot of tea, open her notebook,
and start asking questions.
But in Thornwick-on-Wye, some secrets are steeped
very, very deep.
Perfect for fans of Richard Osman,
Alexander McCall Smith, and M.C. Beaton.
The cosiest, most atmospheric mystery
I've read in years.
Earl Grey the cat ALONE is worth the price
of this book.
A Steep Price to Pay:
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith - Hamish Macbeth Mysteries by M.C. Beaton
- Agatha Raisin series by M.C. Beaton
- A Vicar's Guide to Murder by Rebecca Tope
- Cotswold Mysteries by Rebecca Tope
A Steep Price to Pay is the first book in the
Thornwick-on-Wye Mysteries series - a charming,
witty, slow-burn cozy mystery series set in a
fictional Cotswold village full of secrets,
tea, and one very intelligent cat.
Perfect for: cozy mystery lovers,
British mystery fans, Cotswold fiction readers,
tea lovers, cat lovers, village mystery enthusiasts.
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