Murder with Orange Pekoe Tea — Karen Rose Smith

In Pennsylvania's Amish country, Daisy Swanson is serving hot tea at a fundraiser for a homeless shelter -- but tempers are getting heated too...

Daisy's orange pekoe is flowing at a fundraiser -- and she's also made a new friend, Piper, a young woman whose hopes for motherhood were dashed by a foul-up at a fertility clinic. But before they can settle into a long conversation, the event is disupted by masked protestors who object to building a shelter in Willow Creek. Among the angry crowd is Eli -- who left his Amish community some time ago, with help from a lawyer named Hiram.

It just so happens that Hiram is also representing the fertility clinic in a class-action suit -- and soon afterward, he turns up dead, felled by an insulin injection. Daisy can't help but get drawn in, especially since Piper's husband had been pretty steamed at the victim and didn't hide it. She'd love to spend some time with the dog she and her boyfriend have just adopted -- but first she 'll be straining to find a killer...