Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys

The Cape Bay Cafe series is what it is - cozy, quiet, pleasant. Francesca, our amateur detective/cafe owner/ heroine is a sweet and polite and honestly a little over the top in her internal monologues. And some...maybe a lot of what she does is eye-roll worthy. But she's never in your face. And I appreciate that the mystery itself isn't full of padding and misdirections just to add another 50 or 60 pages. I could have done without all the “how to make tea” padding (as a tea drinker, it was ridiculous the amount of babbling Fran did concerning black tea. Just steep it for 3 minutes already. Yet she never mentioned herbals or matcha or chai). I also could have done without the attempted but never quite got all the angles connected love triangle.