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A Honeymoon of Havoc

Cafe owner Keya Varma is overjoyed to escape the Cotswold winter for tropical sunshine, but the morning after her surprise beach wedding she finds a body on the sand and is arrested for murder.

A quiet ceremony beside the Indian Ocean seemed the perfect start to Keya’s married life, until a valuable sapphire is reported missing and its owner is found dead. When a friendly young hotel worker is blamed for the theft, Keya is determined to navigate the island’s bureaucracy, clear the young woman’s name and discover what really happened.

With her calm, capable husband lending his forensic expertise, can Keya discover how the man died, recover the sapphire and prove that justice, like love, is worth pursuing?

Pack your suitcase and join Keya for A Honeymoon of Havoc today!

A Honeymoon of Havoc, the fourth book in Victoria Tait’s Cotswold Antique Mystery series, is a clean, feel-good armchair travel cozy mystery set in Sri Lanka. This fair-play mystery features a closed-circle hotel setting, a missing sapphire, a surprise beach wedding, newlywed sleuths, gentle humour, eccentric characters and clues to follow alongside Keya. The mystery is fully resolved with no cliffhanger. Perfect for readers who enjoy Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery and Evil Under the Sun, and viewers who love Death in Paradise and Murder, She Wrote.

What readers say

The mystery was a puzzler, and there were red herrings throughout. The pacing moves along quickly, as the clues stack up...This is armchair travel at its finest and a one sitting read for this book lover.

Another charming and engaging mystery from Victoria Tait. I felt that I was traveling along with Keya and Sujin through Sri Lanka. The vivid descriptions of the sights and sounds, as well as the foods, made the island come alive. The history of Sri Lanka was woven into the fabric of the story with the sacred sites, the plight of the miners, the effects of colonization, and the family dynamics adding depth.

— Kathy

A great logical, cozy mystery. There are lots of red herrings, real clues and eccentric suspects. A new setting for me and I found it interesting to read about the food and the sights of Sri Lanka.

— Goodreads reviewer

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