A Deadly Detour to Kyoto: Cozy Mystery Novella

A locked tea room. A master dead mid-ceremony. And a four-hundred-year-old bowl that may be a beautiful lie.After the sensory avalanche of Marrakech, Kyoto is an exhale - stone lanes in Higashiyama, the hush of the Seiryū-an tea school, and the slow, exact choreography of the way of tea. Wren Ashby came to write about the gentlest place she'd ever visited. Then a master of the ceremony dies inside a room no one could have entered.A patient inspector arrives, and with him a question about the school's most treasured tea bowl - the kind of question worth a fortune, or a life. With Fig surveying it all from his carrier, Wren reads the spaces between the words to find what all that perfect composure was covering up.For readers who like their mysteries serene, their clues hidden in plain ritual, and their sleuths accompanied by a very small connoisseur.A Deadly Detour to Kyoto is Book 6 of the Deadly Detour cozy mysteries - a new city and a complete case every time. Read them in any order.