The Grim Steeper: A Teapot Collector Mystery - Plot & Excerpts
She behaved herself, and only spent a few hours working in the tearoom each afternoon. But Friday had been especially busy, so Sophie sent her grandmother upstairs to rest and Laverne home to look after her nonagenarian father. She shared leftover soup with her grandmother for dinner, then nipped back downstairs to set up the tearoom for the last Silver Spouts meeting—the Spouts was Nana’s teapot collecting group—before the Fall Fling tea stroll on Sunday. The tearoom was kept mostly spotless by Laverne and Sophie, with a little heavy-duty cleaning help once every couple of weeks from a local woman, for a reasonable fee. But to Sophie, the tearoom was showing its age. The carpeting was worn in spots, and even the rose toile wallpaper, above white wainscoting, looked tired. The tiny shop off the tearoom proper was still fine; it held all the wares that Auntie Rose’s sold, from Fitz and Floyd teapots to Grace’s Teaware’s pretty teacups and saucers, as well as books on tea, tea-scented candles, children’s tea sets, “tea”
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