Death on the Night of Lost Lizards

Zusatztext Praise for Death on the Night of Lost Lizards "Appealing characters combine seamlessly with a twisty mystery in this pleasing tale of love and hate."--Kirkus Reviews Praise for Death in a Budapest Butterfly "Absorbing and, in parts, genuinely spine-tingling. With this debut, the Hungarian Tea House mystery series has jumped on my list of all-time favorites, and I'm very excited to see where it goes next."--Criminal Element "Hana is a smart and engaging heroine with just the right amount of sass." --Bailey Cates,  New York Times  bestselling author of  Cookies and Clairvoyance "Julia Buckley's delightful new series debut...includes three generations of strong, intelligent women, craving-inducing discussions of food, and a fascinating background of Hungarian culture along with a dandy mystery."--Miranda James,  New York Times  bestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks Mysteries Informationen zum Autor Julia Buckley is the author of the Undercover Dish Mysteries and the Writer's Apprentice Mysteries. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and the Chicago Writer's Association. She has taught high school English for twenty-nine years. Klappentext Hana Keller and her tea-leaf reading grandmother are used to finding the perfect savory treats to pair with a delicious cuppa at her family's tea house but when a local professor is killed, she uncovers a serving of suspects instead… Hana Keller is getting ready for a lovely holiday season. She decides to host a tea at her apartment for her closest friends. During the cozy get-together, one of Hana's friends gets a call that a murderer is on the loose and that the women should be careful. Hana soon learns that Sandor Balog, a professor of Hungarian Studies at the local college, has been viciously killed. Hana gets one of her visions that she is going to be pulled into the professor's death somehow. When Erik, her handsome detective boyfriend, finds several suspects at the Tea House, Hana knows she must now investigate. And when the wrong man is arrested, things come to a boil and Hana finds herself in the path of the real killer. Leseprobe Chapter 1   The Man in the Snow   My grandmother once told me that snow is friendlier than rain.   "Why?" I asked.   "Because rain wants only to soak you and leave you shivering. Snow sits on your shoulder and tells you the truth: that life is cold, but it warms us with beauty."   "And then it soaks you," I added.   "Not if you brush it away. But more than that: snow is magic."   "Why?"   "Because it reminds us of the Land of Dreams."   This struck me as poetic, especially when she assured me that the snow that fell upon her as a girl in BŽkŽscsaba was nothing like the snow that fell upon us in Riverwood today. I had therefore always associated Hungary with surreal and beautiful snows.   The snow falling now, as I trudged down Andrews Street, did hold a touch of magic in that it resembled something inside a glass globe one shakes to create a Christmas scene, but it also had a diagonal quality, and seemed bent upon landing directly on my eyeballs. I reached my car and made haste to stow my packages in the backseat, then ran around to the driver's door, flung it open, and dove in. "Ah," I said. I brushed the "friendly" snow from my shoulders and got the car heater going. Then I leaned back for a moment to study the snowfall.   It did look more dreamlike from a warm, dry place; I marveled at the lacy flakes that sat briefly on my windshield, allowing me to appreciate their perfect symmetry before transforming into moisture and sliding away.   I sighed and closed my eyes for a moment. What magic would this dream snow bring to...

Product details

• Authors: Julia Buckley
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2021
• EAN: 9781984804860
• ISBN: 978-1-984804-86-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 173 mm x 19 mm
• Series: A HUNGARIAN TEA HOUSE MYSTERY
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature