Patrice Greenwood Livres

Is this a good idea, or will it be a catastrophe? A question Ellen Rosings can apply to multiple areas of her life. Revising the Wisteria Tearoom's inner spaces and advancing her investigation into Captain Dusenberry's murder are only a couple of the stops along the way as Ellen contemplates big life changes ahead. She and Tony are looking for a place where they can live together-but complications arise in the form of an unexpected visitor to the tearoom. Will Ellen lose her heart...again?

Yuletide in Santa Fe: biscochitos, farolitos, Las Posadas, music...and murder. Ellen Rosings does not have time for murder investigations. It's December, and the Wisteria Tearoom is awash in shoppers, cookies, and groups of strange women brought to tea by the eccentric Bird Woman. Alas, Ellen must cope with murder anyway. One of her high school classmates is stabbed to death, and she and her best friend Gina can't resist the puzzle. Handsome Tony Aragon is on the case, and Ellen is only too happy to assist, but when a second classmate of Ellen's turns up dead, Tony's protective instinct kicks in. Much as Ellen agrees, she can't stay in a cocoon-she's got a business to run. Is the fact that the victim has recently been to the tearoom merely a coincidence? Could Tony's gratifying concern for Ellen's safety inspire him to become her personal bodyguard? And what on earth should she get him for Christmas?

Ellen Rosings's life is in upheaval. She's moving, the Wisteria Tearoom's are shifting around like a Chinese puzzle, and her search for the perfect wedding venue is proving to be a struggle. Should she settle for less than her dreams?

Goths reenacting Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" on Halloween night...what could possibly go wrong? Despite her desire to make the Wisteria Tearoom a haven of tranquility, Ellen Rosings can't rid her parlors of the shadow of death. Fascinated with the tearoom's resident ghost, her customers flock to spirit-tours-with-tea, and to crown all, the office manager and her Goth friends plan a Halloween masquerade recreating a classic horror story. Between his heavy workload and his fits of jealousy when Ellen looks at anything male, Detective Tony Arag n can't offer her much comfort. Are the flashes of light she's been seeing some kind of message from the spirit world? Or is it just coincidence when a body turns up where she last saw a gleam? This cozy mystery is the fifth in the Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries series.

The death of Gabriel Rhodes on Halloween night sent a shock through the Santa Fe Goth community. Three months later, the fallout continues. Ellen Rosings is too busy for dead bodies. With a wedding to plan, a move to organize, and business at the Wisteria Tearoom ramping up for Valentine's Day, the last thing she needs is another corpse to deal with. She is far more interested in solving the murder of Captain Dusenberry over a hundred years ago than in finding fresh victims. Alas, her plans are doomed to disruption. A body appears, and this time not only is it someone she knew...the evidence points to a member of the tearoom's staff. This cozy mystery is the eighth in the Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries series.