It's

Cozy Food Friday!

That means it's time to share a recipe from 

another great cozy mystery!

This week I have picked

LIVE AND LET CHIA

Book 1 in the Seaside Café Mysteries

by Bree Baker

The first book in a delightful new beachside cozy mystery series!

Trouble is brewing in Everly's new café. Can she bag the culprit?

Life hasn't been so sweet for Everly Swan over the past couple of years, but now that she is back in her seaside hometown and the proud owner of a little iced tea shop and café right on the beach, things are finally starting to look up―until a curmudgeonly customer turns up dead on the boardwalk. With one of her hallmark glass tea jars lying right next to him and an autopsy that reports poison in his system, it doesn't look good for Everly or her brand new business.

As the townspeople of Charm, formerly so welcoming and homey, turn their back on Everly, she fights to dig up clues about who could have had it in for the former town councilman. With a maddeningly handsome detective discouraging her from uncovering leads and a series of anonymous attacks on Everly and her business, it will take everything she's got to keep this mystery from boiling over.

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SUMMER STRAWBERRY AND PEACH TEA

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Your finished dish will vary in appearance.

Nothing compliments a hot summer day like this Swan Family Favorite,

so dive in and enjoy!

Ingredients

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Yields: 18 servings

10 cups cold water, divided

1 cup strawberry preserves

8 herbal peach tea bags

12 fresh strawberries, cored and sliced 

Ice

Directions

   Using a medium saucepan, add 4 cups of water, strawberry preserves, and peach tea bags and bring to a boil. 

   Remove from heat, and steep 15 minutes.

   Pour in remaining 6 cups of cold water. Remove tea bags and let cool completely. Then, add strawberry slices, and stir. 

   Refrigerate until ready to serve. 

   Pour over ice.  

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Can you imagine how refreshing this would be?

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Please keep reading to check out my 

installments of 

Book Beginnings on Fridays

and

The Friday 56

Both the BB and 56 are from

LIVE AND LET CHAI

Book Beginnings on Fridays is a meme hosted by Rose City Reader

Share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading.

The Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda's Voice

Rules: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that's okay.) *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grab you. *Post it.

My Book Beginnings

"Welcome to Sun, Sand, and Tea." I perked up at the precious sound of the seashell wind chimes bouncing and tinkling against the front door of my new café. "I'll be right with you."

My 56

I'd had about enough of that.

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