Sunny Meadows left her life in New York in order to escape the impossible expectations of her powerhouse attorney mother and her world renowned surgeon father. Sunny had no interest in following in either of parent's footsteps. Sunny found her calling, she was a psychic. Sunny shocks her parents by announcing that she is leaving the hustle and bustle of New York for the quiet town of Divinity. After arriving, Sunny feels right at home in the quaint little town. Her new home, a much talked about haunted Victorian home, comes complete with a new pet, a cat Sunny calls Morty. Morty is usually described as creepy by the residents of Divinity, but to Sunny he is as perfect as her new haunted Victorian she calls Vicky.

Sunny finds that Vicky is the perfect place for her new business as a psychic, but her first customer gets a killer reading! When Sunny's first customer frantically demands a reading, Sunny reads her tea leaves and discovers librarian Amanda Robbins has plenty to be frantic about because the tea leaves indicate she will be murdered by a man she knows. Sunny takes her psychic prediction to Detective Mitch Stone who mocks Sunny's supposed vision. But when Amanda Robbins is found dead, Mitch Stone believes Sunny is the murderer.

Detective Stone and Sunny are both equally stunned and annoyed when they are ordered to work together to solve the murder of Amanda Robbins. Sunny can't stand the detective's closed mind to anything paranormal, and the detective thinks Sunny is a whack job. Although Sunny dreads more of Stone's mocking comments about her psychic abilities, she knows this is her only chance to clear her name. The evidence pointing to Sunny is unmistakable. Amanda Robbins was poisoned, and the poison was found in the cup Sunny used for her reading.

Detective Stone has trouble picturing Sunny as a murderer, but the tough cop will not by swayed by a pretty face that he is having trouble getting out of his mind. Working together, Sunny and Mitch discover that more than one person had a bone to pick with the town librarian.

You have to be psychic to guess the identity of the killer in this hit debut novel. Amanda Robbins' murder is a mystery begging to be solved. But readers will have plenty to keep them entertained as Mitch and Sunny track the killer. Sunny and Mitch's hilariously angsty attraction will keep you laughing. Kari Lee Townsend has pulled out all the stops for this fabulous new series! I look forward to plenty more novels by this gifted writer. TEMPEST IN THE TEA LEAVES is a murder mystery to die for!

Book Summary

An Agatha and RT Reviewer’s Choice Award Nominee!”

In the fortune telling business there are a lot of pretenders, but Sunshine Meadows is the real deal—and her predictions can be lethally accurate…

Leaving the Big Apple for the quaint town of Divinity, New York, Sunny is determined to make it on her own as a psychic. With an ancient Victorian house as her place of business, Sunny uses various psychic methods to aid the town’s residents. But when she uses tea leaves to give a reading for a frazzled librarian, what she finds at the bottom of the cup is anything but helpful. Sunny informs the police of her deadly vision, but her warning is too late. And with hard-nosed, ruggedly handsome Detective Mitch Stone denying her abilities and naming her prime suspect, the situation is dire. Now Sunny has to use her visions to clear her name, before the killer can put an end to the psychic’s

*Nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel

*Nominated for an RT Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Amateur Sleuth