The Long Island Iced Tea Goodbye
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"You'll have to come up with something, gal," Josephine murmured. "And we'll serve them to celebrate the reopening of the café."
Heather's lips curved up.
Was this the first sign of Josephine agreeing to her new vision for the business?
"And I'll be happy to test them for you, but only when I’m off duty," James added.
Heather raised a can of soda. She felt an urge to mark this moment, as her intuition was telling her it was a start of something great.
"To many happy moments like this one," she said.
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The Name of The Rose Water Spritzer - Career Crisis Café Mystery 2
The Name of The Rose Water Spritzer - Career Crisis Café Mystery 2
Heather and Josephine are preparing for a garden party: just a few local friends, Josephine’s finger food, Heather’s cocktails, and a little gossip. The party is ruined by rain, but there is something much more sinister happening by the new beach huts… And when the next morning Heather finds a dead body in one of the huts, investigation begins.
Who killed Rose Waters? Was there poison on her fingertips? And why is Josephine behaving so strangely?
To find out if Heather, Josephine and James discover what really happened, grab a copy now.
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Thank you for reading The Long Island Iced Tea Goodbye. I hope you enjoyed Heather’s first New Zealand adventure and the foray into murder mystery investigations.
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Career Crisis Café Mystery series
The Long Island Iced Tea Goodbye - Career Crisis Café Mystery 1
The Long Island Iced Tea Goodbye - Career Crisis Café Mystery Book 1
Heather Hampton, a middle-aged, freshly divorced fashion journalist from Long Island, arrives in Dolphin Cove, New Zealand to start a new life as a beach café owner and a cocktail maker extraordinaire, not to battle a grumpy live-in chef-cum-baker, rescue feral kittens and find bodies and skeletons in cupboards. But when she is accused of poisoning her chef, she has no choice, but to get involved and find out what really happened.
With the help, and sometimes against, a semi-retired police officer and a rescue kitten, Heather discovers a few secrets, makes a couple of friends and almost ends up on a date.
But, more importantly, will she guess who the murderer is? Can you beat her to it?
Grab a copy of The Long Island Iced Tea Goodbye to find out
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The Name of The Rose Water Spritzer - Career Crisis Café Mystery 2
The Name of The Rose Water Spritzer - Career Crisis Café Mystery 2
Heather and Josephine are preparing for a garden party: just a few local friends, Josephine’s finger food, Heather’s cocktails, and a little gossip. The party is ruined by rain, but there is something much more sinister happening by the new beach huts… And when the next morning Heather finds a dead body in one of the huts, the investigation begins.
Who killed Rose Waters? Was there poison on her fingertips? And why is Josephine behaving so strangely?
To find out if Heather, Josephine and James discover what really happened, grab a copy now.
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To Kill the Jungle Bird - Career Crisis Café Mystery 3
To Kill the Jungle Bird - Career Crisis Café Mystery Book 3
Heather Hampton, a beach café owner and mixologist extraordinaire gets entangled in yet another murder mystery.
Her friend and employee, Chrissy, flees a violent argument with her ex, only to discover the next morning that he's been stabbed and the murder weapon is in Chrissy's car. Did Chrissy kill her ex-partner? If not her, then who?
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Also by Emily Selby
The Name of the Rose Water Spritzer
Career Crisis Café Book 2
Heather and Josephine are preparing for a garden party: just a few local friends, Josephine’s finger food, Heather’s cocktails, and a little gossip. The party is ruined by rain, but there is something much more sinister happening by the new beach huts… And when the next morning Heather find a dead body in one of the huts, investigation begins.
Who killed Rose Waters? Was there poison on her fingertips? And why is Josephine behaving so strangely?
To find out if Heather, Josephine and James discover what really happened, click to pre-order now!
Recipe: Feijoa and Ginger Scones
Remember those mouth-watering, unpronounceable scones Josephine baked to welcome Heather to the café, Dolphin Cove and New Zealand?
Would you like to try?
Here is a recipe, adapted from Foodlove.co.nz.
Feijoas grow abundantly in New Zealand, but you can also find them in other countries (subtropical). The fruit is the size and shape of an egg, has thick, green skin, which is edible, but usually we eat just the soft, sweet-and-tangy flesh, scooped. I love this little gritty bits!
Feijoas are my second favourite fruit (after strawberries).
If you can’t find fresh fruit, try jam. You may need to reduce the amount of sugar in this case.
Speaking of substitutions: you can use lemonade instead of buttermilk (I prefer buttermilk).
By the way, I always reduce the amount of sugar in New Zealand recipes, they tend to be too sweet for my taste. And, it’s easier to add sugar, even if it’s icing, but once it’s too much, you can’t undo it :)
Enjoy responsibly :-)
FEIJOA & GINGER SCONES
Ingredients
•2 cups self-raising flour
•1 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
•1 teaspoon baking powder
•1/4 cup sugar
•50 gram butter
•3/4 cup buttermilk (or lemonade)
▪1 cup chopped or scooped feijoas flesh (or the same amount of feijoa jam, but consider reducing the amount of sugar in this case)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 210°C (410F).
Mix dry ingredients to combine.
Rub butter into fine crumbs
Add feijoas/feijoa jam and buttermilk/lemonade to the dry mix. Stir to combine.
Knead just enough to bring dough into a ball.
Roll on a floured board to 1.5cm thick. Cut into rounds; place on a cold, floured tray.
Bake for 15-20 minutes until cooked.
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Enjoy with whipped cream or feijoa jam, or both :)