Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, volume 1) by Rebecca Thorne

[james_davis_nicoll]

An underappreciated bodyguard casts her current career aside in favour of romance and small-town entrepreneurship, thus earning the incandescent fury of her absolute monarch ex-boss.

Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea  (Tomes & Tea, volume 1) by Rebecca Thorne 

Comments

[scott_sanford]

You were exactly correct; my first thought when seeing this cover was to check if it were another volume in the Legends & Lattes story.

As for bookstores and angry vengeance seeking queens, I imagine many people are aware that there also exists Bookshops & Bonedust, another book by Travis Baldree.

I feel it may be unfair to Rebecca Thorne for me to compare her work to Baldree's... but I'm only now discovering that it exists and the comparison is already done.

[mecurtin]

hold on hold on hold on -- the books they're selling aren't *printed*?!?!! The cover image would be of a famous library, before print. Each book is approximately the value of a *car*.

Ann Swinfen's The Bookseller's Tale and others in her series of Oxford medieval mysteries give a good idea of what pre-print bookselling involved. There were very few locations it was feasible, a bookseller also ran a scriptorium, and you couldn't afford to have much in the way of stock because each small volume took so much time to make.

My disbelief can't be suspended for this one, it's flown out the window like a dandelion puff.