Loving Spirits at the Vintage Teashop
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley June 25, 2025
Author Sharon Booth
Distributor: Amazon
ISBN: 978-1836567608
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Release Date: 25 June 2025
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Loving Spirits at the Vintage Teashop is book 2 in the very quirky series Ghosts of Rowan Vale where Aunt Polly, along with her modern family live, and have done so for many generations.
Rowan Vale is a beautiful tourist village which has been carefully restored to days of yesteryear, where people can come to sample the past through the many shops that grace the township; Shona Bannerman is the manager of the Vintage Teashop which has been managed by her family for more than eighty years.
The difference with Rowan Vale is it has a village full of Ghosts who live there and have done so for many years, some for centuries. The new owner of the Village, Callie Chase has a gift that allows her to see and talk with all the Ghosts in residence, whereas others can see some or none at all.
Callie comes up with the idea to have a theme weekend set during the War years which while agreed to by the current day villagers, is met with scepticism from the ghostly residents, but the decision to proceed is accepted by all, eventually.
Aunt Polly is a very popular figure around the town, having passed away in 1948, she was murdered, thinks it is a great idea and when Shona Bannerman nee Deakin, her niece asks if it will distress her, she says it will not. The murderer was never caught and if Aunt Polly knew who it was, she has carefully locked that memory away, not to be disturb at any cost.
When a stranger comes to town asking questions about the men held there as Prisoners of War a change begins to take place within the close-knit Deakin family and other members of the community.
Max is good looking, well dressed and in some distress about what he perceived happened to his beloved grandfather while he worked in Rowan Vale. He and Shona meet, and she finds there seems to be some sort of attraction between them, which she finds surprising as she has no inclination at all to invite another man into her life after the shattering end to her marriage.
As the past starts to give up its secrets, a decision must be made as to how much of the past should be revealed and how much harm it will do to the living with the retelling of crime committed more than seventy years ago.
Entertaining and most enjoyable Loving Spirits at the Vintage Teashop is the prefect excuse to spend the afternoon on the couch reveling in a well written, cozy mystery which will keep you guessing