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Caitlyn is enjoying her first autumn in England with her newfound family but the peace is shattered when a mysterious woman claiming to be a witch arrives in the village. And when she stumbles on a savage murder, Caitlyn discovers that the centuries-old tradition of witch-hunting is still very much alive. But with some sleuthing spells and a bit of chocolate magic (not to mention help from her toothless vampire uncle!) – she just might find the killer – and the truth about her past too…

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The Oxford Tearoom Mysteries - Book 10

Join your favourite tearoom sleuth, her little tabby cat and the four meddling ‘Old Biddies’ in this hilarious festive whodunnit! Gemma is looking forward to a holiday filled with delicious Yuletide treats, time with friends and family, and maybe even a “white Christmas” in Oxford… But when she’s snowed in at a country manor, she finds herself embroiled in a puzzling murder… Come and enjoy a traditional British Christmas… and see if you can solve the case before she does!

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Meet the real-life inspiration for the feline star of the Oxford Tearoom Mysteries…

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H.Y. Hanna - Author

1 month ago

SALE! Just $0.99 for 1 week only - don't miss out! https://www.amzn.com/dp/B01E1RRX66/ "I tore through this delicious little mystery so fast that my Kindle is still smoking!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A sinister phone call in the middle of the night throws tearoom sleuth, Gemma Rose, straight into a new murder - featuring a mysterious killing in the cloisters of an old Oxford college. The investigation points to scandals and feuds within the University, but Gemma finds unexpected clues popping up in her little Cotswolds village as she sets out to solve the mystery with the help of her mischievous tabby cat, Muesli. Meanwhile, her quaint English tearoom is in trouble, with kitchen explosions galore and a missing pastry chef... and her love life is in turmoil as she struggles to decide between the dashing Dr Lincoln Green and her old college flame, sexy CID detective Devlin O'Connor. Add an exasperating mother driving her as nutty as a fruitcake and the nosy Old Biddies meddling at every turn... can Gemma solve the mystery and save her best friend from a life behind bars?
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You are amazing and have given thousands of hours of fun to so many!

in German please. Love your book 😊

Thank you!

Loved it. ❤

An author to love!!!

Love this series

I've listened to the whole series on Audible. After a few biographies/autobiographies, I'm going to start another series. Perhaps Bewitched by Chocolate. :)

I love your book covers. I plan on reading all your Kitty Cat books! Bravo!!! 😻😻😻

Would love to order one of these books ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Love this series!!

Got it and have started reading it!

I really enjoyed all h.y. Hanna books. I've been looking for more. To read with my Kindle unlimited

Love this series

Love this series!!!

Have listened to ALL her books on audible. So enjoyable.

I read all 10 they are the best books. If they come to books a million. I'm buying all so I can read and have the books at my house

I have all of these from audible. I love them!

Thank you. Just ordered.

It sounds intriguing! 💗

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H.Y. Hanna - Author

1 month ago

Home Sweet Home! After a harrowing journey through eerily deserted airports, it's lovely to be back home in Perth. :-) Here's a view from the plane window, showing the Swan River which runs through the city, plus the (few!) skyscrapers of downtown Perth just visible on the horizon, left. And these cute little marsupials are quokkas - one of the most adorable animals you'll ever meet! They're only found on small islands off the coast of Western Australia and because there are no natural predators, are completely fearless. They will even pose for selfies with you! :D They've become famous as "the world's happiest animal" as they always look like they're smiling. If you ever have the chance to come to Perth, make sure you visit Rottnest Island to see them! :-) ... See MoreSee Less

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Welcome home 😊

Home sweet home🥰

Welcome home!

Welcome home, so glad your Mum has recovered.

Welcome home xx

Glad that you are home and that your mum is on the mend. Queen Street is eerily quiet also. So many small businesses are suffering. Please God this passes soon.

Must be such a relief that all is well. Welcome home🏡❤️

Welcome back to your home, so pleased your mum is recovering so well🌷

Home Sweet Home 😘

Welcome home!

So happy you are home.

Welcome home! So happy that your mother's recovery is coming along nicely.

Welcome home, and welcome back to your husband, Muesli, and garden! So glad your mother is recovering well. 💐

So glad you’re safely home and that your mom is doing well!

So glad you’ve made it home safely & your mom is feeling better.

Welcome home!

Glad you were able to get home. Don't know about your area of the globe, but so many of the flights to/from the U.S. have been cancelled!

Welcome home!!

So cute!

I visited the Quokka when I was there, they are adorable! One even came up and gave my friend a kiss

Glad you are home!

Welcome home Dear 👌❤️

Adorable❤️

Glad you are home and that your mom is doing well!

Glad you are safe home safe. Time for snuggle with Muesli.

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H.Y. Hanna - Author

1 month ago

My mother wants to say a special thank you to all my readers & friends for your lovely messages of support & concern. She is sure that her good recovery is due to all your thoughts & prayers! :-) ... See MoreSee Less

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Mums are truly special!!! So glad she’s doing better! 💜

So glad she is healing well❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

It’s so nice to see your Mom looking good & doing well with the PT. Keep up the hard work.

Glad she doing better

So good to hear your Mum is doing well.

Hope she continues to do well. 💕

Such good news!!! Glad your mom is doing well.

Please tell her, she is such a wonderful lady to have brought up such a special daughter.

I'm very happy to see her looking so cheerful. You can tell she is feeling better. <3

I am glad to hear her recovery is going so well

Best wishes to continue to feel better.💗 Two lovely ladies.😁🌿🌷🌷🌿

Pleased to see your Mum looking so cheerful. Best wishes for a speedy recovery 🌸🌹💐

Glad she’s doing well

Continued prayers for recovery...

So happy to see her smiling ❤️

I'm so glad she's doing better. My 91-year-old mother was in a rehab hospital for 2 weeks and still isn't strong enough to go back home, so she's staying with my brother for now. I hope she improves as well.

Keeping the prayers coming! Stay strong!

Oh, great! Your mother is looking great! What a beautiful smile!

You both look great.

She is so adorable. ❤️

I’m glad that her recovery is doing well and your a very good lady and daughter to be helping your mom my mom is 85 and I had a scare myself she fell last Thursday and broke a bone in her right hand and we found out she has a weak heart so I’m trying to be the best daughter I can be and helping my Mom as well she’s the only parent I have left !!!! And she’s very special !!! Just like all mothers so I’m again happy to see your mom doing so well !!!

Great to see your mum in good spirits!!!

So happy to hear that she is doing well!

You both look wonderful!

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H.Y. Hanna - Author

1 month ago

Are there any UK rose gardeners here? Can you help with a book research question, please? I want to feature a very thorny rose shrub in my latest English Cottage Garden mystery - I was hoping to use 'Rosa multiflora' but I'm confused because of conflicting descriptions on US vs UK sites: American references say this rose is notorious for having lots of vicious thorns but English sites don't mention this - in fact, some say it's " almost thornless"! Can the same rose be so different across the pond?? Can anyone confirm if Rosa multiflora IS very thorny in the UK?
If it's not, are there any other really prickly candidates you would suggest? (I was thinking of the rambler, Rosa 'Mermaid' as an alternative. Apparently, it has barbed thorns and is a pruning hazard...!)
*I know most roses are fairly prickly but I want one with vicious barbs that can do serious damage! ;-) )
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Here is a thread I found regarding roses with vicious bloodletters. I don't know how much help it will be, though. www.houzz.com/discussions/1665875/roses-that-have-claws-perle-glamis-stanwell

A lot of the Old/vintage varieties (especially the David Austin ones) have sliced and diced me over the years! 🔪🥀 Just google Heritage roses and you'll find heaps.

Alot of the elegant new roses have the thorns breed out of them, so you need to go for an old variety. The thorniest rose in my garden is actually a dog rose but I'm pretty sure that's not what you are going for!

I know nothing about roses but my green-gingered husband suggests a Dog Rose (Rosa Canina) as an alternative thorny one. We have a Yorkshire rose in our garden which is both shrubby and thorny.

I know this can’t help but sounds really bloodthirsty can’t wait for the book. All the best to you and your mum🌺

Have a look at the David Austin website. They are the best rose growers in England. www.davidaustinroses.co.uk Good luck! Paul

One of my favourite roses - Comte de Chambord - is very thorny indeed. It's an old Bourbon rose and totally gorgeous - a rich pink with a heavenly old rose scent. Do look it up!

I thought the David Austin roses were new breeds. I do not care for them myself, as they seem almost scentless.

Thanks, everybody! Yes, I had been looking at species roses and OGR's as I'm familiar with quite a few but what threw me was the differing reports (in UK vs US) for the same rose... so I wanted to make sure that I picked one which WAS definitely thorny in Britain! :P I know from my own experience growing roses that the same rose can be wildly different sometimes in different countries/climates. e.g. I love David Austin roses but the descriptions on their website are completely inaccurate for Australian conditions - the same roses that are described as "compact" and only growing to 3 feet in England grow to over 6 feet with massive octopus arms in Oz! 😝

My husband, who is a gardener, says they are an invasive, thorny rose!

A Grootendorst is the thorniest rose I've ever come across. Every part of it has thorns.

'Brandy', by Jackson Perkins was introduced in 1881 and scares me when I walk by it. Also David Austin's 'Othello' is lovely but I avoid pruning it till necessary. I feel it's important to share that kind of info. ;)

Plant thorn synovitis is a serious injury even from a small thorn injury. Yet i apprentice the dramatic licence offered by “the most vicious rose thorn”. There is also a fungal disease disseminated by roses that can enter through any opening in skin called Sporotrichosis, or “rose gardener disease”. I cant find the article presently, but as an undergrad i recall reading that thorn size and quantity may vary within the exact same species depending on environmental factors. I will keep looking for the article, but that journal was from back in the 1980’s. Not sure that any of this helps you specifically. Here is an interesting summary as it is considered an invasive spp in many areas of Canada. Success to you, the plot clue sounds intriguing. So very happy for you, and your family, that your mom is healing so well 💗🙏🏼 www.ontarioinvasiveplants.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OIPC_BMP_Multiflora_Mar122018_D5_WEB-1.pdf

not a british native, multiflora is a species that has multiple floers on one stem. Started from wild roses from Asia. there are many differnt types within the species, some are thorny some are not. they are ramblers & grow fast.

There's one called Barbara Bush, and I kid you not, the thorns are unbelievable. My dog backed into it and it was like porcupine quills. I couldnt get the thorns out of his booty and he actually tore his flesh out yo remedy his misery. He then dug up every rose bush I had regardless. I used to hear him growl at roses!

H. Y. Hannah, here is a beautiful fragrant pink rose called "Bewitched" that has thorns as big as SHARKS teeth. And I have scars to prove it!!!!

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H.Y. Hanna - Author

1 month ago

Meanwhile back home, my husband tells me that Muesli has been helping to look after my garden...! ;-) In case anyone is wondering, those beautiful pink flowers are called 'Lisianthus' - also known as Prairie Gentian or Texas Bluebell, as they originated in the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean and South America.
I killed dozens of Lisianthus plants before I figured out that they like to remain dry - their roots rot really easily, so you have to water VERY sparingly! :p They're gorgeous and come in an array of beautiful pastel shades.
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Beautiful flowers ❤ So glad Muesli is helping with the gardening 😉

Beautiful!

So pretty! I'm going to try planting some peonies and hydrangeas soon and hope I don't kill them 😆

Beautiful

Lovely flowers

Beautiful garden!

Beautiful 🌷

Your garden looks wonderful and the Lisianthus are spectacular!

I grew Lisianthus last year for the first time. They do not disappoint. 🌸

Beautiful! 😍

I used to have purple ones!

How is your mom feeling?

Gorgeous

Glad you made it home

How is your mom

Aww that Muesli! She's too cute!!

Beautiful. I hope your mother is healing well and you both are prospering

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H.Y. Hanna - Author

1 month ago

For all those who have been asking, my mother is continuing to recover well from her spinal surgery. :-) It was lovely seeing her delight when she was allowed out for her first walk and it was very interesting for me accompanying her to rehabilitation classes to help rebuild her core muscles and strengthen her spine again... It made me realise how bad MY posture is, especially as I spend hours every day hunched over my computer, writing books! :P
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Glad to hear all is ok.x

Iam so happy your mom is on the to recovery. Enjoy all the time with her..keep smiling an stay safe ❤

Great news about your mom. Onwards and upwards now for you both. Sending positive hugs and thoughts xxx

So happy to hear she’s recovering!

Continued prayers for a speedy recovery!

Sending Blessings for a full recovery

So pleased all is going well, wishing a speedy recovery x

Glad she’s on the mend

So glad to hear all is going well for your Mom!

So glad your Mom is doing well! Enjoy this special time with her. I too have to watch my posture!

Glad to hear she is doing well!

This is good news. Usually, we take our health for granted but it is rather a rather a gift we could and should value more. All the best for your mom‘s rehabilitation and getting well again. 🌸 BTW: I have given a copy of the first German Tearoom mystery to a friend and she enjoys it just as I did. 😀

Glad she is getting better

Great news.

How wonderful

O have just had a hip replacement and I know how your mum feels not being able to shower! Sending lots of good wishes to your mum. xxx

Thank you for posting the great pictures and update. I'm so happy to know your mother is progressing and that you both are doing well. I've been wondering about the two of you. Best wishes to you both and a full recovery for your mother. 😊 🌿🌹🌿🌸🌿🌷🌿

Hi Hsin-Yi, glad to hear that your Mum is doing well! Sending her continued well wishes!

I am currently in physical therapy myself - thanks for sharing the positive outlook.

Glad to hear.. your mom is sooo cute😄

MANY BLESSINGS.

So glad to hear that your mother's making good progress xx

Glad your Mom is doing better❤️

I see an injured book character coming up! Seriously though, Glad Mom’s on the mend!

Good News!

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H.Y. Hanna - Author

2 months ago

Thank you so much everybody for your lovely messages & good wishes for my mother's operation! <3 I'm writing from Taiwan and I'm delighted to report that she has come through the spinal surgery smoothly and has been discharged from hospital. She is now recovering at home, although she will have limited mobility for the next few weeks.
It's probably a blessing that she can't go out much as things are still worrying re: the coronavirus outbreak (although there is good control in Taiwan) - so it's just as well that we're not going out to crowded public places! We're taking all the necessary precautions and hoping to stay healthy and safe until the epidemic is over.
Thanks again for all your prayers, caring and concern - I can't tell you how touched I am!! I hope you are all staying safe and healthy too during these difficult times.
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Glad she is doing well!

Good news.

So glad that your Mom is doing well! Continued prayers for the both of you ❤️❤️🙏🙏

Prayers for continued & complete healing.

God bless you and family!

Blessings to your Mum, really pleased she’s doing well xx

Good news. Best wishes for a quick recovery from Rome (Italy).

Stay safe. Wonderful news!

Great news !

Wonderful news that she’s doing well! 🙏🏻 for continued good health for both of you!

So happy to hear good news!! May recovery continue to go smoothly

So good to hear 👍👌 Continued best wishes for her and you 💐🍀❤️💐

Prayers for a speedy and complete recovery !

Great news. You both stay healthy and a speedy recovery to your mother.

That is great, Hsin-Yi. Give her my love xx

I'm so glad that your Mom's spinal surgery was successful and that she is now at home. Prayers for continued recovery and safety from the coronavirus. Take care!

This is really great news and good to see both you and your mother smiling. I will continue to keep you both in my thoughts and prayers. x

So pleased all has gone well, you have been in my thoughts and prayers. I will continue to pray for you both and for family. 🙏🙏

So glad to hear this news! I will continue to pray for you and your family - hope things continue to improve and your mom gets better quickly! :)

Prayers for a good recovery and stay safe from the virus.

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Much love and hugs to you and your lovely mother!! I hope she has a speedy recovery.

Great news! Best wishes to you both!

Wonderful news about your mom. You and your family safe an healthy. Sending prayers an love your way..

Stay safe.

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H.Y. Hanna - Author

2 months ago

Hi everybody - I have a bit of bad news. I had to make an urgent trip to Taiwan a week ago as my mother - who turns 70 this year - had a health scare, with debilitating leg pain and dangerously high blood pressure (she ended up in the ER with a blood pressure of 200, dizziness, shortness of breath & chest pain). It turns out that she needs to have a spinal operation and the earliest date they can fit her in is early Feb. I flew back to Australia earlier this week and am back home now, but I will need to return to Taiwan in early Feb to look after her for the few weeks post-surgery. (Bit of a worrying time to be going to Asia and hanging around hospital environments, given the coronavirus epidemic in nearby China!! :P )

As you can imagine, this has completely disrupted things work-wise. I'd been hoping to finish writing the next book in my English Cottage Garden Mysteries: TROWEL AND ERROR (Book 4) in Jan, ready for release in Feb... but I've only completed 2/3rds of the story so far. I'm home for a week before I have to leave again and I doubt I'll be able to do much writing while I'm away. So unfortunately, it looks like I won't be able to return to the manuscript until after my mother recovers and I can come home. I will try my best to finish the book in whatever free time I can find, but I really need quiet & isolation to focus on writing and it's difficult with so many things going on.

So I don't think the book will be ready for release until March or maybe even early April... and it also means that the next Bewitched by Chocolate mysteries (Book 7) will be delayed until the second half of the year. I'm sorry about the delays but I hope you will understand. Due to all the travelling and being off-line, I also won't be checking email or social media as regularly, so forgive me if I'm unable to respond to your messages.

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Take care and I hope all goes well with your Mom's operation...🙏♥️🙏

Prayers for a speedy recovery.

Family First! Will be extra excited when books do arrive. Will be praying for safe travels and good outcomes for Mom.

Prayers to you and your family. Your books are worth the wait. Stay strong, and be sure to take care of yourself throughout all of this as well.

Family always comes first! Took good care of your mama. She is lovely, just like you.

The book (& your fans) can wait. Spend your time with your mom while you can. May God bless you and bring healing to her through the surgeons hands. May be protect your health and bring you the energy and wisdom you need.

Family most definitely first. Thoughts and prayers coming your way.

Prayers for your mother. She is so lucky to have you to take care of her~

😟❤🙏

Take care of your mom and yourself. <3. We will all still be here when she gets better.

your Mum has to be your priority - be with her . we will all be waiting for news and your news books when you are ready xx

Please know your fans will gladly wait as long as we need too! Your family comes first. Will be praying for your mother (and you)!

Best wishes for your mother

Good luck to you and your mom. Family comes first

Sending good thoughts for your mom for a speedy recovery! And safe travels... be sure to take care of yourself too!

Thoughts and prayers for you and your mom..family first, health and safe travels to you and a successful surgery and recovery to your mom. 💗

Prayers and wishes for safe travel with no delays. We will be here when you return.💕

Prayers for safe travels and healing for your mother.

Family first. Prayers for your mother.🙏🏻🙏🏻

You just worry about taking care of you and your mother. 💜💜

Sending healing energy for your sweet Mom! Prayers for a skillful surgeon and speedy recovery.

Family comes first. ❤️

Oh! Best of luck to your mother! We will be waiting patiently!!

Family first.

Family is more important than anything. Take your time with your mom, we understand! <3 Wishing all the best for her surgery and recovery.

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