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  • Published: 17 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781984804860
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $19.99

Death on the Night of Lost Lizards



An all-new book in Julia Buckley's Hungarian Tea House Mysteries featuring Hana Keller and her tea-leaf reading grandmother.

Along with her mother and grandmother, Hana Keller has achieved renown serving tea and cakes with a European flair, but when a local professor is killed, she uncovers a serving of suspects instead…

Hana Keller is getting ready for a lovely holiday season. When she receives a rare tea set as a birthday gift, she decides to host a tea at her apartment for her closest friends. During the cozy get-together, one of Hana's friends gets word that a murderer is on the loose. Hana soon learns that the victim was Sandor Balog, a professor of Hungarian Studies at the local college.

With her growing psychic ability, Hana senses that she is going to be pulled into the investigation of  the professor's death somehow. With her sexy boyfriend Erik on the case, Hana finds the Tea House steeped in suspects. She studies the smiling faces celebrating the season, but the real killer is good at hiding the truth and putting Hana in the hot seat….

  • Published: 17 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781984804860
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $19.99

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"Absorbing and, in parts, genuinely spine-tingling. With this debut, the Hungarian Tea House mystery series has jumped on my list of all-time favorites, and I'm very excited to see where it goes next."--Criminal Element

"Hana is a smart and engaging heroine with just the right amount of sass." --Bailey Cates, New York Times bestselling author of Cookies and Clairvoyance

"Julia Buckley's delightful new series debut...includes three generations of strong, intelligent women, craving-inducing discussions of food, and a fascinating background of Hungarian culture along with a dandy mystery."--Miranda James, New York Times bestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks Mysteries