The Tea Ladies

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A wickedly witty cosy crime novel set in Sydney in the swinging sixties, ideal for fans of Richard Osman and Bonnie Garmus.

WINNER 2024 Danger Awards - Best Fiction
SHORTLISTED 2024 Sisters In Crime Davitt Awards - Best Adult Crime
SHORTLISTED 2024 Ned Kelly Awards - Best Fiction

She keeps everyone's secrets, until there's a murder...

Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter with a stranger, mild-mannered tea lady Hazel Bates becomes an accidental sleuth, stumbling into a world of ruthless crooks and racketeers in search of a young woman she believes to be in danger.

In the meantime, Hazel’s job at Empire Fashionwear is in jeopardy. The firm has turned out the same frocks and blouses for the past twenty years and when the mini-skirt bursts onto the scene, it rocks the rag trade to its foundations. War breaks out between departments and it falls to Hazel, the quiet diplomat, to broker peace and save the firm.

When there is a murder in the building, Hazel and her network of tea ladies put themselves in danger as they piece together clues that connect the murder to a nearby arson and a kidnapping. But if there’s one thing tea ladies can handle, it’s hot water.

Published: 12 April 2023
ISBN: 9781761341267
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Audio
Format: Audio Download
Length: 10 hr 42 min
Narrator: Zoe Carides
RRP: $34.99

Categories:

Crime & mystery

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About the author

Amanda Hampson

Melbourne-based author Amanda Hampson has been writing professionally for more than thirty years and is the bestselling author of nine novels: The Olive Sisters, Two for the Road, The French Perfumer, The Yellow Villa, Sixty Summers, Lovebirds, The Tea Ladies, The Cryptic Clue and her forthcoming release, The Deadly Dispute.

A runaway bestseller, The Tea Ladies won the 2024 Danger Awards for Best Crime Fiction and was Shortlisted for the 2024 Davitt Awards - Best Adult Crime and the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards – Best Fiction.