Description:

You know about Victoria Square thanks to the Victoria Square Mysteries. Artisans Alley takes center stage in those books, but the merchants—and their businesses—are just as intriguing. They all have stories to tell … and that’s what the Life on Victoria Square companion series is all about.
So settle back and really get to know the merchants. Learn about their lives, and how life on Victoria Square affects them. It might just make a profound impression on you, too!

THE BROKEN TEACUP: Katie Bonner needs a pick-me-up one cold and gloomy fall day, and the US Mail delivers—literally. A mysterious package arrives at Artisans Alley with her name on it, but the return address is obscured and the treasure inside, a beautiful bone china teacup, is broken. Before Katie can open the accompanying card, she’s called away and one of the vendors mistakes the
package for trash. Katie makes a quick rescue, but the card is gone. Who sent the cup? What is its significance? Can Katie solve this mini mystery? **

About the Author

The immensely popular Booktown Mystery seriesis what put Lorraine Bartlett's pen name Lorna Barrett on the New York TimesBestseller list, but it's her talent -- whether writing as Lorna, or L.L.Bartlett, or Lorraine Bartlett -- that keeps her there. This multi-published,Agatha-nominated author pens the exciting Jeff Resnick Mysteries as well as theacclaimed Victoria Square and Lotus bay Mystery series, and the Tales ofTelenia adventure-fantasy saga, and has many short stories and novellas to hername(s).