Clunky writing, boring characters, and romanticizing the glory days of the Old South. Top it all off with a description of a brown man as “a little monkey of a man”. A male character telling a female character that her car was “not particularly ladylike” and asking “ you had to buy red?” confirmed that this was not for me. Stopped about 1/3 of the way through. There have to be better tea shop cozies.