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The Perfect Blend
by Candace Biecker and Shelly Haskell
The Perfect Blend is where Shelly and Candy get to do what they love best- drink tea and read and discuss books.
Episodes
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Heart-Shaped Box
Jude Coyne bought a ghost in a heart-shaped box. He collects the macabre and this time, he might be sorry he did. Shelly's tea: Artemis Tea Leo Candy's tea: Traditional Medicinals Smooth Move
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Call From the Crossroads
Logan is trying to get his life together, if only the ghosts would let him... S.K. Ehra Shelly's tea: Blackbird Tea and Tales Courage Tea Candy's tea: Bigelow Ginger Honey with Zinc
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Dracula
Bram Stoker's original 1897 story of Count Dracula. Shelly's tea: Bigelow Steep Organic Rooibos Hibiscus with rose hips and cranberries added Candy's tea: Caykru Turkish Tea Other vampire books mentioned: Salem's Lot Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires True Blood series Bless Your…
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The Raven Scholar
Neema Kraa is the High Raven Scholar under Emperor Bersen the Brusque. Despite her lofty position, she is unpopular amongst the courtiers and subjects of the other Guardian realms. When a murder takes place before the auspicious Festival begins, Neema is tasked with finding the murderer and...
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She Didn't See It Coming
Bryden Frost disappears on the way to pick up her daughter from daycare. Her husband finds her phone, laptop and keys still at home. Shari Lapena Shelly's tea: Plum Deluxe Coconut Macaron Dessert Black Tea Candy's tea: Adagio Tea Monster Mash
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I've Got a New Complaint
Laurie Notaro's book I've Got a New Complaint is a book of essays about being a mid-life woman and all the tomfoolery and disasters that entails. Irreverently funny and the perfect cure when you need a good belly laugh! Shelly's tea: The Republic of Tea Pumpkin Spice for Gourdists: Tiesta Tea...
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We Were Never Here
Emily and Kristen have been best friends for years. On a trip to Cambodia, Emily experiences a traumatic event and Kristen helps her through it. Emily begins to see that Kristen is not the friend she thought she was and she must figure out how to untangle the web she is caught in. Shelly's tea…
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Imagine signing up to become cryogenically frozen upon your death and then reanimated sometime in the future. Bob Johannsen did just that, dying not 24 hours after buying a cryogenic package. 177 years later, he is awakened to find he is now an AI probe. The planet is in peril, the world is at…
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These Summer Storms
April Storms is prepared to spend a few days with her estranged family for her father's funeral. She has no idea that her father left one last family challenge for them all and staying could be the undoing of her and her siblings. Sarah MacLean Shelly's tea: Bigelow Earl Gray with vanilla and…
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Masquerade of Bones
Everly Thorn is a witch trying to hide that she is a witch. Hard to do when she can sense the magic of dead magical creatures. She has quite a few things going in the wrong direction and the only thing going her way is a dark deadly reaver who backs her into a corner and makes her an offer she...
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The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles tells the story of the Trojan War through the eyes of Patroclus, Achilles beloved companion. Shelly's Tea: Artemis Tea Leo Candy's Tea: Bigelow Ginger Honey
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We Solve Murders
Amy works for Maximum Impact Solutions as a private security agent. Fosie D'Antonio is the mystery writer she is protecting. Steve Wheeler is a retired police officer who is also Amy's father-in-law. The three have to work together to figure out who has been murdering influencers and keep Amy…
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Villa Coco
A young man has just graduated college and is given the opportunity to work in his field archiving a baroness's extensive art collection in the Tuscan town of Ferrarra. Shelly's tea: Tazo Skinny Chai with an espresso pod Candy's tea: Caribbean Fusion Peachy Groves in a Dream tea
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The People We Meet On Vacation
Up until 2 years ago, Poppy and Alex took a trip every summer . They are best friends and love spending time together discovering new places. But love may or may not have gotten in the way. Shelly's tea: Snarky Tea Orange Grapefruit Candy's tea: Snarky Tea Chocolate Strawberry
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The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett's latest book takes us back to 1933 Oxford, Mississippi where the lives of Birdie Calhoun and an orphan named Meg converge to change their lives forever. Shelly's tea: Snarky Tea Blueberry Peach Cobbler Candy's tea: Corn Silk Tea America's Forgotten Mass Imprisonment of Women...
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Fever Beach
Join us for our thoughts on Carl Hiassen's Fever Beach where the lives of a less than intelligent white-suprmacist, a corrupt politicians and his cohorts, a committed environmentalist and a smart, sassy Latina woman all end up in the same orbit for a wild ride in the great state of Florida....
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Time Tourist Outfitters, Ltd.
Retired temporal agent Wilda Firestone is pulled back into time-travel service to investigate the deaths of time travelers, leading her on a journey through history to uncover a deadly conspiracy. Shelly's tea: Artemis Tea and Botancials Oracle Tea Candy's tea: Adagio Elderberry Wine
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The Creek, The Crone and The Crone
In 1970's North Carolina, two women's lives converge due to a powerful crone's work. Kate Shaw is a teacher in a soon-to-be-closed one room schoolhouse. She worries for the future of her students, their families and what her future holds. Lydia Brown is dealing with a recent loss and a mystery.…
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The Mad Wife
LuLu is a typical 1950s housewife trying to hold it all together, because inside- she is NOT typical at all. She starts to fall apart after the birth of her second child. Seen as "hysteria" the outside world can't understand why she can't get her housewife act together. But all is not as it...
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The Retired Assassin's Guide to Country Gardening
Dante has retired to the quiet life in a little town in New Zealand. Except his new gardener wants to continue working on the garden and a local developer gives him an offer he can't refuse . It's a great cozy paranormal mystery and it the first in a series! Shelly's tea: "Almond Joy" Black tea...
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The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives
Bev, Elsie and Margot all share something in common. Their husbands were serial killers. They rely on each other to navigate living with the aftermath of what their husbands did and use what they know to prevent another serial killer from killing again. Shelly's tea: Luzianne Sweet Tea Candy's…
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Sometimes I Lie
Amber Reynolds is in a coma, but she can her everything around her. As she tries to figure out what happened, she lets the reader know three things about herself: 1. She is in a coma 2. Her husband doesn't love her anymore 3. Sometimes she lies... Shelly's tea: "Smoke and Mirrors" Mother Shrub...
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Atmosphere: A Love Story
Joan Goodwin is navigating her way through her life in the 1980's as an astronaut. One of the first women to fly a mission on a Space Shuttle, Joan begins a life that is different from anything she ever dreamed. Shelly's tea: The Tea Spot Climbers High Chai Candy's tea: Snarky Tea Chocolate...
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Everyone In This Bank is a Thief
Ernest Cunningham has written another novel about his latest mystery- a bank heist. Where everyone is a thief. Ernest, his fiancé Juliette, and a few other suspicious characters are held hostage and it's up to Ernest to figure out what each thief stole and why. Shellly's tea: New English Teas...
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Autopsy
Kay Scarpetta is back as the Chief Medical Officer of Virginia where she started oh so many years ago. Scarpetta is investigating a murder which has ties to a top-secrete space project and a possible serial killer. Patricia Cornwell Shelly's tea: A ginger, lemon and chamomile tisane Candy's tea:...
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Murder in the Secret Garden
Jane Steward's book-themed resort Storyton has a special group visiting. The Medieval Herbalist Society is meeting here to discuss medieval herbs, lore and participate in a faire. To further celebrate, one of the groups' members is getting married there. Except someone in the group is murdered....
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The Astral Library
Alix Watson is struggling. Living in Boston, working three jobs, one she was just fired from. She is locked out of her bank account- all $36 dollars of it and has been informed that she no longer has a place to stay She has reached the end of her rope. She goes to the library and steps through a...
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Kills Well With Others
In the follow up to Killers of a Certain Age, Billie, Helen, Mary Alice and Nat are back together because all is not right at The Museum. They are sent on an "unofficial" mission to clear up old business. Here's us spilling the tea on Kills Well With Others. Deanna Raybourn Shelly's tea: Adagio...
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Boudicca's Daughter
This is the story of Boudicca's battle against Rome and what possibly, maybe, could have happened to her daughter after her defeat. Shelly's tea: Bigelow Tea Steep Organic Roobos Hibiscus Herbal Tea Candy's tea: Valhalla Tea Goddess of War How Was England Created? History of Roman Londinium
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The Distance Between Us
Stella sees or thinks she sees a man she thinks she knows. In Hong Kong, Jake faces a dangerous event that changes the direction of his life. Both of them decide to escape their lives to search for something they are missing. Maggie O'Farrell Shelly's tea: Smoky Earl Grey (British bergamot and...
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Bunny
Samantha Mackey is a scholarship student in an elite MFA program who gets drawn into a bizarre, cult-like clique of wealthy girls who call each other "Bunny" and perform strange rituals, blurring the lines between reality, fantasy, and horror. Mona Awad Shelly- Bunny's tea: Abbi's Tea Strawberry...
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The Amalfi Curse
In present time, Haven Ambrose is a nautical archeologist on a quest for sunken treasure in Posistano, Italy. In 1821, Mari uses her witchcraft to protect her village while desperately wishing to leave her home by the sea and join her secret love. Haven's quest leads her to unravel the mystery…
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
The world collapses and any survivors are left with a decision: either take their chances surviving on the Earth's surface , or play the game underneath. Carl and what would have been his soon-to-be-ex's show cat Princess Donut take the stairs down into a whole new world. It's an deadly...
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Magical Midlife Madness
Divorced, on her own and wondering what to do with her new freedom, Jessie decided to become caretaker of Ivy House. Jessie finds adventure, humor and chutzpah as weirder and weirder things happen. The hilarity and snark are rampant in this one! K. F. Breene Shelly's Tea: Tea Drops Rose Earl Grey...
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Sense and Scents Ability
For a few minutes, Nora Black died on the table during her hysterectomy. When she woke up, she discovered she had then unique ability to experience someone else's memory when she smells certain scents. She uses that ability to help solve murder mysteries. Renee George Shelly's tea: "Ombre…
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Fahrenheit 451
Firemen don’t put fires out in this world where books are forbidden—they set them. Guy Montag is a fireman who is beginning to doubt why the destruction is necessary. Ray Bradbury Shelly's tea: Mocktail Lapsang Souschong Old Fashion 2 oz strong Lapsang Souschog tea infused with orange essence or...
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The Christmas Guest
Ashley is an American student studying abroad in London in the 1980's. She is invited to a classmate's Cotswold manor house for Christmas. Thirty years later, that Christmas is revisited through the rereading of her diary. This is a gothic-style thriller novella packed with suspense- something...
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Mr. Dickens and His Carol
Samantha Silva has managed to blend fiction and non-fiction in this tale of the inspiration, frustration, and imagination that amalgamated into the classic A Christmas Carol. Mr. Dickens and His Carol has been added to our list of Christmas favorites. Shelly's tea: Orange Spice Tea- her own blend...
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In a Holidaze
In A Holidaze Maelyn Jones gets stuck in a time loop reliving the same Christmas vacation in the family Utah cabin. She has to figure out how to break the loop and possibly change her life. Christina Lauren Shelly's tea: The Teaspot Sugar Cookie Oolong Candy's tea: Adagio Tea Candy Cane
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The Christmas Appeal
The Fairway Players are rehearsing their Christmas pantomime- jack and the Beanstalk for a church roof fundraiser. What unfolds is a murder mystery told through texts, emails and messages. Janice Hallett Shelly’s tea: Tea and Spice Exchange Chocolate Candy Cane Candy’s tea: DavidsTea Gingerbread...
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It's the Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
Two mystery writers are invited to an English manor for Christmas by a reclusive fan. Ally Carter Shelly's Tea: Silent Night DavidsTea Candy's Tea: Secret Santa DavidsTea
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Intermezzo
An interesting novel about love, family, and relationships. Sally Rooney Shelly's tea: Curly Wurley Southern Virginia Tea Company (Quintin's Tea Emporium) Candy's tea: Ginger Honey Bigelow Tea
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
June Farrow is determined to break the Farrow woman curse. What she believes is generational madness is actually something much more. Shelly's tea: Cranberry Pecan Scone Southern Virginia Tea Company Candy's tea: Grannie's Garden Tea Thyme Refined The Unmaking of June Farrow Book Club Kit
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And Then There Were Crumbs...
Kate has lost her job, broke her engagement off and decides to move from Manhattan to Coral Cay, Florida. Desperate for a job, she lucks out at the Cookie House. Unfortunately, her new boss is soon accused of murder and she must do what she can to prove his innocence and keep the bakery open....
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Billy Summers
Billy Summers has one last job to do before he retires. He is an assassin who only kills the bad guys and this last job is a challenge. Stephen King Shelly's tea: Earl Grey Supreme Harney & Sons Candy's tea: Adagio tea Campfire S'Mores
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A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Potions
Saffron Everleigh is a research assistant to Dr. Maxwell at the University College London. It's 1923 and as she navigates being a woman on the staff of a male dominated department, she is also is compelled to prove her professor innocent of an accused poisoning. Kate Khavari Shelly's tea:...
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Gobbelino London and a Scourge of Pleasantries
The mysterious woman in Doc Martin boots just wanted Gobbelino and Callum to retrieve her book. She doesn't know Gobbelino is a talking cat and that Callum is his human sidekick. The two PIs don't realize it's not an ordinary book they are sent to get. The gumshoes have to race to contain magical...
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Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil
Isabella is a miserable village woman who happened upon a spellbook her miserable husband took from a wizard. All sorts of mysterious magical things begin happening on top of an influx of goblins bearing "bapples". An unlikely entrepreneur decides to take advantage of all the goblin fruit and...
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The Cloisters
Set in New York City, The Cloisters follows Ann Stilwell, a young graduate beginning an internship at the Met during the summer. She begins researching Renaissance divination and she has to navigate all manner of intrigue, power plays and a murder. Is it choice or fate that truly controls our…
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Onyx Storm
This third novel in the Empyrean series finds Violet looking beyond the wards for allies to help with the vast invasion of the evil venin. Shelly's tea: The Spice and Tea Exchange Mystic Dragon Tea Candy's Tea: True Honey Lavender Lemonade
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The Perfect Blend currently has 114 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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The Perfect Blend is where Shelly and Candy get to do what they love best- drink tea and read and discuss books.
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The Perfect Blend is created and hosted by Candace Biecker and Shelly Haskell.
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