A cracked teapot. A buried scandal. A small town that never forgets.Molly Wainwright just wants to keep her grandmother's porcelain shop alive through one more Cranberry Bog Festival.The Painted Teacup has stood on Main Street for forty years, its display cases built by her grandfather's own hands.Molly knows every shelf, every gold rim, every bone-china cup painted with a single cranberry branch.She knows the stories the old porcelain could tell.What she doesn't know is which of those stories can get a person killed.Then Bianca Vanderhoof sweeps in with her chihuahua tucked in her handbag and a cream-stock business card.She wants the shop. She wants the land. She'll offer forty thousand dollars and a smile sharp as a blade.And when Molly says no, Binky makes a promise instead of a threat."Your grandmother ever tell you about the Cranberry Hollow Scandal? The one that got her blacklisted from the historical society?"Molly's hands go cold, because she's heard the whispers too.A teacup. A woman who vanished years ago. A secret painted under the glaze that someone wanted erased.When the festival turns into a hunt for the truth, Molly realizes the cracked teapot her grandmother begged her never to sell may be the only thing connecting a decades-old disappearance to the very people smiling at her across the counter.Now she's chasing a midnight stalker through the cranberry bog.She's matching handwriting, prying open a locked antique cabinet, and digging through a cold case file the police closed long ago.And she's learning that the kindest faces in Cranberry Hollow hide the oldest grudges.The deeper Molly digs, the clearer it becomes: someone in this town will do anything to keep the past buried, even bury her with it.To clear her grandmother's name and save the only home she's ever known, Molly has to solve a mystery the whole town would rather leave alone.And the killer is still pouring tea.The Painted Teacup Clue is a charming, twisty cozy mystery about a beloved family shop, a small-town rivalry, a long-buried disappearance, an amateur sleuth, and a clue hidden in plain sight.Perfect for readers who love cozy small-town whodunits, antique-shop sleuths, cold-case mysteries, charming amateur detectives, and a tortoiseshell cat curled on the windowsill. A standalone Porcelain Shop Mystery with a satisfying solution and a cup of tea at the end.