A review by slferg
The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian

4.0

Zoe Faust is tired of traveling around the country with her Airstream. She has decided she wants to settle down in Portland. The Blue Sky Teashop makes her feel at home. She has found a fixer-upper that needs lots of fixing up and major repairs. She has a special reason for wanting the space and to certain modifications she wants. The movers come with the stuff she had in storage in Paris. She opens one of the crates and finds a gargoyle she didn’t remember having and holding a big leather book. The. The gargoyle blinks at her and she realizes it’s alive. The next day the builder arrives and she returns from her walk to find the builder dead and the gargoyle’s book is missing along with some of her antiques. Then she finds the owner of the teashop unconscious. She recognizes some unusual poison that affected the builder and the shop owner. She is extremely sensitive to plants because she has an affinity for them and experience with them. She is an alchemist and really needs the gargoyle’s book to help cure him. A boy broke in to her house the first night and is immediately causing trouble for her and the gargoyle. She is desperate to recover the book and find the killer and thief.