This is the first book I have read by Paula Brackston, but it definitely will not be my last. The Little Shop of Found Things is an engrossing, cozy mystery. What makes it unique is that traveling through time is an essential element of the plot. There is a touch of romance in the story, but that is secondary to the main storyline which involves the main character, Xanthe Woodlake, and her attempts to save the life of a young servant girl. At the end of the book, the mystery has been resolved and the reader is left to hope that she has not heard the last from Xanthe.