Death Of A Wandering Wolf is the second book in the A Hungarian Tea House Mystery series.

Hanna Keller is enjoying a rare day off from her family’s tea house. She decides to stop at a yard sale to see if she might find any teacups to add to her collection. Instead, she finds, is what she believes, a rare figurine of a wolf. She explains this to the owner, William Kodaly, and offering to pay more for it. He refuses her offer, saying that he just wants to get rid of it and that he doesn’t trust the person who gave it to him. She also purchases a couple of beautiful oil paintings that he had painted. She then heads to meet her police detective boyfriend, Erik, for breakfast. She shows him the figurine and as he is looking it over, he shows Hanna that there is a tracking chip on the bottom. They immediately leave to return to the house to learn why it has the chip on it. But when they arrive they see a woman coming out of the house screaming and they will soon find the man has been murdered.

As Hana is starting to learn more about Kodaly she meets Henrik Sipos. Not only did Hana learn about Kodaly’s time in her little community, but also when Sipos knew him in Hungary. As a side story, Hana learns that as a very young child had gone missing, Hana’s grandmother and great grandmother, using there psychic abilities to find the missing Sipos. Hana has been trying to get Erik to share more about his family. She is surprised when she stops by his apartment to drop off a note and some of his favorite Hungarian food and as she is about to leave, a set of beautiful twins come out of his bedroom. Hana is of course speechless and the twins take the opportunity to introduce themselves and turn out to be Erik’s sisters.

The book is well-written and reads at a good pace. A great addition to this exciting new series. I’m looking forward to learning more about the twins and Erik’s family.

A delicious-sounding recipe is also included in the book.

I will be watching for the next book in this interesting series.

Hana Keller is enjoying a day off from serving up tea and delicious pastries at her family's Hungarian Tea House when her downtime turns deadly. Hana, with her friend Katie, are on the hunt for teacups but when she spots a rare wolf figurine at a local yard sale. She knows it's her lucky day when she finds a delicate porcelain Wolf to add to her collection. Hana also knows the wolf is valuable and tells the seller that he's charging too little for it. His reaction is peculiar--he says he received the wolf from someone he doesn't trust and he just wants it out of his life.
When she shows the figure to her police detective boyfriend, Erik, he finds a tiny microchip attached to the bottom of the porcelain wolf. Hana is shocked to learn that the chip is actually a tracking device. They decide to confront the seller about the sneaky sale but when they arrive at his house, they find him dead. Erik and Hana now must hunt a calculating killer.

This is the second in the "A Hungarian Tea House Mystery" series and takes place only a month after the first. Hana and Erik are still getting to know each other and Hana doesn't completely trust her supposed psychic powers. We are also introduced to Erik's twin sisters, who play are large role in keeping Hana safe when it becomes apparent that someone believes in her powers.
I enjoyed this story quite a lot and would love to visit the tea house. Hana is a pleasant narrator. The recipes in the book sound delicious and the mystery is well plotted. The addition of Erik's sisters to the series is fun and I hope to meet the rest of his family soon.

This second volume in the series had some great improvements over the first book. The characters seemed to have grown more and there wasn't as much focus on getting the introverted girlfriend of Domo out interacting with people. Overall, I enjoyed this book more than the first one. However, I'm not sure about the psychic stuff yet. That will take a little to get used to.

I really enjoyed Death in a Budapest Butterfly, so when I saw book two in An Hungarian Tea House Mystery, Death of a Wandering Wolf by Julia Buckley was coming out, I knew I wanted to read it. And book two was just as good as the first one, which often isn’t the case in cozy mystery series.

Buckley continues with her excellent character development. We get to know more about Hana and her family, along with their psychic abilities and we get to meet some new characters, including Det. Wolf’s sisters, whom I hope to see in future books. And talking about psychic abilities, Hana is starting to explore hers more, which I absolutely love.

And I adore that Det. Wolf continues to believe in Hana’s powers and share information with her in regards to the case. So many cozies have the police presence or even the heroine’s family and friends discourage her from investigating, so when I find a cozy mystery series that encourages the main character, I get very happy.

In this book, as in the first book, we learn a bit about Hungarian folktales and a lot about Hungarian cooking. Death of a Wandering Wolf inspired me to look up a recipe for a Hungarian casserole that turned out delicious and helped to encourage me to try more of the recipes at the end of the book.

As for the mystery itself, there were lots of suspects and at no point was I absolutely certain who might be the killer. Another fantastic book in An Hungarian Tea House Mystery series and one that I highly recommend.

This was a fun follow-up book about Hana and her Hungarian Tea House. I was blown away by the first book, and while I didn't quite feel that way about this one, I did still enjoy it quite a bit. It was fun to learn more about Hana and Wolf's families, although I wasn't quite as engaged in the mystery this time. I definitely wanted more scenes with Hana's grandmother because she's my favorite! Overall, I'm still glad I read this one, and I'll definitely be reading a book three if it's published!

Death of a Wandering Wolf is the second in this cozy mystery series. It did not disappoint. You can always read the publisher's synopsis, so I won't get into the whole story here. I will say that the characters continue to develop as we learn more about Hana and her psychic abilities and her boyfriend Erik's family. The introduction of Erik's twin sisters is a great addition to the plot and i hope we se more of them in books to come.
The mystery that runs throughout the book, the death of an artist and ladies' man, keeps the reader guessing as to the who and why's he was killed. High recommednded.
Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for this e-ARC. All opinions are my own. This review can also be found on my GoodReads page.