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Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs)

Author:
Childs, Laura
 
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Star rating for Death by Darjeeling
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
When a man is poisoned by tea, Theo is the prime suspect. Now she has to prove her innocence and track down the real killer-before someone else takes their last sip.
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Star rating for Gunpowder green
Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When a member of the Charleston elite turns up dead during the annual yacht race and the simultaneous launching of the latest tea flavor, Gunpowder Green, from her Indigo Tea Shop, proprietor Theodosia Browning must draw on her sleuthing skills to find a killer.
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Star rating for Shades of Earl Grey
Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is finally invited to a social event that she doesn't have to cater-but trouble is brewing at the engagement soiree of the season..
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Star rating for The English breakfast murder
Series Volume:
4.
Description:
"It is a truly exhilarating experience for Theo--helping Charleston's Sea Turtle Protection League shepherd hundreds of tiny green loggerheads safely into the sea. But just as she's about to celebrate all her hard work with some heavy Lung Ching tea and spicy gumbo, she spots a dead body bobbing in the waves. It turns out to be local art dealer Harper Fish--a man with an eye for fine antiques. Could his death have anything to do with the sunken treasure...
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Star rating for The Jasmine moon murder
Series Volume:
5.
Description:
While catering a Charleston benefit that includes a "Ghost Crawl" through Jasmine Cemetery, Theodosia Browning finds herself investigating the mysterious death of the event's organizer, who drops dead during a theatrical performance.
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Star rating for Chamomile mourning
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Charleston, South Carolina, is alive with music, dancing, and the arts as the Spoleto festival gets underway. But Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning feels far from festive when the inaugural Poet’s Tea is forced into one of the Heritage Society’s austere halls by rain. And when it rains, it pours—as proven when a respected auction house owner plummets from the balcony, landing dead on Theodosia’s specially-prepared cake.
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Star rating for Blood orange brewing
Series Volume:
7.
Description:
When social darling Delaine Dish throws a lavish benefit for the restoration of a run-down Victorian home, Theodosia Browning donates tea and treats from her Indigo Tea Shop. But the grand unveiling of Theo's spread proves a gruesome scene when a beloved local politico falls dead with a jagged piece of metal in his neck. Anyone at the event could be the culprit, but the police have few leads-and no suspects. Try as she might, Theodosia can't help...
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Star rating for Dragonwell dead
Series Volume:
8.
Description:
Promoting her latest blend from within her Charleston tea shop throughout a blooming southern spring season, Theodosia Browning suspects foul play when broker Mark Congdon promptly dies after winning a bid for a rare monkey-face orchid.
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Star rating for The silver needle murder
Series Volume:
9.
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Star rating for Oolong dead
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
While riding her horse in a race through the South Carolina Low Country, Theodosia Browning finds her arch nemesis, Abby Davis, dead. What's more, the victim's brother is Theodosia's old flame. Who'd have guessed they'd be reunited through cold-blooded murder?
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Star rating for The teaberry strangler
Series Volume:
11.
Description:
After a particularly successful evening of sales, Charleston's Theodosia Browning discovers the body of map store owner Daria. Locals have shown interest in buying her shop--but enough to kill? Plus there's been a customer hell-bent on acquiring a not-for-sale map. Most alarming of all theories, however, is Detective Tidwell's: the killer mistook Daria for Theodosia. And if that theory holds, the killer's work isn't done.
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Star rating for Scones & bones
Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is lured into attending the Heritage Society's "Pirates and Plunder" soiree. But it's an antique diamond skull ring that gets plundered by someone who murders a history intern in the process. Theodosia knows she'll have to whet her investigative skills to find the killer among a raft of suspects.
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Star rating for Agony of the leaves
Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Theodesia discovers the body of her ex-boyfriend while catering an event at the Charleston Aquarium and begins an investigation despite emergency responders believing it to be an accident.
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Star rating for Sweet tea revenge
Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
Tea shop owner and bridesmaid Theodosia Browning investigates when the groom is literally late on the couples' big day.
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Star rating for Steeped in evil
Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In the newest mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Sweet Tea Revenge, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is about to learn the true meaning of terroir…
Theodosia Browning has never considered herself a wine connoisseur—tea has always been her forte. But that doesn’t mean she’s going to pass up an invitation to a fancy wine-tasting party at the upscale Knighthall Winery, just outside...
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Star rating for Ming tea murder
Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Normally Theodosia wouldn’t attend a black tie affair for all the tea in China. But she can hardly say no to her hunky, handsome boyfriend, Max, who directs public relations for the Gibbes Museum in Charleston. Max has organized an amazing gala opening for an exhibit of a genuine eighteenth century Chinese teahouse, and the crème de la crème of Charleston society is invited. In the exotic garden staged in the museum’s rotunda, a Chinese dragon...
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Star rating for Devonshire scream
Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"The New York Times bestselling author of Ming Tea Murder serves up heists, homicides, and herbal blends in the latest in the Tea Shop mysteries. Catering a high-class trunk show at Heart's Desire Jewelry is a shining achievement for Theodosia and the Indigo Tea Shop. After all, a slew of jewelers, museums, and private collectors will be there to showcase their wares and sip some of Theo's best blends. But just as Theo settles in to enjoy the fruits...
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Star rating for Pekoe most poison
Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
In the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs, Theodosia Browning attends a “Rat Tea,” where the mice will play...at murder.
 
When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston’s most prominent hostesses, to a “Rat Tea,” she is understandably intrigued.  As servers dressed in rodent costumes and wearing...
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Star rating for Plum tea crazy
Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Theodosia Browning investigates a Charleston steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. While viewing the harbor's Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow's walk of Timothy Neville's Charleston mansion, local banker Carson Lanier seemingly tumbles over a narrow railing, then plunges three stories to his death. But a tragic accident becomes something much more sinister...
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Star rating for Broken bone china
Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Theodosia Browning serves tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.
It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen other colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds...
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Star rating for Lavender blue murder
Series Volume:
21.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"Tea-Maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley are guests at a bird hunt styled in the precise manner of an English shooting party. Which means elevenses (sloe gin fizzes), gun loaders, the drawing of pegs, fine looking bird dogs, and shooting costumes of tweed, herringbone, and suede. But as gunshots...
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Star rating for Haunted hibiscus
Series Volume:
22.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Tea maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. It is the week before Halloween and Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her tea sommelier, Drayton, are ghosting through the dusk of a cool Charleston evening on their way to the old Bouchard Mansion. Known as the Gray Ghost, this dilapidated place was recently bequeathed to the Heritage Society,...
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Star rating for Twisted tea Christmas
Series Volume:
23.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"A haunted house with a real-life corpse and tea maven Theodosia Browning in hot water in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are catering a Victorian Christmas party at a swanky mansion in downtown Charleston for Drucilla Heyward, one of the wealthiest women in town. As the champagne flows and the tea steeps, Drucilla is so pleased with the reception...
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Star rating for A dark and stormy tea
Series Volume:
24.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"A possible serial killer on the loose sends tea maven Theodosia Browning into a whirlwind of investigation in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. It was a dark and stormy night, but that was the least of Theodosia Browning's troubles. As she approaches St. Philips Graveyard, Theodosia sees two figures locked in a strange embrace. Wiping rain from her eyes, Theodosia realizes she has just witnessed a brutal murder and...
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Star rating for Lemon curd killer
Series Volume:
25.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"High tea and high fashion turn deadly in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Tea shop entrepreneur Theodosia Browning has been tapped to host a fancy Limón Tea in a genuine lemon orchard as a rousing kickoff to Charleston Fashion Week. But as fairy lights twinkle and the scent of lemon wafts among the tea tables, the deadly murder of a fashion designer puts the squeeze on things. As the lemon curd begins to sour, the...
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Star rating for Honey drop dead
Series Volume:
26.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"The murder of a political bigwig at a Honey Bee Tea sends Theodosia Browning buzzing for answers in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Theodosia's Honey Bee Tea was an elegant affair set in Charleston's new Petigru Park amid newly planted native grasses and a community beekeeping project. But when a phony beekeeper shows up and sprays toxic smoke at the guests, the party erupts in chaos. Worse yet, a shot rings out...
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Star rating for Murder in the tea leaves
Series Volume:
27.
Description:
"A movie director's death on set at a haunted manor launches Theodosia Browning into an electrifying investigation in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Theodosia and Drayton were expecting a mellow break from the bustle at the Indigo Tea Shop while catering a film, until the director ropes Theodosia into a role as a fortune teller. At the haunted Brittleback Manor, Theodosia's character will read tea leaves and give...
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Star rating for Peach tea smash
Series Volume:
28.
Description:
"Murder at an Alice in Wonderland-themed event threatens to send Theodosia Browning through the looking glass in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series. During the Mad Hatter Masquerade, a fundraiser hosted by the Friends of the Opera on the grounds of the old Pendleton Grist Mill, Harlan Sadler, husband of Cricket Sadler, the chairwoman, is killed. He's been hit in the head with a croquet mallet, and his body hung on the chains...