Broken Bone China
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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 start to boil up, a strange object zooms out of nowhere. It is a drone, and it appears to be buzzing around the balloons, checking them out.
As Theodosia and Drayton watch, the drone, hovering like some angry, mechanized insect, deliberately crashes into the balloon next to them. An enormous, fiery explosion erupts, and everyone watches in horror as the balloon plummets to the earth, killing all three of its passengers.
Sirens scream, first responders arrive, and Theodosia is interviewed by the police. During the interview she learns that one of the downed occupants was Don Kingsley, the CEO of a local software company, SyncSoft. Not only do the police suspect Kingsley as the primary target, they learn that he possessed a rare Revolutionary War Union Jack flag that several people were rabidly bidding on.
Intrigued, Theodosia begins her own investigation. Was it the CEO's soon-to-be ex-wife, who is restoring an enormous mansion at no expense? The CEO's personal assistant, who also functioned as curator of his prized collection of Americana? Two rival antiques' dealers known for dirty dealing? Or was the killer the fiancée of one of Theodosia's dear friends, who turns out to be an employee—and whistle-blower—at SyncSoft?
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Laura Childs. (2019). Broken Bone China. Penguin Publishing Group.
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As Theodosia and Drayton watch, the drone, hovering like some angry, mechanized insect, deliberately crashes into the balloon next to them. An enormous, fiery explosion erupts, and everyone watches in horror as the balloon plummets to the earth, killing all three of its passengers.
Sirens scream, first responders arrive, and Theodosia is interviewed by the police. During the interview she learns that one of the downed occupants was Don Kingsley, the CEO of a local software company, SyncSoft. Not only do the police suspect Kingsley as the primary target, they learn that he possessed a rare Revolutionary War Union Jack flag that several people were rabidly bidding on.
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Hot air balloons and drones fail to play well together.Theodosia Browning of the Indigo Tea Shop and her tea expert, Drayton Conneley, have catered a fancy tea for a balloon rally whose leading attraction is a balloon ride. Drayton, already white-knuckled, is horrified when a drone that appears among the balloons suddenly attacks one of them, causing it to crash and killing all the occupants. Soon Theodosia's frenemy, Detective Burt Tidwell, arrives and questions them. The police think Don Kingsley, the CEO of local tech firm SyncSoft, was the primary target. Before he went down with the balloon, Kingsley had some money problems and a wife, Tawney, whose expenses rehabbing a classic Charleston house into a B&B were getting out of hand. Antiques dealer Tod Slawson tells Theodosia and Drayton that Kingsley was also the owner of an original Gadsden Flag, a Revolutionary War artifact that vanished from his home immediately after his death. A flag worth millions, an obvious motive for murder, brings Theodosia's sleuthing instincts to the fore. She speaks with several dealers who'd been interested in buying the flag and with Tawney Kingsley, who's gone directly from prospective divorcée to heiress. Theodosia's boyfriend, Charleston police detective Pete Riley, is out of town, leaving her on her own except for Drayton and a few other friends. Taking time out from her responsibilities at the shop and all the special tea parties she's staging, Theodosia agrees to help out a friend whose boyfriend, a whistleblower at SyncSoft, is in the frame. Her continued sleuthing soon makes her a target of a killer who will stop at nothing.Has the year since Childs' last tea-shop mystery (Plum Tea Crazy, 2018, etc.) whetted your appetite? Although the mystery is weak, the tea is strong, and the loving descriptions of Charleston, tea, and the accompanying food almost make up for it.COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Setting is everything: here, the author of the New York Times best-selling "Tea Shop Mysteries" sends Theodosia Browning off to serve tea at a hot-air balloon rally. Suddenly, a snappish little drone crashes into a balloon, sending its three passengers plunging to their death. When Theo learns that one of them was the CEO of a local software company who owned a rare, much-sought-after Revolutionary War Union Jack flag, she laces on those gumshoes.
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Hot air balloons and drones fail to play well together.Theodosia Browning of the Indigo Tea Shop and her tea expert, Drayton Conneley, have catered a fancy tea for a balloon rally whose leading attraction is a balloon ride. Drayton, already white-knuckled, is horrified when a drone that appears among the balloons suddenly attacks one of them, causing it to crash and killing all the occupants. Soon Theodosia's frenemy, Detective Burt Tidwell, arrives and questions them. The police think Don Kingsley, the CEO of local tech firm SyncSoft, was the primary target. Before he went down with the balloon, Kingsley had some money problems and a wife, Tawney, whose expenses rehabbing a classic Charleston house into a B&B were getting out of hand. Antiques dealer Tod Slawson tells Theodosia and Drayton that Kingsley was also the owner of an original Gadsden Flag, a Revolutionary War artifact that vanished from his home immediately after his death. A flag worth millions, an obvious motive for murder, brings Theodosia's sleuthing instincts to the fore. She speaks with several dealers who'd been interested in buying the flag and with Tawney Kingsley, who's gone directly from prospective divorc�e to heiress. Theodosia's boyfriend, Charleston police detective Pete Riley, is out of town, leaving her on her own except for Drayton and a few other friends. Taking time out from her responsibilities at the shop and all the special tea parties she's staging, Theodosia agrees to help out a friend whose boyfriend, a whistleblower at SyncSoft, is in the frame. Her continued sleuthing soon makes her a target of a killer who will stop at nothing.Has the year since Childs' last tea-shop mystery (Plum Tea Crazy, 2018, etc.) whetted your appetite? Although the mystery is weak, the tea is strong, and the loving descriptions of Charleston, tea, and the accompanying food almost make up for it.COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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