The 28th installment of the Tea Shop Mystery series finds our heroine, Theodosia Browning, attending an unusual fundraiser for the Charleston Opera Society in the company of her good friend and tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley. The Mad Hatter Masquerade benefit ball is Alice In Wonderland-themed, and Theo is ready to kick up her heels and…
Tea shop proprietor Theodosia Browning has been hired for her most glamorous gig yet: providing craft services to the set of a Hollywood movie filming near her shop in Charleston, South Carolina. The film crew has rented out the haunted Brittlebank Manor for the shoot, and Theo wouldn’t be her usual incurably nosy self if…
Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, is looking forward to catering a Lìmon Tea Party in an honest-to-goodness lemon grove. She’s been hired by local fashion brand Lemon Squeeze Couture to serve a thematic afternoon tea to accompany the launch of their inaugural collection, in conjunction with Charleston Fashion Week. Everything would be…
The fog is rolling in on Charleston, South Carolina, on the fateful evening that Theodosia Browning decides to take a shortcut while walking to the tea shop she owns. Her path leads her through St. Philip’s Graveyard—the kind of place guaranteed to spook the faint of heart—but Theo, fortunately, doesn’t believe in ghostly menaces. Unfortunately,…
Laura Childs’s latest Cackleberry Club Mystery starts off with a heart-pounding bang! Our heroine, Suzanne Dietz, is heading to the emergency room to drop off a thermos of chili con carne for her surgeon fiancé, Dr. Sam Hazelet. She’s just gotten to chatting with Ginny Harris, the nurse at admissions, when a loud commotion draws…
I have been lucky enough to co-write the four most recent books in the New Orleans Scrapbooking series by Laura Childs. I started on Parchment and Old Lace which was lucky (for me) number 13 and now the newly released Mumbo Gumbo Murder, which is the most fun ever, is being stacked on bookshelves in…
I’ve read several books each from Laura Childs’s Tea Shop and Cackleberry Club mystery series, but Mumbo Gumbo Murder, written with Terrie Farley Moran, is my first exposure to her New Orleans Scrapbooking mysteries. Set in the Big Easy, this 16th book in the series follows our heroine, craft store owner Carmela Bertrand, and her…
Theodosia Browning serves tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition and treachery, in Broken Bone China—the 20th Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times-bestselling author Laura Childs. Nothing is more normal for Theodosia Browning, “the proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop on Church Street,” than to “host weekend tea parties” at various…
The Cackleberry Club Mystery series continues to delight with this very smart eighth installment. Suzanne Dietz is gearing up for the holiday season by volunteering as a stagehand for the town of Kindred’s production of A Christmas Carol, alongside one of her business partners, Toni. They’re fumbling their way through their first blocking rehearsal when…
Eggs on Ice, Laura Childs’ eighth entry in the Cackleberry Club mystery series, provides cozy readers with a merry dose of murder for the holiday season. If you’re searching for an enjoyable Christmas “Cozy,” look no further than Eggs on Ice. It has a classic set-piece opening—Allan Sharp, a heartily disliked lawyer who plays the…
