Laura Childs, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-425-20807-6
If Southern cozies are your cup of tea, you'll enjoy curling up with the seventh installment of Theodosia Browning's sleuthing adventures (after 2005's Chamomile Mourning
). Theodosia, owner of Charleston's Indigo Tea Shop, is...
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-28166-6
Childs's 17th Tea Shop mystery (after 2015's Ming Tea Murder) starts off with a bang—or rather, a crash. Theodosia Browning, intrepid owner of the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, S.C., is catering a glittering show of gems and jewels hosted by her...
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-28164-2
Murder spoils the black-tie affair that opens bestseller Childs’s soothing 16th mystery to feature Charleston, S.C., tea shop owner Theodosia Browning (after 2014’s Steeped in Evil). The Gibbes Museum, of which Theodosia’s boyfriend, Max Scofield,...
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-25559-9
Early in Childs’s entertaining sixth Cackleberry Club mystery set in the Midwestern town of Kindred (after Eggs in a Casket), Hannah Venable perishes in a fire that destroys the county services building where she worked. In what becomes an arson...
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-26666-3
Childs’s enjoyable 12th Scrapbooking mystery (after 2013’s Gilt Trip) finds charming heroine Carmela Bertrand musing about what costumes to wear over Halloween and what classes to offer next at her New Orleans craft store. But she soon has a bigger...
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-25295-6
In Childs’s charming 15th cozy featuring Theodosia Browning (after 2013’s Sweet Tea Revenge), the owner of a tea shop in Charleston, S.C., the heroine encounters a new mystery while accompanying friend and business partner Drayton Conneley to a wine-
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-25288-8
More than rain spoils a June wedding in Childs’s pleasing 14th Tea Shop mystery featuring Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, S.C. (after 2012’s Agony of the Leaves). On the wedding day of an old friend, maid-of-honor
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-25275-8
At the start of Childs’s flat 10th Scrapbooking mystery set in New Orleans (after 2011’s Skeleton Letters), craft store owner Carmela Bertrand is waiting to be interviewed by Kimber Breeze, “the perky, Botoxed reporter from KBEZ-TV” who’s covering...
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-24553-8
Childs’s lively 13th Tea Shop mystery (after 2011’s Scones & Bones) finds Theodosia Browning with a lot on her plate, what with her bustling Charleston, S.C., tea shop, a line of proprietary blends, and a hot new romance—and that’s even before she...
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-24389-3
The theft of a religious icon from New Orleans’ St. Tristan’s church leads to murder in Childs’s disappointing ninth Scrapbooking mystery (after 2010’s Fiber & Brimstone). Carmela Bertrand, the proprietor of the scrapbooking shop Memory Mine, and...
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Laura Childs, Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-23896-7
Charleston tourist notes enhance Childs's charming 12th tea-themed cozy featuring Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the city's Indigo Tea Shop (after 2010's The Teaberry Strangler). During the Heritage Society's Pirates and Plunder show, someone...
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Laura Childs, Berkley Prime Crime, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-23823-3
Two murders distract Suzanne Dietz and her best friends and business partners, Toni and Petra, just as they're gearing up for a big Halloween bash in Childs's diverting third Cackleberry Club cozy (after 2009's Eggs Benedict Arnold). First, someone...
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Laura Childs, Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-23674-1
Halloween season in a revitalized, post-Katrina New Orleans provides the backdrop for Childs's colorful, briskly plotted eighth scrapbooking mystery (after 2009's Tragic Magic). When Brett Fowler, a Big Easy Ponzi schemer, gets fatally gored by the...
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Laura Childs, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $24.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-425-23245-3
Set in Charleston, S.C., Childs's tepid 11th tea-themed puzzler (after 2009's Oolong Dead
) offers an elegant heroine in her 30s who some readers may feel too often acts like an old lady. One rainy March evening, while walking along a...
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Laura Childs, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $24.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-425-22989-7
The murder of jeweler Melody Mayfeldt, an enthusiast of the supernatural, at Medusa Manor, a New Orleans mansion being converted into a haunted house attraction for an upcoming horror convention, drives Childs's contrived seventh scrapbooking...
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Laura Childs, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-22599-8
At the start of Childs's soothing 10th Tea Shop mystery (after 2008's The Silver Needle Murder
), Indigo Tea Shop proprietor Theodosia Browning and her horse, Captain Harley, encounter murder most unsavory during the annual Charleston...
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Laura Childs, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-425-22478-6
A murder in the midst of Mardi Gras propels Childs’s enjoyable sixth Scrapbooking mystery (after 2007’s Frill Kill
). Carmela Bertrand, the owner of the New Orleans scrapbook shop Memory Mine, and her best friend, Ava Gruiex, are eager...
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Laura Childs, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-425-21946-1
In Childs's diverting ninth Tea Shop cozy (after 2007's Dragonwell Dead
), Theodosia Browning, proprietor of Charleston's Indigo Tea Shop, is in the audience of the recently restored Belvedere Theater when someone shoots celebrated movie director...
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Laura Childs, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-425-21730-6
Memory Mine shop owner Carmela Bertrand finds herself caught up in New Orleans Halloween mayhem in Childs's sprightly fifth scrapbooking mystery (after 2006's Motif for Murder
). In an alley behind her friend Ava Grieux's Juju Voodoo...
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Laura Childs, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-425-21386-5
In the enjoyable eighth installment of Childs's tea shop series (after 2006's Blood Orange Brewing
), Mark Congdon, commodities broker and co-owner of a Charleston bed and breakfast, drops dead after sipping a glass of sweet tea at the...
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Laura Childs, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-425-21204-2
Childs's fourth scrapbooking mystery (after 2004's Bound for Murder
), her first in hardcover, offers plenty of action even if it doesn't take full advantage of its setting, post-Katrina New Orleans. Just when series heroine Carmela...
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Laura Childs, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $19.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-425-19813-1
Childs makes a well-deserved shift to hardcover with the fifth installment in her popular Tea Shop mystery series (Death by Darjeeling
, etc.). Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her staff are serving tea and goodies during...
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Laura Childs with Diana Orgain. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-425-25292-5
Chutzpah and coincidence play large roles in Childs's 11th Scrapbooking mystery (after 2012's Postcards from the Dead), co-authored with Orgain (Formula for Murder). This Big Easy romp starts with a glitzy party for Jerry Earl Leland, welcomed home...
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Laura Childs, with Terrie Farley Moran. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-26668-7
At the start of Childs’s uneven 13th scrapbooking mystery (after 2014’s Gossamer Ghost), this one coauthored with Moran (Caught Red-Handed), Carmela Bertrand, proprietor of the scrapbook shop Memory Mine, and her detective boyfriend, Edgar Babcock,...
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Laura Childs, with Terrie Farlie Moran. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-26670-0
Bestseller Childs, with the help of Agatha Award–winner Moran (Well Read, Then Dead), has whipped up a frothy concoction for the 14th Scrapbooking mystery (after 2015's Parchment and Old Lace). While shopping at the Winter Market in New Orleans's...
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-28168-0
At the start of Childs’s lively, entertaining 18th Tea Shop mystery (after 2016’s Devonshire Scream), Theodosia Browning, owner of the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, S.C., and her friend and tea sommelier, debonair Drayton Conneley, arrive at an...
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-48960-9
At the start of Childs’s savory 19th Tea Shop mystery (after 2017’s Pekoe Most Poison), Theodosia Browning, owner of the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, S.C., and her debonair friend and tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, witness the fatal fall of...
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Laura Childs. Berkley, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-28172-7
At the start of bestseller Childs’s enjoyable eighth Cackleberry Club mystery (after 2016’s Egg Drop Dead), Scrooge-like lawyer Allan Sharp is playing Ebenezer Scrooge in a dress rehearsal of A Christmas Carol, held at a theater in the Midwestern...
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Laura Childs. Berkley, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-48963-0
Bestseller Childs’s 20th Tea Shop mystery (after 2018’s Plum Tea Crazy) opens with Theodosia Browning, the proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, S.C., and tea sommelier Drayton Conneley enjoying a hot air balloon ride, until, to their...
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-48966-1
At the outset of bestseller Childs’s agreeable 21st Tea Shop mystery (after 2019’s Broken Bone China), Theodosia Browning, the owner of the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, S.C., and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are attending a bird hunt at...
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-28174-1
In Childs’s lightweight ninth Cackleberry Club mystery (after 2018’s Eggs on Ice), café owner Suzanne Dietz is making a routine trip to the hospital in the Midwestern town of Kindred to deliver a thermos of chili to her physician fiancé, Sam Hazelet,
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Laura Childs. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-20086-5
With several Christmas-themed teas booked for the month, Theodosia Browning, owner of the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, S.C., is looking forward to a busy December, in Childs’s uneven 23rd Tea Shop mystery (after Haunted Hibiscus). The season gets...
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Laura Childs, with Terrie Farley Moran. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-48954-8
At the start of bestseller Childs’s charming 15th Scrapbooking mystery (after 2016’s Crepe Factor, also with Moran), New Orleans scrapbook shopkeeper Carmela Bertrand and her best friend, Ava Gruiex, are watching the Mardi Gras festivities when the...
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Laura Childs, with Terrie Farley Moran. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-48957-9
Set in New Orleans, Childs’s busy 18th Scrapbooking mystery (after 2018’s Glitter Bomb, also with Moran) offers murder, romance, recipes, and scrapbooking tips. One evening during Mardi Gras, scrapbooking storekeeper Carmella Bertrand and her free-sp
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