"Delectable and delicious amateur sleuth mystery"
Theodosia Browning, owner of the Indigo Tea Shop in the
historic downtown district of Charleston, South Carolina,
agrees to cater the "Ghost Crawl" society tour of the
Jasmine cemetery sponsored by Charleston's Medical Triad.
The host is Dr. Jasper Davis, the uncle of Theodosia's
boyfriend Jory. Uncle Jasper and his team developed the
Novalaser, a less invasive way of performing angioplasty.
All of a sudden Dr. Davis keels over and is dead;
Theodosia finds a syringe near the body. Jory asks his girlfriend to investigate his uncle's death
since she has a history of solving homicides. She plunges
into the investigation with plenty of enthusiasm and
everyone who knows her believe she is on the trail of the
killer. When she is out horseback riding, someone tries
to shoot her and shortly thereafter somebody throws a rock
through her window warning her to stop her inquiries.
Theodosia becomes even more determined to find the killer
since she doesn't let her fear interfere with keeping her
promise to Jory. The latest Tea Shop Mystery is a delectable and delicious
amateur sleuth mystery with mouth watering recipes that
are worth the price of the book. The description of tea
and the meals that The Indigo Tea Shop serves will make
readers salivate. The heroine out does herself in this
homicide investigation because she is investigating
homicides without empirical evidence. Laura Childs serves
up a delightful tea and murder mystery. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 16, 2004
SummaryIndigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is catering a
Charleston benefit, a "Ghost Crawl" through Jasmine
Cemetery. But the organizer, Dr. Davis, won't get to enjoy
the festivities: during the Crawl's theatrical number, he
drops dead. It looks like foul play-but how could such an
upstanding citizen have enemies?
With a nose for trouble, Theodosia starts stirring things
up with her own investigation to find the do-badder. But
before long, chasing down the culprit gets her in hot water
up to her neck.
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