Tea Maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop
Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs, now
in paperback
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 explode like a riff of Black Cat firecrackers, another
shot sounds too close for comfort to Theodosia and Drayton. Intrigued
but worried, Theodosia wanders into the neighbor's lavender field where
she discovers their host, Reginald Doyle, bleeding to death.
His wife, Meredith, is beside herself with grief and begs Theodosia and
Drayton to stay the night. But Theodosia awakens at 2:00A.M. to find
smoke in her room and the house on fire. As the fire department screams
in and the investigating sheriff returns, Meredith again pleads with
Theodosia for help.
As Theodosia investigates, fingers are pointed, secrets are uncovered,
Reginald's daughter-in-law goes missing presumed drowned, and Meredith
is determined to find answers via a séance. All the while Theodosia
worries if she's made a mistake in inviting a prime suspect to her
upscale Lavender Lady Tea.
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