Blood Orange Brewing (A Tea Shop Mystery)

I have not read this book at this itme but the bookds that I have read have been excellent and I do enjoy her books

I have ordered all of Laura Childs Tea Shop Mysteries and her Scrapbooking Mysteries. They are the best, as soon as I finish one I pick up the next one. Can't wait to see what Theo, Drayton, and Haley come up with next at the tea shop nor what Carmela and Ava create at the Scrapbook Shop. Always feel like I am right with them, either having a cuppa at the tea shop or walking in the French Quarter in New Orleans.

I HAVE NOT READ THIS BOOK YET. I DO ENJOY READING THE TEA HOUSE MYSTERY

Theodosia Browning and her Indigo Tea Shop are serving at the Candlelight Concert socialite Delaine Dish throws to raise money for a Victorian home donated to the Heritage Society. Everyone who is anyone is there as Delaine plans to hit them up to donate to restore the house. Unfortunately retired CEO and beloved politician Duke Wilkes is murdered before refreshments can be served. Detective Burt Tidwell is on the case and in no uncertain terms tells Theodosia to stay off the case. That's what Theodosia plans to do until Duke's widow begs her to look into things. Since everyone who was at the concert is a suspect, she has her work cut out for her. It doesn't take long before she finds herself in the thick of things and apparently getting too close. Can she solve this murder without putting herself and those she loves in danger? I really enjoyed this book. The Charleston setting is always relaxing to me. The story kept moving and made me want to read another chapter and not put it down. Theodosia and her associates, Drayton and Haley, are such wonderful characters. I'm not a tea drinker, but I'd love to go to their shop just so I could meet them! I can't wait to read the next installment in this series. I highly recommend this book.

I had a chance to read this latest Childs Tea Shop Mystery while I was cruising in the western Carribean. Despite the numerous offerings on ship and shore, I found it hard to put this book as enticing as the author's previous efforts in this series. Theodosia, Haley, Drayton, and even the tough, highly profession, but occasionally showing a human side, Chief Dective Burt Tidwell, were all in fine form. In Blood Orange Brewing the reader experiences not only murder, but hidden passageways/rooms, coupled with an every building, but at first subtle, tension that comes to a dramatic culmination. Even Theodosia's faithful dog Earl Gray gets mixed up in this caper; though no fault of his own. What continues to appeal to me in this latest offering (I have read every Tea Mystery to date) is the Charleston, SC setting, with some real street names and towns included by the author. This cannot help but add to the book's overall successful action and ambience. I recommend Blood Orange Brewing to all lovers of a good, well organized, mystery. I look forward with much anticipation to Laura Childs next tea shop offering! And, in closing, let us not forget to mention the tasty offerings from Haley's kitchen; even while on a cruise ship they made my mouth water.