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Tea Shop Mysteries · Book 1

Death by Darjeeling

by Laura Childs

Published
1 January 2001
Pages
313
ISBN-13
9780425179451
Type
novel

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About this book

"Death by Darjeeling" is book 1 in the Tea Shop Mysteries series, published in 2001, and runs 313 pages. It's the book that opened the series and introduced Theodosia, the Indigo Tea Shop, and its Church Street setting. Like the rest of the series, it follows Theodosia Browning, owner of the Indigo Tea Shop on Church Street, as she turns amateur sleuth after a body turns up at one of Charleston's genteel tea events.

Its place in Tea Shop Mysteries

Death by Darjeeling is book 1 in the Tea Shop Mysteries series. It is followed by Gunpowder Green. See the full Tea Shop Mysteries reading order.

Theodosia Browning owns the Indigo Tea Shop on Church Street in historic Charleston, South Carolina, where she brews specialty blends, hosts elaborate themed tea parties, and — with alarming regularity — trips over dead bodies at those same genteel events. With her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley and baker Haley Parker at her side, Theodosia turns amateur sleuth every time Charleston's high society, tourist trade, or historic preservation circles turn up a corpse, working her contacts and her nose for gossip…

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