Tea Shop Mysteries · Book 2

Gunpowder Green

Published
1 January 2002
Pages
284
ISBN-13
9780425184059
Type
novel
Cover of Gunpowder Green

About this book

Published in 2002, "Gunpowder Green" is the 2nd Tea Shop Mysteries novel, and spans 284 pages. As with the rest of Laura Childs's series, it's steeped in specific detail about tea varieties and Charleston's cobblestone streets and antebellum architecture, usually with a back-of-book appendix of the recipes Theodosia serves.

Key facts about Gunpowder Green

Gunpowder Green is a novel by Laura Childs. Readers have had it since 2002. It runs to 284 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Gunpowder Green. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780425184059 to find the main one.

Gunpowder Green is book 2 of 30 in the Tea Shop Mysteries series. The series has 30 published books. However, the series starts with Death by Darjeeling (2001).

Death at a Firefly Tea is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 10 March 2026. Meanwhile, Buttermint Bomb comes next, with an announced date of 2 March 2027.

Additionally, Laura Childs writes Scrapbooking Mysteries and Cackleberry Club Mysteries as separate series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery shelf. Meanwhile, Death at a Firefly Tea is the latest published Laura Childs book on file, from 10 March 2026.

About Laura Childs

Laura Childs is the pen name of Gerry Schmitt, an American author of cozy mysteries best known for the long-running Tea Shop Mysteries, set in a Charleston, South Carolina tea shop run by amateur sleuth Theodosia Browning. See every Laura Childs book in order.

Its place in Tea Shop Mysteries

Gunpowder Green is book 2 in the Tea Shop Mysteries series. It follows Death by Darjeeling. It is followed by Shades of Earl Grey. 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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