Murder in the Tea Leaves

Its place in Tea Shop Mysteries

Murder in the Tea Leaves is book 27 in the Tea Shop Mysteries series. It follows Honey Drop Dead. It is followed by Peach Tea Smash. 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…