Tea Shop Mysteries · Book 3

Shades of Earl Grey

Published
1 January 2003
Pages
277
ISBN-13
9780425188217
Type
novel
Cover of Shades of Earl Grey

About this book

"Shades of Earl Grey" (2003) continues the series at number 3, and runs 277 pages. It carries forward the series' brisk, puzzle-driven mysteries built around Charleston's tourism, charity-gala, and historic-society circuit, with tea sommelier Drayton Conneley and baker Haley Parker at Theodosia's side.

Key facts about Shades of Earl Grey

Shades of Earl Grey is a novel by Laura Childs. Readers have had it since 2003. It runs to 277 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Shades of Earl Grey. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780425188217 to find the main one.

Shades of Earl Grey is book 3 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

Shades of Earl Grey is book 3 in the Tea Shop Mysteries series. It follows Gunpowder Green. It is followed by The English Breakfast Murder. 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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