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NOW IN ONE VOLUME—A DEADLY BLEND OF THE FIRST THREE TEA SHOP MYSTERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LAURA CHILDS

Charleston tea shop owner Theodosia Browning always seems to find herself steeped in mystery and murder.

Death by Darjeeling
Theo is serving tea for two hundred or so at…

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Laura Childs is the queen of the cozy mystery genre, with over 25 tea shop mysteries and 16 scrapbooking mysteries (my other favorite subject). If you haven’t read Laura Childs before, Tea for Three is her first three books and a great way to fall in love with the series and her protagonist, Theodosia Browning, owner of Charleston's Indigo Tea Shop.

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