The Jasmine Moon Murder (A Tea Shop Mystery, #5)

Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is catering a Charleston benefit, a "Ghost Crawl" through Jasmine Cemetery. But the organizer, Dr. Davis, won't get to enjoy the festivities: during the Crawl's theatrical number, he drops dead. It looks like foul play-but how could such an upstanding citizen have enemies? With a nose for trouble, Theodosia starts stirring things up with her own investigation to find the do-badder. But before long, chasing down the culprit gets her in hot water up to her neck. Enter Series Index : 05 of 16 Calc Series Group : Tea Shop Mystery Test Search : Jasmine Moon Murder / Laura Childs Test Compare Series to Entered: eq Formats : EPUB ES Cover Quality : ICBF Quick Search : Laura Childs Tea Shop Mystery ABook : E_Only Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : amazon:042519986X, ff:c/laura-childs/jasmine-moon-murder, goodreads:251456, google:VAoIAAAACAAJ, isbn:9780425199862 Test Text Series Index: 5 Single Author : Laura Childs Have or Need : Have Raw Title : Jasmine Moon Murder Compare Author : eq Sorted Author by LN, FN: Childs, Laura ES Group : Serified_E Title Length : 19 Title Parm A : Jasmine Moon Murder Calc ESI Combined : 05 of 190 Record ID : 1144 Enter New Series (Calced): Serified_E.Tea Shop Mystery.Mystery.05 of 16..ICBF ES Name : Tea Shop Mystery EBook : Have Uncomma Author : Laura Childs Number of Words in Auth: 2 ES Genre : Mystery Calc New Series : Tea Shop Mystery.... Calc ESI Part 3 : 16 Calc ESI Part 2 : of Calc ESI Part 1 : 05 Num of Aut : 1

Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is catering a Charleston benefit, a Ghost Crawl through Jasmine Cemetery, when the organizer drops dead—and it looks like foul play. Theodosia stirs things up with her own investigation, and gets into hot water up to her neck.

Publishers Weekly

Childs makes a well-deserved shift to hardcover with the fifth installment in her popular Tea Shop mystery series (Death by Darjeeling, etc.). Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her staff are serving tea and goodies during the first-ever Ghost Crawl in Charleston's famed Jasmine Cemetery. The event ends abruptly when Dr. Jasper Davis, uncle of Theo's beau, Jory, dies mysteriously and publicly. Det. Burt Tidwell makes Theo promise she won't stick her amateur nose in, but a frazzled Jory pleads with her to use her special abilities as a sleuth to root out the killer. The victim was vice-president in charge of research at a large medical products company, Cardiotech, and Theo suspects Dr. Davis's death is connected with his job. A second murder complicates things, but Theo perseveres and eventually corners the killer using a snazzy bit of up-to-date technology to summon help. Fans will enjoy the rich brew of murder, tea lore and mouth-watering descriptions of food (recipes included). The alluring jacket art a tea spread out on a blanket in the foreground with ghostly gravestones under a full moon in the background captures the mood perfectly. Agent, Sam Pinkus. (Sept. 7) FYI: Childs is also the author of Keepsake Crimes (2003) and other titles in her Scrapbooking Mystery series. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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