Dragonwell Dead (A Tea Shop Mystery) - Hardcover

Childs, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0425213862 ISBN 13: 9780425213865

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover, 2007

Synopsis

Promoting her latest blend from within her Charleston tea shop throughout a blooming southern spring season, Theodosia Browning suspects foul play when broker Mark Congdon promptly dies after winning a bid for a rare monkey-face orchid. By the author of Blood Orange Burning. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Laura Childs is a former owner/CEO/Creative Director of a marketing and advertising firm in Minneapolis.

From Publishers Weekly:

In the enjoyable eighth installment of Childs's tea shop series (after 2006's Blood Orange Brewing), Mark Congdon, commodities broker and co-owner of a Charleston bed and breakfast, drops dead after sipping a glass of sweet tea at the Spring Plantation Ramble. This was no simple heart attack—Mark was poisoned. Eager to help out Mark's grieving widow, tea shop proprietress and gumshoe Theodosia Browning offers to collect his belongings from his office. There, she discovers that a surprising number of co-workers, including a spurned lover and a professional rival, had reason to want Mark dead. Yet again, Childs proves herself skilled at local color, serving up cunning portraits of Southern society and delectable descriptions of dishes like cheesy crab casserole (recipe included). (Mar.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0425213862
• ISBN 13: 9780425213865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304