The teaberry strangler

The teaberry strangler

Laura Childs

Large print - 2010

After a particularly successful evening of sales, Charleston's Theodosia Browning discovers the body of map store owner Daria. Locals have shown interest in buying her shop--but enough to kill? Plus there's been a customer hell-bent on acquiring a not-for-sale map. Most alarming of all theories, however, is Detective Tidwell's: the killer mistook Daria for Theodosia. And if that theory holds, the killer's work isn't done.

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Subjects
Browning, Theodosia (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women detectives > South Carolina > Charleston > Fiction.
Map dealers > Crimes against > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
City and town life > South Carolina > Charleston > Fiction.
Tearooms > Fiction.
Tea trade > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Large type books.
Charleston (S.C.) > Fiction.
Published
Waterville, Me. : Wheeler Pub 2010.
Language
English
Main Author
Laura Childs (-)
Edition
Large print ed
Physical Description
445 p. (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781410425003
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Set in Charleston, S.C., Childs's tepid 11th tea-themed puzzler (after 2009's Oolong Dead) offers an elegant heroine in her 30s who some readers may feel too often acts like an old lady. One rainy March evening, while walking along a cobblestone alley, Theodosia Browning, the proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, spots Daria Shand, her good friend and owner of a neighboring shop, in a "nasty struggle" with an unknown assailant. The attacker flees at Theodosia's approach, leaving Daria dead in the alley. A minty fragrance Theodosia detects at the crime scene may provide a useful clue in her informal murder investigation. Childs supplies plenty of touristy asides as well as savory details about teas and gourmet goodies, if at the expense of the action. The continuing animosity between police detective Burt Tidwell and Theodosia adds some tension, but the mystery never quite catches fire as it simmers to a close. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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