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| View Larger Image | The Jasmine Moon Murder (A Tea Shop Mystery) | Mass Market Paperbackby Laura Childs (Author)
| List Price: | $7.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Publisher: | Berkley | | Page Count: | 272 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 02, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 49,426th |
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FEATURES | - ISBN13: 9780425199862
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Product Description
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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 17 reviews)
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Never Got to Peruse it! by Barbara Shores (Birmingham, AL USA)  1 Stars
May 14, 2009
Unfortunately the company I ordered it from never sent it therefore I can't say I enjoyed reading it. All I can say is be more aware of who you order the books from.
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Murder and a good cup of tea by One from Circle of Friends (St. Paul, MN USA)  4 Stars
November 17, 2008
I really enjoy Laura Child's writing style. Enough detail to paint the scene but no overkill. Like the settings. Mysteries are believable and keep you guessing. A quick read and enjoyable. Prefer her tea novels to the scrapbooking novels.
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Charming for tea lovers by H. Robb (Germany) 4 Stars
July 10, 2008
This is not my first Laura Childs Tea Shop Mystery, although this is the first I have reviewed. I read the others years ago before I started reviewing on Amazon.
I find this particular one to be just as charming as the others. I cannot say the mystery was a big draw for me, but like other reviewers the tea information is wonderful. I also find the descriptions of the town to be lovely. It makes you want to take weekend getaway there, and visit Theodosia's tea shop.
One of my favorite characters is Drayton. I just find him so proper and old fashion that I hang on to his every word. I really love the old world, proper attitude that Laura Childs gives him. Some may find him stuffy, but to me he is definitely charming like the rest of the story.
Like I mentioned above I totally agree with some of the other reviewers who have remarked that the mystery could be taken out and the story would have been just as great with the descriptions, characters, and tea facts. I think this is the main reason why I read the books. I have never been a big mystery fan until I found the cozy mysteries anyway.
I recommend this highly for fans of the art of tea, and those who love the cozy, charming life.
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Tea-Died and Overdone by R. Chaffey (Chicago) 4 Stars
January 02, 2008
Laura Childs has certainly found a niche with her Tea Shop Mystery series. For fans of both mystery and tea alike can find something to enjoy in these fast-paced easy reads. Yet Childs and her amateur sleuth don't seem to be making many improvements as the series continues down its predictable path.
"The Jasmine Moon Murder", the fifth in the series, finds the amateur detective Theodosia Browning dealing with a murder that hits very close to home - the uncle of her boyfriend, Jory Davis. When Jory's uncle collapses at a local fundraising event, Theodosia finds a synringe on the ground nearby and knows that his death was not accidental. And although Theo promises the now familiar detective Burt Tidwell that she will keep her distance from the crime, she can't help but investigate when Jory asks her for help. And just like always, Theodosia's sleuthing winds up with her getting a little too close to the truth and making herself a target for the killer at large.
The Tea Shop Mystery series is a unique series, and it seems a shame that the recipes and information about tea are almost more entertaining than the mystery at hand. Childs will certainly never win any awards for writing, as she refuses to believe that her audience is as intelligent as she believes her own creation to be. Her writing is strewn with repeated descriptions mere pages apart and similes that land as softly as an atom bomb, (not to mention that this particular edition had an awful lot of typos in it). All in all, taking the bad with the good, these mysteries are a pleasant and thirst-inducing escape from reality.
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Well written - easy read - good ending by Candice Monroe (Shawnee, KS United States)  5 Stars
October 29, 2007
Larua Childs is becoming one of my favorite authors. Jasmine Moon Murder was well written with tidbits about tea and tea shops inserted well. There is a surprise ending but book has a great finish!
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