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| View Larger Image | Chamomile Mourning (A Tea Shop Mystery) | Paperbackby Laura Childs (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Berkley | | Page Count: | 320 Pages | | Publication Date: | March 07, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 86,657th |
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FEATURES | - ISBN13: 9780425206188
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Product Description
At Charleston's Spoleto Festival, Theodosia Browning's Poet's Tea is forced indoors by rain--which is the least of her problems after a local auction house owner plummets from the balcony to his death. With a full kettle of suspects, Theodosia finds herself chasing a criminal who plans on showing her just how dangerous it is to stick her sensitive nose where it doesn't belong. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 26 reviews)
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Chamomile Mourning by Mary K. Lewis (costa mesa Ca. USA)  5 Stars
September 12, 2009
Wonderful book in a series of really fun to read books. Anyone who loves to go to Tea should read this fun story
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To much extra unnecessary info by Lee Krause (Everett, WA United States)  1 Stars
July 18, 2009
I have read all of the books in this series up to this and I am almost finished with this book. The stories are ok but there is too much extra unnecessary info. The author is obsessed with tea I like tea and a few tea facts are fine but there is too much She also is living in the 60s ladies do not wear gloves except to keep their hands warm in the winter. There was a reference summer gloves. I am no expert on Charlston SC but I have been there many time during the 24 years I spent living in NC I have been up and down the carolinas coast and there are many in accuracies about Charlston and the surounding areas its very frustrating. When I took writing classes in school I was always told to write about what you know and when you dont do your research
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Pleasant read! by Marjorie Teske  4 Stars
February 12, 2009
This is my first time of reading Laura Child's work. I enjoyed it - no foul language, nothing to make me cringe in embarassment either! Good plot and I enjoyed the recipes too! Will enjoy reading more of her books.
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tea mystery 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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Rigor Mortis by R. Chaffey (Chicago)  3 Stars
October 05, 2008
"Chamomile Mourning" is the sixth installment in Laura Child's Tea Shop Mystery series. While Childs has certainly created a unique blend of mystery and recipe in her series, no improvements have been made in the way she approaches her subject matter. While some have praised this as the strongest installment in the series, it is littered with amateur mistakes that slow down the plot and aggravate the reader.
As usual, Theodosia Browning, owner of the Indigo Tea Shop, finds herself sniffing out clues in another murder mystery. When the body of Roger Crispin falls onto her tea table during the annual Spoletto arts festival, Theodosia instantly sets out to find his killer and clear a newfound friend from a charge of murder. Intermingled with Theodosia's snopping efforts are the usual scenes at the tea shop, which make one want to eat more than read, and relationship problems with her long-time beau. And also as usual, Theodosia manages to solve the crime ahead of the police, putting herself in danger as she always does. Yet the denouement is rather rushed and incredible, offering a too quick wrap-up to the wayward clues that came before.
The Tea Shop Mystery series offers readers a nice escape, offering tea lovers a chance to learn more about tea, and mystery-lovers a chance to solve quaint and rather simple yarns. But what is maddening about the series is that Childs' is not a good writer, and has not improved the stiffness of her descriptions. Her stories are littered with mistakes such as spelling errors, but "Chamomile Mourning" abounds in sentence fragments that are just grammatical errors, not stylistic choices in writing. I cannot believe an editor allowed it to be published in this manner. While I may read another Tea Shop Mystery, I definitely will not be expecting much from the novel.
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| The Jasmine Moon Murder (A Tea Shop Mystery)
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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.
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| Blood Orange Brewing (A Tea Shop Mystery)
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When social darling Delaine Dish throws a lavish benefit for the restoration of a run-down Victorian home, Theodosia Browning donates tea and treats from her Indigo Tea Shop. But the grand unveiling of Theo's spread proves a gruesome scene when a beloved local politico falls dead with a jagged piece of metal in his neck. Anyone at the event could be the culprit, but the police have few leads-and no suspects. Try as she might, Theodosia can't help but wonder who the murderer is. But her...
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| Shades of Earl Grey (A Tea Shop Mystery)
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Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is finally invited to a social event that she doesn't have to cater-but trouble is brewing at the engagement soiree of the season...
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| The English Breakfast Murder (A Tea Shop Mystery)
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It is a truly exhilarating experience for Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning-helping Charleston's Sea Turtle Protection League shepherd hundreds of tiny green loggerheads safely into the sea. But just as she's about to celebrate all her hard work, she spots a dead body bobbing in the waves. Now it's up to Theo to get to the bottom of the murder before the culprit's greed stirs him to kill again.
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| Gunpowder Green (A Tea Shop Mystery)
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In this second Tea Shop Mystery, shop owner Theodosia Browning knows that something's brewing in the high society of Charleston: murder.
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