Pekoe Most Poison by Laura Childs
In the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs, Theodosia Browning attends a Rat Tea, where the mice will play.at murder.When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston s most prominent hostesses, to a Rat Tea, she is understandably intrigued. As servers dressed in rodent costumes and wearing white gloves offer elegant finger sandwiches and fine teas, Theo learns these parties date back to early twentieth-century Charleston, where the cream of society would sponsor so-called rat teas to promote city rodent control and better public health.
But this party goes from odd to chaotic when a fire starts at one of the tables and Doreen s entrepreneur husband suddenly goes into convulsions and drops dead. Has his favorite orange pekoe tea been poisoned? Theo smells a rat.
The distraught Doreen soon engages Theo to pursue a discreet inquiry into who might have murdered her husband. As Theo and her tea sommelier review the guest list for suspects, they soon find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
INCLUDES RECIPES AND TEA TIME TIPS
Laura Childs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tea Shop Mysteries (Sweet Tea Revenge, Agony of the Leaves, Scones & Bones), the Scrapbooking Mysteries (Gilt Trip, Postcards from the Dead), and the Cackleberry Club Mysteries (Stake & Eggs, Eggs Benedict Arnold, Eggs in Purgatory). She is a consummate tea drinker, scrapbooker, and dog lover, and travels frequently to China and Japan with Dr. Bob, her professor husband. In her past life she was a Clio Award winning advertising writer and CEO of her own marketing firm.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780425281680 |
| ISBN 10 | 042528168X |
| Title | Pekoe Most Poison |
| Author | Laura Childs |
| Series | Tea Shop Mystery Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2017-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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