Pekoe Most Poison by Laura Childs

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 author of the Tea Shop Mysteries, the Cackleberry Club Mysteries, and the Scrapbooking Mysteries, which have all been New York Times bestsellers. She is an avid tea drinker, scrapbooker, and dog lover, and she and her professor husband, Dr. Bob, travel to China and Japan frequently. She was a Clio Award-winning advertisement writer and the head of her own marketing agency in the past.

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ISBN 13	9780425281697
ISBN 10	0425281698
Title	Pekoe Most Poison
Author	Laura Childs
Series	Tea Shop Mystery Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2018-02-06
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.