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Summary: Promoting her latest blend from within her Charleston tea shop throughout a blooming southern spring season, Theodosia Browning suspects foul play when broker Mark Congdon promptly dies after winning a bid for a rare monkey-face orchid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2007
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Summary: "An evening's work deciding on the class schedule for her scrapbooking shop has put Carmela in the mood to kick up her heels. But after some strange noises draw her into Oddities , the neighboring antiques shop, Carmela's night is abruptly put on hold when a bloody body falls out of a curio cabinet --and into her arms. While shop owner Marcus Joubert was known for being an eccentric with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2014
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Summary: When her friend Ava hires a sexy tarot reader to entertain during a Halloween bash at her New Orleans scrapbooking store, Carmela never expected to stumble upon the corpse of a beautiful model or be attacked herself on the way home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIChilds, Laura.
Summary: New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand is hosting a late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session--when a neighboring antique-shop owner winds up murdered in the alley. Now, the scrapbooking expert must rearrange the jumble of clues and pick out the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Fife Lake
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Summary: After postcards signed by a murdered reporter begin showing up at her store, scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand searches for the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2012
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Summary: 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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Summary: "Social darling Delaine Dish is throwing a lavish Candlelight Concert to raise funds for a run-down Victorian home donated to the Heritage Society - and Theodosia Browning is more than happy to help out with tea and tasty treats from the Indigo Tea Shop. The partygoers are a "who's who" of Charleston politics, industry, and high society, and Delaine plans to hit them all up for money to restore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIChilds, Laura.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHIChilds, Laura.
Summary: It's Halloween in New Orleans. Ava and Carmela overhear an argument between Jekyl Hardy and Brett Fowler just minutes before they find Fowler's dead body. After another victim is discovered--who also had an unfriendly relationship with Jekyl--Carmela is convinced someone is framing her friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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Summary: In the wake of hurricane Katrina, scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand struggles to put her business and her relationship with her ex-husband Shamus back together, a goal undermined by the kidnapping of Shamus from their home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2006
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2017
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Summary: Tea shop owner and bridesmaid Theodosia Browning investigates when the groom is literally late on the couples' big day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2013
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Summary: Theodesia discovers the body of her ex-boyfriend while catering an event at the Charleston Aquarium and begins an investigation despite the belief of emergency responders that his death was an accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2012
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Summary: After volunteering with Charleston's Sea Turtle Protection League, tea shop owner Theodosia Browning discovers the dead body of local art dealer Harper Fisk and searches to find the murderer before he can strike again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2003
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Summary: Normally Theodosia wouldn't attend a black tie affair for all the tea in China. But she can hardly say no to her hunky, handsome boyfriend, Max, who directs public relations for the Gibbes Museum in Charleston. Max has organized an amazing gala opening for an exhibit of a genuine eighteenth century Chinese teahouse, and the creme de la creme of Charleston society is invited. In the exotic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2015
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Summary: While riding her horse in a race through the South Carolina Lowcountry, Theodosia Browning finds her arch nemesis, Abby Davis, dead. What's more, the victim's brother is Theodosia's old flame. Who'd have guessed they'd be reunited through cold-blooded murder?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkeley Pub. Group 2009
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Summary: Theodosia Browning and the staff of the Indigo Tea Shop are feeling the heat, and not just because it's August. The Charleston Film Festival has brought them a busy week of catering jobs, including the opening night gala at the historic Belvedere Theatre. Theo notices that the atmosphere backstage appears to be tense. Then, famous director Jordan Cole is shot on his way to the podium, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2008
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Summary: Carmela and Ava delve into the murder of a member of their scrapbooking circle who was found in church beside a smashed St. Sebastien statue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Putnam Inc 2001
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Summary: Jekyl Hardy is hosting a Mardi Gras party in his French Quarter apartment, amid Zydeco rhythms and popping champagne corks. On a wild night like this, anything can happen. The guests--including scrapbook-store owner Carmela Bertrand--never imagine it will be murder. But as the evening progresses, Jekyl's neighbor, float designer Archie Baudier, is found on the balcony choked to death with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIChilds, Laura.
Summary: "Louisiana businessman Jerry Earl Leland served only a fraction of his five-year sentence for white-collar crime, thanks to some political connections and a few greased palms. But he won't have long to enjoy his freedom... After Jerry Earl's early release, his wife, Margo--a much-married Garden District doyenne--throws an extravagant Get Out of Jail Free Party, complete with a Zydeco band,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2003
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Summary: Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is lured into attending the Heritage Society's "Pirates and Plunder" soiree. But it's an antique diamond skull ring that gets plundered by someone who murders a history intern in the process. Theodosia knows she'll have to whet her investigative skills to find the killer among a raft of suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011