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Series purists, stop reading now!
OK, now that they're gone, I can tell the rest of you that this is the eighth book in a mystery series set in a tearoom in Charleston, S.C. I read the first three a few years ago, but that was all my library had at the time. Recently they got some more, but this was
These are entertaining reads that don't demand much brainpower. I enjoy the descriptions of tea and the food they serve alongside it, enough to overlook the rather two-dimensional characters and the somewhat unbelievable mysteries. And neither of those faults would be improved by reading them in order, as far as I can tell. SO THERE.
OK, now that they're gone, I can tell the rest of you that this is the eighth book in a mystery series set in a tearoom in Charleston, S.C. I read the first three a few years ago, but that was all my library had at the time. Recently they got some more, but this was
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the next in the series that was available. So, I just skipped Nos. 4-7. I KNOW.These are entertaining reads that don't demand much brainpower. I enjoy the descriptions of tea and the food they serve alongside it, enough to overlook the rather two-dimensional characters and the somewhat unbelievable mysteries. And neither of those faults would be improved by reading them in order, as far as I can tell. SO THERE.
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML: Although Theodosia Browning barely knows a Phalinopsis from a Bog Rose, she still enjoys Charleston's Spring Plantation Ramble, especially since she can promote her Indigo Tea Shop and her latest concoction, Dragonwell Sweet Tea. But the party's over when Mark Congdon wins a bid for a rare orchid-and promptly dies. It looks like a simple heart attack, but Theo suspects that someone purposely turned his green thumb blue..
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English
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2007