Oolong Dead (Tea Shop Series #10) by Laura Childs
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- Pub. Date: March 2009
- 336pp
- Sales Rank: 10,955
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: March 2009
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Hardcover, 336pp
- Sales Rank: 10,955
- Series: Tea Shop Series, #10
- ISBN-13: 9780425225998
- ISBN: 0425225992
Synopsis
Delicious recipes, tea-time tips, opera, and murder-in a national bestselling mystery series that's "quickly become a favorite of readers."(Mystery Reader)
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? Theodosia's investigation takes her from the Lowcountry thicket to the backstage maze of a darkened theater where a maestro of murder waits for the next cue. All proving that when it comes to high drama, Theodosia can give Verdi a run for his money.
Publishers Weekly
At the start of Childs's soothing 10th Tea Shop mystery (after 2008's The Silver Needle Murder), Indigo Tea Shop proprietor Theodosia Browning and her horse, Captain Harley, encounter murder most unsavory during the annual Charleston Point-to-Point Race. Shortly after clearing a jump, they're spooked by encountering the corpse of Abby Davis, an evening TV news anchor, who's been shot through the forehead. In parallel with CPD Det. Burt Tidwell, Theodosia pursues her own investigation, prompted by attorney Jory Davis, the victim's brother and Theodosia's ex-boyfriend. Prime suspects include anchorman Webster Hall, who lost his job to Abby, and Abby's husband, who may have known she was having an affair. As usual, Childs's plot simmers slowly while Theodosia's dogged yet always elegant sleuthing is as satisfying as sipping a cup of jade oolong. (Mar.)
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In Laura Childs's past life, she was a Clio Award-winning advertising writer and CEO of her own marketing firm.
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too much of the sameby Anonymous
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September 19, 2009: I have adored these books in the past...they are well written, descriptive and contain characters one can really get to know. However, after reading all of these books, I am really hoping the author will now change up her "formula" a bit in the crime part. Her formula consists of characters in the tea shop doing their daily thing; a citizen gets murdered..the tea shop owner gets involved, sets up suspicion for several people and then the "least suspected person" actually kills the person...except, one always figures out way ahead "whodunit" and, there is a ridiculous scene in EVERY book...basically the same..at the end, the shop owner chases the criminal, going off alone, getting beaten, buried, or almost murdered just to be rescued in time. I now skip all that stuff..same scene, different place...and I wonder why in the world, the author keeps having the tea owner run off alone in the dark chasing criminals OVER AND OVER...this character sure doesn't "learn from experience"..since we are dealing with the same characters in every book doing the same things, we already KNOW what is going to happen in every single book......it is easy to figure out who the killer is, because the set up is the same every time. I now find I don't really read these for the mystery part, but for just the fun of the tea shop and Charleston. The mystery part is so "stock", that it just gets in the way now...always the SAME. I may have read my last one, unless there is some kind of surprise or intrigue or development of the characters.. they are boring now...and, that makes me VERY SAD !!!!
Wonderful addition to the seriesby Cherylpm
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September 07, 2009: I really enjoyed this book as well as the complete series.
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