A totally fluffy book in Laura Childs' "
Tea Shop Mysteries" series, as an antidote to reading The Goldfinch. I had read one other book in the series and love the descriptions of the city of Charleston, SC--the architecture and social customs in particular--as well as her lavish descriptions of tea and food. There are always several scrumptious sounding recipes included in the book, much like Diane Mott Davidson's books about caterer Goldy Schulz. In addition to running the Indigo Tea Shop, Theodosia Browning is also an amateur sleuth. She agrees to casually look into things when the husband of Pookie Wilkes is murdered at a candlelight concert to raise money for the Heritage Foundation. Theo stumbles into a secret room in the house where the murder happens, discovers the murder weapon came from the inventory of the Heritage Society, and show up on the scene of a second murder just minutes after the murderer has fled. Apparently someone thinks Theo is getting too close and they dognap her beloved Earl Grey, which only drives Theo to greater efforts to figure out what is going on. The bad guys are caught, Earl Grey is rescued, and lives return to normal.
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