num_pages: 336
description:  Tea maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.It is the week before Halloween and Theodosia Browning proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop and her tea sommelier Drayton are ghosting through the dusk of a cool Charleston evening on their way to the old Bouchard Mansion. Known as the Gray Ghost this dilapidated place was recently bequeathed to the Heritage Society and tonight heralds the grand opening of their literary and historical themed haunted house.Though Timothy Neville the patriarch of the Heritage Society is not thrilled with the fund-raising idea it is the perfect venue for his grandniece Willow French to sign copies of her new book Carolina Crimes &amp; Creepers.But amid a parade of characters dressed as Edgar Allan Poe Lady Macbeth and the Headless Horseman Willow's body is suddenly tossed from the third-floor tower room and left to dangle at the end of a rope. Police come screaming in and Theodosia's boyfriend Detective Pete Riley is sent to Willow's apartment to investigate. But minutes later he is shot and wounded by a shadowy intruder.Timothy begs Theodosia to investigate and shaken by Riley's assault she readily agrees. Now she questions members of the Heritage Society and a man who claims the mansion is rightfully his as well as Willow's book publisher and her fianc all while hosting a Sherlock Holmes tea and catering several others.But the Gray Ghost holds many secrets as do several other key suspects while this murder mystery plays out on the eve of Halloween.INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES AND TEA TIME TIPS!
language: English
title: Haunted Hibiscus
publisher: Berkley Books