Laura Childs

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  • Bibliography:
    54 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2001
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Cackleberry Club Mystery

1 - Eggs in Purgatory (Dec-2008)
2 - Eggs Benedict Arnold (Dec-2009)
3 - Bedeviled Eggs (Dec-2010)
4 - Stake & Eggs (Nov-2012)
5 - Eggs in a Casket (Jan-2014)
6 - Scorched Eggs (Dec-2014)
7 - Egg Drop Dead (Dec-2016)
8 - Eggs on Ice (Dec-2018)
9 - Egg Shooters (Nov-2020)

A Scrapbooking Mystery

1 - Keepsake Crimes (May-2003)
2 - Photo Finished (Jan-2004)
3 - Bound for Murder (Nov-2004)
4 - Motif for Murder (Sep-2006)
5 - Frill Kill (Oct-2007)
6 - Death Swatch (Sep-2008)
7 - Tragic Magic (Oct-2009)
8 - Fiber & Brimstone (Oct-2010)
9 - Skeleton Letters (Oct-2011)
10 - Postcards from the Dead (Oct-2012)
11 - Gilt Trip (Oct-2013)
12 - Gossamer Ghost (Oct-2014)
13 - Parchment and Old Lace (Oct-2015)
14 - Crepe Factor (Oct-2016)
15 - Glitter Bomb (Oct-2018)
16 - Mumbo Gumbo Murder (Oct-2019)

A Tea Shop Mystery

1 - Death by Darjeeling (May-2001)
2 - Gunpowder Green (Mar-2002)
3 - Shades of Earl Grey (Jan-2003)
4 - English Breakfast Murder (Aug-2003)
5 - The Jasmine Moon Murder (Sep-2004)
6 - Chamomile Mourning (May-2005)
7 - Blood Orange Brewing (Apr-2006)
8 - Dragonwell Dead (Mar-2007)
9 - The Silver Needle Murder (Mar-2008)
10 - Oolong Dead (Mar-2009)
11 - The Teaberry Strangler (Mar-2010)
12 - Scones & Bones (Mar-2011)
13 - Agony of the Leaves (Mar-2012)
14 - Sweet Tea Revenge (Mar-2013)
15 - Steeped in Evil (Mar-2014)
16 - Ming Tea Murder (May-2015)
17 - Devonshire Scream (Mar-2016)
18 - Pekoe Most Poison (Mar-2017)
19 - Plum Tea Crazy (Mar-2018)
20 - Broken Bone China (Mar-2019)
21 - Lavender Blue Murder (Mar-2020)
22 - Haunted Hibiscus (Mar-2021)
23 - Twisted Tea Christmas (Oct-2021)
24 - A Dark and Stormy Tea (Aug-2022)
25 - Lemon Curd Killer (Mar-2023)
26 - Honey Drop Dead (Aug-2023)
27 - Murder in the Tea Leaves (Mar-2024)
28 - Peach Tea Smash (Aug-2024)
29 - High Tea and Misdemeanors (Mar-2025)

Book List in Order: 54 titles

  • Death by Darjeeling

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 1

    Meet Theodosia Browning, owner of Charleston's beloved Indigo Tea Shop. Patrons love her blend of delicious tea tastings and southern hospitality. And Theo enjoys the full-bodied flavor of a town steeped in history -- and mystery... It's t...

  • Gunpowder Green

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 2

    Tea shop owner Theodosia Browning knows that something's brewing in the high society of Charleston -- something other than her newest tea... The Indigo Tea Shop, Charleston's favorite spot of tea, has just come out with its latest flavor: ...

  • Shades of Earl Grey

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 3

    Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is finally invited to a social event that she doesn't have to cater -- but there's more than champagne bubbling... Theo is mingling with the cream of Charleston society at the engagement soiree of t...

  • Keepsake Crimes

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 1

    From Laura Childs, author of the popular Tea Shop Mysteries, comes scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand, who delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But among her clients keepsakes she finds a tip o...

  • English Breakfast Murder

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 4

    Indgo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is about to embark on her first turtle crawl -- and her latest murder investigation... It is a truly exhilarating experience for Theo -- helping Charleston's Sea Turtle Protection League shepherd hundred...

  • Photo Finished

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 2

    From Laura Childs, author of the popular Tea Shop Mysteries, comes scrapbooking shop owner Carmelo Bertrand, who delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But when a neighbor is wiped out of the picture, ...

  • The Jasmine Moon Murder

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 5

    Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning and her staff are catering an unusual Charleston society benefit -- a "Ghost Crawl" through the spooky grounds of the historic Jasmine Cemetery. Sadly, the doctor who thought up the event doesn't l...

  • Bound for Murder

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 3

    From Laura Childs, author of the popular Tea Shop Mysteries, comes scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand, who delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But when a fiance winds up dead before the "I...

  • Chamomile Mourning

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 6

    Charleston, South Carolina, is alive with music, dancing, and the arts as the Spoleto festival gets underway. But Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning feels far from festive when the inaugural Poet's Tea is forced into one of the Heritage Soc...



  • Blood Orange Brewing

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 7

    When social darling Delaine Dish throws a lavish benefit for the restoration of a run-down Victorian home, Theodosia Browning donates tea and treats from her Indigo Tea Shop. But the grand unveiling of Theo's spread proves a gruesome scene when a bel...

  • Motif for Murder

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 4

    From Laura Childs, author of the popular Tea Shop Mysteries, comes scrapbooking-shop owner Carmela Bertrand, who delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But when her artistic tribute to a murdered man p...

  • Dragonwell Dead

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 8

    Each spring, Charleston's upper crust opens their sprawling gardens to the public for the Spring Plantation Ramble, an occasion for flower shows, rare-plant auctions, and contagious spring fever. Although Theodosia Browning barely knows a Phalaen...

  • Frill Kill

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 5

    From Laura Childs, bestselling author of the Tea Shop Mysteries, comes Carmela Bertrand -- a New Orleans shop owner who can turn any scrapbook into a treasure and put together the pieces of an unsolved murder... With Halloween barely a week away, ...

  • The Silver Needle Murder

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 9

    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 -- and first up is the opening night gala at the historic Belve...

  • Death Swatch

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 6

    New Orleans knows how to party, and Mardi Gras is living proof. But when murder is added to this colorful collage, scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand starts fearing for her life... Amid zydeco rhythms and popping champagne corks, Jekyl Hard...

  • Eggs in Purgatory

    A Cackleberry Club Mystery - 1

    The author of the Scrapbooking and Tea Shop mysteries cooks up a delicious new series with friendship, murder, and one spectacular breakfast after another. Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lost their husbands but found independence -- and, in each other, ...

  • Oolong Dead

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 10

    Theodosia Browning has been asked to host a luncheon to benefit the Charleston Opera Society, which is throwing a Verdi-themed Masked Ball. She certainly has a lot on her mind -- especially after she finds the dead body of her arch nemesis, Abby Davi...

  • Tragic Magic

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 7

    With a cunning killer in a haunted house, one crafty sleuth doesn't stand a ghost of a chance... Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine scrap-booking shop, and her best friend Ava Gruiex, owner of Juju Voodoo, have a big project ahead of them. Mel...

  • Eggs Benedict Arnold

    A Cackleberry Club Mystery - 2

    The author of the Scrapbooking and Tea Shop mysteries cooks up another delicious mystery featuring friendship, murder, and one spectacular breakfast after another. Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lost their husbands but found independence -- and, in each ot...



  • The Teaberry Strangler

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 11

    The narrow cobblestone alleys of Charleston are bustling with shoppers looking for bargains on antiques, heaping bowls of crab chowder -- and of course Theodosia Browning's delicious teas. But when the clock strikes ten, the alleys clear, except for ...

  • Fiber & Brimstone

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 8

    With its history of spooky folklore, New Orleans offers the perfect atmosphere for Halloween. But when real corpses start turning up, scrappy sleuth Carmela Bertrand dresses up as a detective in time for the holiday. With the help of her best frie...

  • Bedeviled Eggs

    A Cackleberry Club Mystery - 3

    The New York Times bestselling Cackleberry Club Mysteries serve up another delicious whodunit featuring friendship, murder, and one spectacular breakfast after another. After losing their husbands, Suzanne, Toni, and Petra bonded, gaining a newfound...

  • Scones & Bones

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 12

    A search for a missing treasure stirs up the waters of the Charleston social set in the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Teaberry Strangler. Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is lured into attending the Heritag...

  • Skeleton Letters

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 9

    Is nothing sacred? The last thing Carmela Bertrand and her friend Ava expected to bear witness to in St. Tristan's Church was a crime. But now a beloved member of their scrapbooking circle lies lifeless next to a smashed statue of St. Sebastien-and a...

  • Agony of the Leaves

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 13

    In the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Scones and Bones, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning finds herself in hot water when a body surfaces at the grand opening of Charleston's Neptune Aquarium... The opening o...

  • Postcards from the Dead

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 10

    New Orleans is in the throes of another fantastic Mardi Gras celebration when the party gets crashed by a murderer. Now a scrapbooking sleuth is going to have to stop the partying to catch the killer… There’s a parade rolling through the hist...

  • Stake & Eggs

    A Cackleberry Club Mystery - 4

    New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs presents the best way to start your day -- with a hearty breakfast and a side of hard-boiled murder. Suzanne, Toni, and Petra found a second life after losing their husbands -- opening their own succe...

  • Sweet Tea Revenge

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 14

    In the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Agony of the Leaves, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning may always be a bridesmaid, never a bride, but this groom is never going to make it to the altar… Theodosia Brown...

  • Gilt Trip

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 11

    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'...



  • Eggs in a Casket

    A Cackleberry Club Mystery - 5

    The ladies of the Cackleberry Club are always ready to serve -- whether they’re cooking up breakfast or sniffing out a bad egg. While Petra handles the breakfast rush at the Cackleberry Club, the café’s other two owners, Suzanne and Toni, he...

  • Steeped in Evil

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 15

    Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning heads to a winery where she is about to learn the true meaning of terroir… Theodosia has never considered herself a wine connoisseur -- tea has always been…well, her cup of tea. But that doesn’t mean...

  • Gossamer Ghost

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 12

    Carmela Bertrand knows that Halloween in New Orleans means a week of rabble-rousing, costumed craziness -- and she can’t wait to get the party started. But when a local antiques dealer turns up dead, Carmela suddenly finds herself in a real-life da...

  • Scorched Eggs

    A Cackleberry Club Mystery - 6

    In Laura Childs’s New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni -- co-owners of the Cackleberry Club Café -- are equally good at serving up breakfast and serving up justice. This time they turn up the heat on a deadly firebug...

  • Ming Tea Murder

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 16

    It’s scones and scandal for Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning in the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Steeped in Evil… Normally Theodosia wouldn’t attend a black tie affair for all the tea in China. But she can har...

  • Parchment and Old Lace

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 13

    The New York Times bestselling author of Gossamer Ghost returns to the Big Easy and the historic Garden District, where scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand discovers a bride-to-be murdered in the legendary Lafayette Cemetery… Carmela couldn’...

  • Devonshire Scream

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 17

    The New York Times bestselling author of Ming Tea Murder serves up heists, homicides, and herbal blends in the latest in the Tea Shop mysteries. Catering a high-class trunk show at Heart's Desire Jewelry is a shining achievement for Theodosia and...

  • Crepe Factor

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 14

    The Winter Market in the French Quarter is in full swing, but murder isn’t taking a holiday in the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Parchment and Old Lace... The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bert...

  • Egg Drop Dead

    A Cackleberry Club Mystery - 7

    In Laura Childs’s New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni -- co-owners of the Cackleberry Club café -- are back to track down another bad egg… Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of...

  • Pekoe Most Poison

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 18

    In the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs, Theodosia Browning attends a “Rat Tea,” where the mice will play...at murder. When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one o...



  • Plum Tea Crazy

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 19

    Theodosia Browning investigates a Charleston steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. While viewing the harbor's Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow's w...

  • Glitter Bomb

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 15

    An exploding Mardi Gras float has got to be the strangest murder weapon scrappy sleuth Carmela Bertrand has ever encountered in this latest Scrapbooking Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author. It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans and scrapbo...

  • Eggs on Ice

    A Cackleberry Club Mystery - 8

    The Christmas season at the Cackleberry Club café is marred by murder in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling series. Some say that casting crusty attorney Allen Sharpe as Scrooge in the Kindred Players production of "A Christmas Car...

  • Broken Bone China

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 20

    Theodosia Browning serves tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are cate...

  • Mumbo Gumbo Murder

    A Scrapbooking Mystery - 16

    A shocking murder strikes a sour note during Jazz Fest in the latest New Orleans Scrapbooking Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. It's Jazz Fest in New Orleans, and the giant puppets from the Beastmaster Puppet Theatre...

  • Lavender Blue Murder

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 21

    Tea-Maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley are guests at a bird hunt styled in the precise m...

  • Egg Shooters

    A Cackleberry Club Mystery - 9

    Suzanne Dietz, co-owner of the Cackleberry Club Café, is visiting her fiancé, Dr. Sam Hazelet, when a masked gunman bursts into the emergency room. He shoots two people and would probably have done more damage had Suzanne not brained him with a the...

  • Haunted Hibiscus

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 22

    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...

  • Twisted Tea Christmas

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 23

    An attack on the host of a fancy tea party sends Theodosia Browning looking for answers in the latest entry in the New York Times bestselling series. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are catering a Victorian Chris...

  • A Dark and Stormy Tea

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 24

    A possible serial killer on the loose sends tea maven Theodosia Browning into a whirlwind of investigation in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series.It was a dark and stormy night, but that was the least of Theodosia Brownin...



  • Lemon Curd Killer

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 25

    High tea and high fashion turn deadly in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series.Tea shop entrepreneur Theodosia Browning has been tapped to host a fancy Limón Tea in a genuine lemon orchard as a rousing kickoff to Charlesto...

  • Honey Drop Dead

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 26

    The murder of a political bigwig at a Honey Bee Tea sends Theodosia Browning buzzing for answers in this latest installmentof the New York Times bestselling series.Theodosia’s Honey Bee Tea was an elegant affair set in Charleston’s new Petigru Pa...

  • Murder in the Tea Leaves

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 27

    It’s Lights, Action, Murder as tea maven Theodosia Browning scrambles for clues in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series.When Theodosia Browning reads the tea leaves on the set of the movie, Dark Fortunes, things go from ...

  • Peach Tea Smash

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 28

    Murder at an Alice in Wonderland"themed event threatens to send Theodosia Browning through the looking glass in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series.During the Mad Hatter Masquerade, a fundraiser hosted by the Friends of the O...

  • High Tea and Misdemeanors

    A Tea Shop Mystery - 29

    When a wedding is tragically averted by the death of the bridesmaid, Theodosia is determined to prove that it was murder in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series.Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Connell...

Award-Winning Books by Laura Childs

Postcards from the Dead
2012 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Amateur Sleuth


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laura Childs has published 54 books.

The next book by Laura Childs, High Tea and Misdemeanors, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Laura Childs, Death by Darjeeling, was published in May 2001.

Yes. Laura Childs has 3 series.
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