I have just recently discovered cozy mysteries with the Agatha Raisin books. This is the first American one ive read and i loved it. It was nice and light and i didnt have a clue who the killer was until right at the end. I also learned quite a bit about tea ;0).

Sent to yorkshire-lass as part of the Bookcrossing wishlist tag game

Thank you! I will add it to my massive TBR pile and will get to it as soon as I can.

A nice genteel read, no blood and gore in sight! I enjoyed it and will be reading more by this author, these books make a nice change fromthe more intense crime novels I usually read.

This is no its way to Kirstykat as part of the Wishlist Tag Game - Paralle Thread. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Gratefully received as part of the 'Wish List' Tag Game by Yorkshire-Lass. Shall enjoy this with a nice cup of tea! :)

I found it a bit slow to begin with and lots of things worked out 'very well' but on the whole a lovely, light read. I would read this author again.

This copy is ready to move on!

Reserved for Rainbow3 as part of an Exchange/Trade

Finally Found this and have posted it on today. Enjoy!!! :)

Be enjoyed and travel well! :)

kirstykat greetings! This feels like a RABCK book surprise as I quite forgot about it's being due me and am entirely grateful you remembered!!! Many thanks! I already have its next reader in mind!

Death by Darjeeling arrived on Saturday morning, I unwrapped it then fled to help at a fund-raiser in my local park – forgetting on my return to make a 'catch' JE on it, apologies. At the event I was able to walk around with a bag of bookcrossing books and sixteen people chose a book to take off travelling. Yeah, a jolly wee bookcrossing success!
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Another reason to be thrilled about receiving this is that it is the first book in the series. Always good to read the first in a series to get a better flavour of its intent, this then should be interesting. To date I have only read the ninth in series The Silver Needle Murder.

Haven't read this yet, but I want to read it before Christmas and give it as a Not So Secret Father Christmas Surprise Release to another bookcrosser.
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DEATH BY DARJEELING: TEA SHOP MYSTERIES by LAURA CHILDS (2001)
ISBN: 978-0-425017945-1

Cover: First in the new series – recipe included!
A TEA SHOP MYSTERY
"Tea lovers, mystery lovers, [this] is for you." - Susan Wittig Albert

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 tea for two hundred or so at the annual historic homes garden party... And Theodosia, as event caterer, is busy serving steaming teas and blackberry scones while guests sing her praises. But the sweet smell of success turns to suspense when an esteemed guest is found dead - his hand clutching an empty teacup. All eyes are on Theo... who is now trying desperately to save her reputation and track down the real killer. If only she can make sense of it all - before someone else takes their last sip...
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I'll fill you in a bit further once I've read it, but I can clear up that the recipe here is not the one for blackberry scones.

Change of plan didn't get this read before Christmas as I had so many other bookcrossing books I wanted to read before gifting so...saving it up for...plan C? [Watch this space.]

Meanwhile, I’m as far as beginning chapter eight of Death by Darjeeling and already am firmly of the opinion this has more going for it than The Silver Needle Murder [ninth in this series] which I did enjoy but felt was lacking in some background detail, as, I suspect, it too readily assumed one had read the preceding novels.

On completion I am pleased to have read this as it was enjoyable and gives a really great grounding to the series. That shall be useful as I stumble across more of these in the future. Curiously, I divined fairly early the likely murderer, curiously, as I am usually fairly surprised at the unveiling. As a confirmed fan of the why-done-it rather than the who-done-it though I have my mind on the story-line I’m not usually determining who the murderer may be, rather I am enjoying feeling mystery unfold and calculating if the characters motivations ring true.

There’s something opaque about the writing, perhaps about the characters, that frustrates me though. Still cosy mystery novels are an appealing comfort read and the fact there was an edge to this added to my curiosity. Charleston and its charms have been delightful to read about and not being a big tea drinker I’ve found the information on tea’s enough to remind me I like some of them, occasionally… Sticking to hot chocolate just now though as it so suits this chilly, chilly cold weather.

To: Flutterbies9 for NSSEBS 2013 Event – with sincere apologies as I’ve been unwell and missed the post office until now, see below. (Oops book added to parcel but forgot I’d meant - accommodating for the cost of its weight - to add it to MrFlutteribes9 packet – am happy its posted at last though!)

Posted at: Post Office, 20 Elm Row, Edinburgh, Lothian EH7 4AA - Date & Time: Thu 28 Mar 2013 13:11
Session ID: 1-388795 - Dest: UK (EU) - Quantity: 1 - Weight: 1.204 - Standard Pcl

Having read a later one of these in the series I am curious to go back to the beginning and read this, the first one of the series.

This will immediately join tbr2 (the books I read for light relief between the book club reads and more serious fiction) - though I sus[pect it may be read quite quickly!

Many thanks for this.

Like rainbow3, I've read The Silver Needle book - well, actually rainbow3 gave it to me after she read it!! This one I read well out of sync but I needed an easy reading book after my previous one and this was sitting so enticingly on the top of tbr.
It was a pleasant diversion to go back to the first book in the series. I recognised the gentle, though insistent pull of the plot lines taking the reader through the book, however, I'm afraid I guessed this killer early on and was awaiting the denouement long before it got there. Having read a later one in the series I can see how the lives of the characters in the Indigo Tea Room evolved and sense how they were built in the series.

Yes, I agree it is a cozy mystery and very genteel with no blood or gore in sight and, for me also, a change from the more intense crime novels or literature I normally read. The recipe is quite fun too and very appropriate for Easter - though I do admit to doing a version of this recipe when I was teenage (so quite a few years ago).

To go on available for the moment as I have no set plans for this.

It appears that this originally came out of a book box and it is now going away in another book box in exchange for another in the Laura Childs series!

Thanks.

The book box has done its rounds & is now home with me....thanks!

Time to find another reader.....left on a windowsill at the window to Wild Lindisfarne


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