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Laura Childs is a pseudonym for Gerry Schmitt, former owner/CEO/Creative Director of a marketing/advertising firm in Minneapolis. She's putting that knowledge to good use for extensive self-promotion. Laura Childs is the author of the Tea Shop mysteries and also launched her first scrapbooking mystery, KEEPSAKE CRIMES in May 2003

Books

Scones & Bones
(A Tea Shop Mystery #12)
March 6, 2012


Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is lured into attending the Heritage Society’s “Pirates and Plunder” soiree. But it’s an antique diamond skull ring that gets plundered by someone who murders a history intern Read more...



Agony of the Leaves
(A Tea Shop Mystery #13)
March 6, 2012


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 Read more...



Skeleton Letters
(A Scrapbooking Mystery #9)
October 4, 2011


New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs sends her scrappy sleuths into New Orleans’ French Quarter.

Is nothing sacred? The last thing Carmela Bertrand and her friend Ava expected to bear witness to in Read more...



Fiber & Brimstone
(A Scrapbooking Mystery #8)
October 4, 2011


With its history of spooky folklore, New Orleans offers the perfect atmosphere for Halloween. Scrappy sleuth Carmela Bertrand is getting into the spirit by building a giant puppet for the French Quarter’s Halloween Read more...



The Teaberry Strangler
(Tea Shop Mystery #11)
March 1, 2011


Charleston is bustling with shoppers looking for antiques—and, of course, Theodosia Browning’s delicious teas. But when the cobblestone alleys clear, Theodosia finds the map store owner strangled to death. Many wanted her shop—but enough Read more...



Scones & Bones
(A Tea Shop Mystery #12)
March 1, 2011


Savor the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of The Teaberry Strangler.

Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is lured into attending the Heritage Society’s “Pirates and Plunder” soiree. But it’s Read more...



Bedeviled Eggs
(A Cackleberry Club Mystery #3)
December 7, 2010


The ladies at the Cackleberry Club café are busy preparing for Halloween. But someone’s jumped the gun on the tricks. As mayoral candidate Chuck Peebler leaves the café, he gets struck with a Read more...



Tragic Magic
(A Scrapbooking Mystery #7)
October 5, 2010


A New Orleans mansion is being converted into a haunted house for tourists and scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand has been enlisted to help. No sooner does the project begin than someone winds Read more...



Fiber & Brimstone
(A Scrapbooking Mystery #8)
October 5, 2010


It’s Halloween in New Orleans—and the festivities are going to be killer.

With the help of her best friend Ava, Carmela Bertrand is building a giant monster puppet for the Halloween Monsters Read more...



Oolong Dead
(A Tea Shop Mystery #9)
March 2, 2010


The latest Tea Shop mystery from the author of The Silver Needle Murder.

While hosting a lavish luncheon to benefit the Charleston Opera, Theodosia Browning finds her arch nemesis, Abby Davis, dead. What’s Read more...



The Teaberry Strangler
(A Tea Shop Mystery #10)
March 2, 2010


The bestselling author of Oolong Dead serves up an Old-World treat, spiced with a Sherlock Holmes-style murder mystery.

It was the Dickensian evening Theodosia Browning had been hoping for. Charleston shop-owners dressed in Read more...



Eggs Benedict Arnold
(A Cackleberry Club Mystery #2)
December 1, 2009


When Cackleberry Clubber Suzanne delivers a pie to funeral director Ozzie Driesden, she discovers him not working at the embalming table but lying on the embalming table. She barely has time to recognize Read more...



Death Swatch
(A Scrapbooking Mystery #6)
October 6, 2009


Amid Zydeco rhythms and popping champagne corks, scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand is having a wild night at a Mardi Gras party—until she finds a float designer murdered on a balcony. Read more...



Tragic Magic
(A Scrapbooking Mystery #7)
October 6, 2009


The next Scrapbooking mystery takes readers back to New Orleans, where there are spookies, foodies—and crafty killers.

Carmela, owner of Memory Mine scrapbook shop, and her best friend, owner of Juju Voodoo, have a Read more...



Oolong Dead
(A Tea Shop Mystery #9)
March 3, 2009


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 Read more...



The Silver Needle Murder
(A Tea Shop Mystery #9)
March 3, 2009


When the Charleston Film Festival opens with a bang—the real-life murder of a famous director—Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is pulled into an investigation as perilous as any big-screen thriller. Read more...



Eggs in Purgatory
(A Cackleberry Club Mystery #1)
December 2, 2008


Now Laura Childs is cracking a whole new case of murder in a brand new series—RECIPES INCLUDED.

Introducing the Cackleberry Club Mysteries...

Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lose their husbands but find independence when they Read more...



Frill Kill
(A Scrapbooking Mystery #6)
October 7, 2008


SCRAPBOOKING TIPS AND RECIPES INCLUDED.

For Carmela Bertrand, a New Orleans shop owner who can turn any scrapbook into a treasure, this Halloween will feature more than the usual scares. On her way Read more...



Death Swatch
(A Scrapbooking Mystery #6)
September 2, 2008


Murder comes to Mardi Gras! The sixth in the popular series—including scrapbooking tips.

Jekyl Hardy is hosting a Mardi Gras party in his French Quarter apartment, amid Zydeco rhythms and popping champagne corks. On Read more...



Dragonwell Dead
(A Tea Shop Mystery #8)
March 4, 2008


Although Theodosia Browning barely knows a Phalinopsis from a Bog Rose, she still enjoys Charleston's Spring Plantation Ramble, especially since she can promote her Indigo Tea Shop and her latest concoction, Dragonwell Sweet Read more...



The Silver Needle Murder
(A Tea Shop Mystery #9)
March 4, 2008


The national bestselling author of Dragonwell Dead returns with a mystery proving that the price of fame can be murderously steep.

The Charleston Film Festival has brought Theodosia Browning and the staff of the Read more...



Frill Kill
(A Scrapbooking Mystery #5)
October 2, 2007


This Halloween, the bestselling mystery author makes New Orleans even spookier than usual.

Carmela's friend Ava is having a Halloween bash at her scrapbooking store, and she hires a sexy Tarot reader named Giovanni Read more...



Motif for Murder
(A Scrapbooking Mystery #4)
October 2, 2007


After Hurricane Katrina, scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand has her hands full getting Memory Mine back in business—and her relationship with her ex-husband, Shamus, back on its feet. But then Shamus is kidnapped, Read more...



Dragonwell Dead
(A Teashop Mystery)
March 6, 2007


It's springtime in Charleston and just about every species of South Carolina's flora is in full and glorious bloom at the Spring Plantation Ramble. Once a year, the upper crust open their sprawling Read more...



Blood Orange Brewing
(A Teashop Mystery)
March 6, 2007


Social darling Delaine Dish is throwing a lavish Candlelight Concert to raise funds to restore a run-down Victorian home—and Theodosia Browning is more than happy to help out with tea and tasty treats Read more...



Motif for Murder
(A Scrapbooking Mystery)
September 5, 2006


In the terrible wake of Hurricane Katrina, scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand has her hands full getting Memory Mine back in business—and her relationship with her ex-husband, Shamus, back on its feet. But Read more...



Death By Design
(A Scrapbooking Mystery)
June 27, 2006


Death by Design brings the first three Scrapbooking mysteries together for the first time!

Keepsake Crimes introduces Carmela Bertrand and her booming scrapbooking shop, Memory Mine, on the fringe of New Orleans's French Quarter. Read more...



Blood Orange Brewing
(A Tea Shop Mystery)
April 4, 2006


Social darling Delaine Dish is throwing a lavish Candlelight Concert to raise funds to restore a run-down Victorian home—and Theodosia Browning is more than happy to help out with tea and tasty treats Read more...



Chamomile Mourning
(A Tea Shop Mystery)
March 7, 2006


A sweet serving of the bestselling Tea Shop mystery series

At Charleston's Spoleto festival, teashop owner Theodosia Browning is far from festive when the Poet's Tea is forced indoors by rain. But rain proves Read more...



The Jasmine Moon Murder
(A Tea Shop Mystery)
August 2, 2005


Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is catering a Charleston benefit, a "Ghost Crawl" through Jasmine Cemetery, when the organizer drops dead—and it looks like foul play. Theodosia stirs things up with her Read more...



Chamomile Mourning
(A Tea Shop Mystery)
May 1, 2005


At Charleston's Spoleto festival, teashop owner Theodosia Browning is far from festive when the Poet's Tea is forced indoors by rain. But rain proves to be the least of her problems after a Read more...



Bound for Murder
November 2, 2004


New Orleans scrap-booking shop owner Carmela Bertrand's pre- wedding party is overshadowed when a friend's intended groom is murdered. Asked by the heartbroken bride to look into the case, Carmela must Read more...



The Jasmine Moon Murder
September 7, 2004


Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is catering a Charleston benefit, a "Ghost Crawl" through Jasmine Cemetery. But the organizer, Dr. Davis, won't get to enjoy the festivities: during the Read more...



Photo Finished
January 6, 2004


New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand is hosting a late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session-when a neighboring antique-shop owner winds up murdered in the alley. Now, the scrapbooking expert Read more...



The English Breakfast Murder
August 1, 2003


Keepsake Crimes
May 6, 2003


Shades of Earl Grey
January 4, 2003


Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is finally invited to a social event that she doesn't have to cater-but trouble is brewing at the engagement soiree of the season... Read more...



Gunpowder Green
February 1, 2002


In this second Tea Shop Mystery, shop owner Theodosia Browning knows that something's brewing in the high society of Charleston: murder. Read more...





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