Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during March 2017 is …
Pekoe Most Poison by Laura Childs, a Theodosia Browning, Tea Shop Mystery (18th in series)
Publisher: Berkley
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 of Charleston's most prominent hostesses, to a "Rat Tea," she is understandably intrigued. As servers dressed in rodent costumes and wearing white gloves offer elegant finger sandwiches and fine teas, Theo learns these parties date back to early twentieth-century Charleston, where the cream of society would sponsor so-called rat teas to promote city rodent control and better public health.
But this party goes from odd to chaotic when a fire starts at one of the tables and Doreen's entrepreneur husband suddenly goes into convulsions and drops dead. Has his favorite orange pekoe tea been poisoned? Theo smells a rat.
The distraught Doreen soon engages Theo to pursue a discreet inquiry into who might have murdered her husband. As Theo and her tea sommelier review the guest list for suspects, they soon find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse …
— Pekoe Most Poison by Laura Childs
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for March 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of March 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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