Book Review: High Tea and Misdemeanor by Laura Childs

High Tea and Misdemeanors by Laura Childs
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

First time reading anything from Laura Childs, and I don't think it'll be my last time doing so. High Tea and Misdemeanors takes place during a wedding in Charleston, but then a murder happens, and Theo and her friend and tea sommelier (I learned that's a thing now....) Drayton Conneley tries to figure out who killed the bridesmaid and why they are trying to scare the groom.

As Theo and Drayton look into everything, from the guy Jaime worked for once, and told him that what he was doing wasn't going to work, and he lost everything, to a tech startup guy that did the website for the graveyard stroll that Theo's teashop, the Indigo Tea Shop, is hosting in a very famous graveyard. But when this one woman kept coming into the shop, saying that she wanted to open her own coffee shop with her own flavors of coffee, it never clicked until the end, when she led Theo and Drayton to an abandoned warehouse, where she explained everything and why she did what she did to the shed.

For a moment throughout the whole entire thing, I thought it was the bride's ex-fiancé that did it, but when it was revealed to be the coffee shop operator, I was both shocked...and annoyed. I really didn't want it to be her, but good lord, she made it so hard for me to see that it was her the whole time. I was hoping that it was someone else, but when Theo's boyfriend came through at the end, after telling her multiple times not to get involved, she did anyway.

Throughout the book, everyone kept asking her if she was going to get involved and solve the mystery. Even though Theo said no, she got involved anyway, and that's when she solved the case, while also going through the police via her boyfriend :) All in all, it was a really good book, and I cannot wait to read more from this author.

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