Books like Scones & Bones (A Tea Shop Mystery, #12) by Laura Childs

A locked‑in murder on the Orient Express forces detective Hercule Poirot to unravel a mystery among a diverse group of passengers during a snowbound night.

In Charleston’s bustling tea shop, Theodosia Browning faces a poisoning accusation—she must clear her name and uncover the real murderer before another unsuspecting sip ends in death.

Life hasn't been so sweet for Everly Swan over the past couple of years but now that she's back in her seaside hometown and the proud owner of a little iced tea shop and café right on the beach, things are finally starting to look up until a curmudgeonly customer turns up dead on the boardwalk. With one of her hallmark glass tea jars lying right next to him and an autopsy that reports poison in his system, it doesn't look good for Everly or her brand new business. As the townspeople of Charm turn their backs on Everly, she fights to dig up clues about who could have had it in for the former town councilman. With a maddeningly handsome detective discouraging her from uncovering leads and a series of anonymous attacks on Everly and her business, it will take everything she's got to keep this mystery from boiling over.

Theodosia Browning, Indigo Tea Shop owner, investigates a murder at Charleston’s Knighthall Winery after a wine barrel yields a dead body. Secrets, family feuds, and hidden motives unravel in this tea‑shop mystery.

Piper Prescott, a recent divorcée from New England, opens a spice shop in Southern Georgia and becomes the prime suspect when a chef is stabbed during a demo. With no alibi, she teams up with her best friend to clear her name and solve the murder.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

When the groom of Delaine Dish’s wedding turns up cold in more ways than one, Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning steps in to uncover a killer hidden in Charleston’s wedding chaos.

After a particularly successful evening of sales, Charleston's Theodosia Browning discovers the body of map store owner Daria. Locals have shown interest in buying her shop--but enough to kill? Plus there's been a customer hell-bent on acquiring a not-for-sale map. Most alarming of all theories, however, is Detective Tidwell's: the killer mistook Daria for Theodosia. And if that theory holds, the killer's work isn't done.

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 Indigo Tea Shop a busy week of catering jobs. First up is the opening night gala at the historic Belvedere Theatre. Tinseltown and local luminaries seem to be mingling happily in the glamorously renovated lobby, but Theo notices that the atmosphere backstage is tense. Then famous director Jordan Cole is shot on his way to the podium, and the entire audience witnesses his death silhouetted across the scrim. Never has a festival started off with this big a bang.

In Charleston’s vibrant Spoleto festival, tea‑shop owner Theodosia Browning faces a murderer when a prominent auctioneer falls dead on her cake, prompting her to probe art forgery, fraud, and murder in the Low Country.

At a black‑tie gala celebrating a rare eighteenth‑century Chinese teahouse, Charleston’s charming mystery sleuth Theodosia Browning discovers donor Edgar Webster dead behind a photo booth. With her boyfriend Max a PR lead turned suspect, she must untangle a web of philanthropy, art and murder.

Theodosia Browning investigates the murder of her ex-boyfriend at the grand opening of Charleston's Neptune Aquarium.

Theodosia Browning, owner of Indigo Tea Shop, must solve a jewel heist and murder that hits close to home during a trunk show at Heart's Desire Jewelry.