This is book 9 (unless I've miscounted) in the Indigo Tea Shop Mysteries. The Indigo Tea shop is gearing up for Charlston’s first Movie Premier and week long fundraiser event for the Charlston Historical Society. The old theater has been completely renovated and there is a full contingent of producers, directors, actors and techy people descending on the town. It’s opening night, the audience and judges are set and a director is murdered before everyone. In the coming days, Timothy Neville, chairman of the Historical Society, asks Theo to “look into things” because his granddaughter has been questioned by the police. Theo, unable to just say no, is off and snooping, getting caught up in intrigue, threats and generally going where she shouldn’t go much to the chagrin of her friends (who oddly enough, don’t do much to talk any sense into her).
The Tea Shop mysteries are pure brain candy, full of tea and wine trivia, and lots of references to historical Charlston and surrounding areas. People seem to drop dead with alarming frequency around Theo and her group, but Childs does it well, tying in the murders to events that bring people to town. Still, there are the unanswered questions at the end, bits and pieces that weren’t quite tied up nice and tidy like, that keep these books in my “fluff” category. I read these as a brain break between my more solid and stoic SF.
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