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Dragonwell Dead (A Tea Shop Mystery)

Description

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 Tea. But the party's over when Mark Congdon wins a bid for a rare orchid-and promptly dies. It looks like a simple heart attack, but Theo suspects that someone purposely turned his green thumb blue.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-02-01
Summary: "excellent read"

they are a little short as a read for me- i can finish one in an evening but i just love the series highly recommend!

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-06-26
Summary: "One of the best in the series"

Dragonwell Dead is one of the best I've yet read in the Tea Shop Mystery series. The plot was much more believable and interesting than some of the others. A fun book to read!

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2009-04-24
Summary: "A bit too cute and perfect"

I should start by stating that I am clearly not the intended audience for this sort of book. This is the first book I've read in the "cozy mystery" genre, and everything about it was just a bit too cute for my taste. Much of the plot was highly improbable. The basic plot involves tea shop owner Theodosia Browning trying to figure out why a local orchid aficionado dropped dead immediately after winning a rare specimen at an orchid auction. There's not much else to say about the plot, so I'll get on to the elements I found unbelievable or troublesome. First, the prose is chock-full of description that seems to serve little purpose. Second, there's really no character development. The characters are entirely one-dimensional. Third, the elements of the story and completely implausible. What police chief allows a random civilian to drop off key evidence in a homicide investigation to him at her convenience? Finally, all the extraneous elements of the story are just a bit too perfect. Everything is the best and the nicest.- the nicest tea shop, the most popular bed and breakfast. The tea shop has an unflappable chef who can always make just the most perfect pastries. All this saccharine is more than a little tiresome. Nowhere have I seen a discussion (and an extensive discussion, at that) of a community of small businesses that suffer from none of the concerns endemic to business owners. Ultimately this was a quick read, but I got little out of the experience.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-02-21
Summary: "Another good cozy"

If you've enjoyed other books in this series, this one won't disappoint. Although the characters seem to live in a parallel universe - really, can anyone just whip up croissants? - they are likable and human. This one kept me guessing, and was a thouroughly enjoyable ride.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2008-12-20
Summary: "Is there an editor in the house?"

I've picked up a couple of Laura Child's teashop mysteries in the past and enjoyed them--they're cheerfully undemananding bedtime reading and I like the characters, so even if I can figure out whodunnit in about ten minutes, who cares? The recipes and tea suggestions are a real plus if you entertain a lot.

I really couldn't focus on this one, though, because it was so badly in need of editing. I usually try to overlook errors and concentrate on the story, but there were so many issues that I was constantly distracted.

It's unforgivable for a publishing house not to know the difference between compliment and complement. Childs (or a rotten editor) uses compliment wrongly at least three times.

There are lots of strange, bloated phrases, like "perplexed yet slightly bemused"--what?--or the description of Delaine raising "one quivering eyebrow". The only things I can do with my eyebrows are raise them, waggle them, or overpluck them; I've never yet seen one quivering. Delightful thought, but did Childs really want her readers stopping dead, trying to quiver their own eyebrows and deciding that someone involved in this book is either a total freak or on a lot of hard drugs?

Then there are oddities in the excessively flimsy plot. Drayton and Theo get shot at in a canoe and plunge over a waterfall, but that's never explained, not even in the traditional full confession of the murderer while he's trying to set Theo on fire. Theo hadn't been on his track at the time and, as he bragged, he'd set the trail on someone else. If this, um, harrowing experience was explained, I totally missed it. And what's with the encounter with Jory's cousin? It seemed completely irrelevant.

Worse, one mention of lavender-infused egg salad and I zoomed to the back of the book to check out the recipe--sounded intriguing, and I had just been talking to someone about using lavender in food. The recipe's there, alright, but there's not a mention of lavender except in the title. I read it about fourteen times on the principle that lavender had to be there SOMEWHERE. Nope.

The overwhelming impression I got was that Childs had set herself a daily wordcount, or was under deadline pressure, or is maybe flat out of ideas, and was trying to meet her goals regardless.

You don't expect a masterpiece with this kind of book, but I truly think that an author and her publisher owe the people who fork over the dosh a little more respect than this.