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The Cackleberry Club Mysteries is a series of cozy mystery novels by American author Laura Childs. Set in the Midwest, three semi-desperate women in their 40s have created a cafe called the Cackleberry Club. The cafe specializes in eggs and also offers a book nook and yarn shop, but murder can end up destroying the […]

The Scrapbooking Mysteries is a series of cozy mystery novels by American novelist Laura Childs. Edgier than Childs’ Tea Shop Mysteries, the series is set in New Orleans and follows Carmela. Carmela owns a scrapbooking shop in the French Quarter called the Memory Mine. She is constantly getting into trouble with her friend Ava, who […]

The Tea Shop Mysteries is a series of cozy mysteries by American novelist Laura Childs. The protagonist is Theodosia Browning, who runs the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston. She is a savvy entrepreneur, has a service dog named Earl Grey. As an amateur sleuth, she is intelligent, focused and doesn’t rely on shoddy police work […]

Laura Childs is an American author of cozy mystery novels (and thriller novels as Gerry Schmitt). She writes cozy mysteries that have the pace of a thriller. She is the author of the Tea Shop Mysteries, Scrapbooking Mysteries and the Cackleberry Club Mysteries. Before becoming a novelist, Laura worked as the CEO/Creative Director of her […]