Laura Childs

Author Laura Childs is a New York Times bestselling author known for penning down the famous mystery series’ including the Cackleberry Club Mysteries, the Scrapbook Mysteries and the Tea Shop Mysteries. The name Laura Childs is actually a pseudonym used by author Gerry Schmitt for writing her novels. She likes to write all her novels in the Literature & Fiction, Mystery and Thriller genres. Laura is widely acclaimed for the success of her novel series, the Tea Shop Mysteries, in particular. All the three mystery series’ written by her have featured in the New York Times bestseller list. This has helped her to establish herself as a prominent author. Author Laura Childs says that before becoming a writer, she was the CEO and the Creative Director of a marketing firm owned by her as well as she used to authorize several screenplays. After becoming a successful author, she has mastered herself in writing cozy mystery series’, as seen in all her three novel series’. Laura went on to marry a professor of the Chinese art history. She enjoys her life along with her family and her two Chinese Shar-Pei dogs. Other than writing, Laura loves to travel a lot. When she is not busy in writing something, she likes to ride horses and raising funds for a number of non-profit organizations. Laura is known to characterize few central characters in her novel series’, which play an important role in the overall setting of the series’. The first series written by her, the “Tea Shop Mysteries” is set in the district of Charleston, which has a historical background. The series is based on the life of the main character Theodosia Browning, who is the owner of a tea shop named Indigo Tea Shop.