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How long does it take to read Chamomile Mourning?

Laura Childs

Chamomile Mourning by Laura Childs takes about 6 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 20 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2005. 345 pages, about 94,875 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 33 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 20 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 57 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Charleston, South Carolina, is alive with music, dancing, and the arts as the Spoleto festival gets underway. But Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning feels far from festive when the inaugural Poet’s Tea is forced into one of the Heritage Society’s austere halls by rain. And when it rains, it pours—as proven when a respected auction house owner plummets from the balcony, landing dead on Theodosia’s specially-prepared cake. Worse yet, it looks like someone helped him over the edge. With a full kettle of suspects, Theodosia pursues an investigation into the murky swamps of the Low Country, where she uncovers a thriving criminal enterprise of art forgery, fraud—and murder…

Subjects: Women detectives, Tearooms, Fiction, Tea trade, Crimes against, Auctioneers

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