China Bayles mysteries
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Author
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China Bayles mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
When her friend Jo dies of an apparent suicide, ex-lawyer and herb-shop proprietor China Bayles looks with suspicion upon the friendly faces of quaint Pecan Springs.
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China Bayles mysteries volume 2
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Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
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China Bayles mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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China Bayles mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1998, ©1997
Language
English
Description
Ex-lawyer and herb-shop proprietor China Bayles investigates the murder of a retired Texas Ranger while trying to sort out some mysteries about her own relationship with her boyfriend, discovered when she overhears a suspicious phone conversation.
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China Bayles mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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China Bayles mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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Mistletoe man: a China Bayles mystery , China Bayles mysteries volume 9
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10) Bloodroot
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China Bayles mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
11) Indigo dying
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Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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A dilly of a death , China Bayles mysteries volume 12
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13) Dead man's bones
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China Bayles mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
14) Bleeding hearts
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Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
15) Spanish dagger
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Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Between the herb shop, the catering business, and a weekend paper-making class, China Bayles has her work cut out for her. And now China's half-brother is opening up old wounds, trying to investigate their father's supposedly accidental death, and her husband is taking on the case-meaning she's just bound to get involved.
16) Nightshade
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Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
China's herb shop and catering business may be thriving, but she's still reeling from her father's death, and not even remotely interested in her half-brother Miles's investigation into that event. China's husband, on the other hand, has no such qualms. And when fate forces her to get involved as well, China realizes it's time to bring the past to light-or else it will haunt her the rest of her life. But China and McQuaid discover that Miles may have...
17) Wormwood
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Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 17
Language
English
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A Kentucky Shaker village seems just the place for China to get some much-needed rest and relaxation. And getting a chance to assist with a local herbal workshop is exactly the kind of thing China relishes. Meeting with the kindly villagers, China might rightly suspect that her peaceful surroundings would be the last place on Earth to happen upon violence. But when a death occurs, China's only chance to solve the crime may lie in the history of the...
18) Holly blues
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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After taking in her husband's troubled ex-wife, Sally, China Bayles begins receiving menacing phone calls that may be connected to the murder of Sally's parents ten years ago, and must weed out the truth on her own.
19) Mourning Gloria
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English
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After a woman is killed in an arson-homicide, Jessica Nelson, an intern-reporter at the local paper, is assigned to cover the story. When Jessica disappears, China Bayles is determined to find her, before she becomes a headline herself.
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English
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"Sheila Dawson has made history as the first female police chief in Pecan Springs, Texas. She's also cracked many a mystery in collaboration with local sleuth China Bayles--that's why everyone thinks she's such a smart cookie. Now, Sheila puts those smarts to work, sifting through secrets to find a killer on the prowl... Larry Kirk, Pecan Springs' computer guru, has been shot dead in his kitchen. At first Police Chief Sheila Dawson believes it to...
21) Widow's tears
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Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Herbalist ex-lawyer China Bayles investigates the murder of a teller at the Pecan Springs bank and follows the clues to a haunted bed and breakfast.
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China Bayles mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"When China's and Ruby's friend Karen Prior is mugged in a mall parking lot and dies a few days later, China begins to suspect that her friend's death was not a random assault. Karen was a filmmaker supervising a student documentary about the fifteen-year-old murder of a woman named Christine Morris and the acquittal of the man accused of the crime. Is it possible that the same person who killed Christine Morris targeted Karen? Delving into the cold...
23) Bittersweet
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China Bayles mysteries volume 23
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English
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It's Thanksgiving in Pecan Springs, and China is planning to visit her mother, Leatha, and her mother's husband, Sam, who are enthusiastically embarking on a new enterprise turning their former game ranch into a vacation retreat for birders. She's also looking forward to catching up with her friend, game warden Mackenzie "Mack" Chambers, who was recently transferred to the area. But Leatha calls with bad news: Sam has had a heart attack. How will...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"In the newest China Bayles Mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, China comes to the aid of a nurse who ends up in the hospital... It's mid-April in Pecan Springs, and China is renting her guest cottage to Kelly Kaufman, who needs a temporary place to live as she contends with a very acrimonious divorce from her husband, Rich. One nasty point of dispute is her part ownership of the Comanche Creek Brewing Company, which she is refusing...
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English
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"In this exciting new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him... Max Mantel, the killer McQuaid put away years ago, has busted out of Huntsville Prison and appears to be headed for Pecan Springs. McQuaid knows there's only one way to stop the vengeful convict--set a trap with himself as bait. China wants to stay by her husband's side and keep him...
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China Bayles mysteries volume 26
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
While helping Ruby Wilcox clean up the loft above their shops, China comes upon a box of antique handcrafted lace and old photographs. Following the discovery, she hears a woman humming an old Scottish ballad and smells the delicate scent of lavender.
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China Bayles mysteries volume 27
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual ''Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop,'' always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany...
28) Hemlock
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China Bayles mysteries volume 28
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of A Plain Vanilla Murder, comes a tightly crafted novel that juxtaposes the disappearance of a rare, remarkably illustrated 18th-century herbal with the true and all-too-human story of its gifted creator, Elizabeth Blackwell. Herbalist China Bayles' latest adventure takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where her friend Dorothea Harper serves as the director and curator of the...
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China Bayles' book of days: 365 celebrations of the mystery, myth, and magic of herbs from the world of Pecan Springs
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