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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline...
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Author
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.
5) Salt & broom
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A gifted healer, Jane Aire, hired by the reclusive master of Thornfield Hall as a last resort, soon discovers her herb healing and protective charms may not be enough to save the man she's come to love from the oncoming darkness.
6) Holly blues
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
10) Dead man's bones
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Living amid the cultural flowering, religious strife, and political storms of Tudor England, Bess Ellyott is a hunted woman. She fled London after her husband was brutally murdered, and the murderer is still out there. When Bess's brother-in-law, a prosperous merchant, is himself found dead-- an apparent suicide-- Bess doesn't believe that for a moment. Town constable Christopher Harwoode will cross members of his own family to help Bess find the...
Author
Series
Book retreat mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When one of the members of The Medieval Herbalists turns up dead after finding and unlocking a garden filled with deadly plants at her book-themed resort, Jane Steward must discover which one of her guests has a penchant for poison."--NoveList Plus.
Author
Series
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.
14) Widow's tears
Author
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.
16) Death of a witch
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hamish Macbeth learns that a newcomer, Catriona Beldame, is regarded as a witch and various men have been seen visiting her. Hamish himself is charmed by her until he finds out that she has been supplying dangerous potions. At first the villagers won't listen to him, saying that the loveless Hamish has turned against all women. He threatens to kill her, so when she is found murdered, he must clear his name and then work to solve yet another murder...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Autumn has fallen on Wiltshire, but as the air grows crisp and the trees turn a resplendent gold, a sinister presence arrives in the form of a horrifying murder. Bartholomew Reade, a player in a traveling troupe, has been found stabbed, sprawled on a low mound outside the village, a reed pen jabbed into his throat. On the night of the murder, a bleeding woman collapses at the doorstep of herbalist Bess Ellyott desperately seeking help. Could she have...
Series
Apothecary diaries volume 5
Publisher
Square Enix Manga, an imprint of the Book Publishing division of Square Enix, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Forced to the leave the Inner Palace, Maomao finds herself in the employ of none other than Jinshi, the seemingly ever-present thorn in her side! Immune to his charms, Maomao sets about learning the ways of life in the Outer Palace, where government officials and military officers go about the daily business of running the country. Far from being fearful of her new surroundings, however, Maomao has her insatiable curiosity piqued by the soldier-occupied...
19) Wormwood
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After the soiree at the Lugiria estate, Eisetsu asks Obi for a favor. Eisetsu has been informed that a Bergat loyalist might be lurking in his territory, and he wants Obi's help verifying the intel. The next day, Obi sets off to visit Tsuruba's manor. Meanwhile, a suspect aroma wafts throughout the northern lands, raising alarms!"--
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