Susan Wittig Albert
Author
Series
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...
22) Dead man's bones
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's domineering, philandering husband (famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz); and...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Spring, 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their new local radio station, WDAR. But there are problems brewing at the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for editor Charlie Dickens.That's not the worst of it, though, as the Dahlias discover when the newest resident at Bessie Bloodworth's Magnolia Manor is found dead. She had overindulged in a large and very rich chocolate cake - but was something else baked...
Author
Series
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.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Llc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers - just days before the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition. Another unlucky break: a serious foul-up in Darling's telephone system - and not a penny for repairs. And while liquor is legal again, moonshine isn't. Sheriff Buddy Norris needs a little luck when he goes into Briar Swamp to confront Cypress County's most notorious bootlegger. What he finds...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Beatrix and William's impending nuptials are delayed when the remodeling of their future home, Castle Cottage, causes more problems than anticipated in the latest installment of a series that incorporates events from the life of Beatrix Potter and her beloved characters.
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
29) Spanish dagger
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.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The eleven o'clock lady has always been one of garden club president Liz Lacy's favorite spring wildflowers. The plant is so named because the white blossoms don't open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up. But another Eleven O'Clock Lady is never going to wake up again. Rona Jean Hancock--a telephone switchboard operator who earned her nickname because her shift ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning--has been...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The Dahlias become suspicious of the Depression-era town's newest visitors--rumored to be the Naughty and Nice Sisters from the Ziegfeld Frolic, who specialize in dancing nearly naked--and dig for the truth when one of the pair denies the association.
32) 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.
Author
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The omnibus edition of the Crystal Cave Trilogy, from NYT bestselling author, Susan Wittig Albert. NoBODY: Ruby Wilcox has always known that she has a rare gift for seeing things that others can't. But she tries to downplay her psychic gift--until she experiences a horrifying nightmare that just won't stop. Again and again, she dreams that a woman is abducted on the hike-and-bike trail and knows that the victim is in deadly danger. SomeBODY Else:...
34) Nightshade
Author
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...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Mr. Wickstead has died under a tree limb. The villagers are certain that his death had to do with a treasure he dug up last spring. But why was he in the wood on a frigid night? And what of the claw marks on the limb? And what was that treasure? As per usual, the town's animals know more than the Big Folk. And only Pickles, Wickstead's fox terrier, knows exactly what happened. It's up to amateur sleuth Beatrix Potter to help the denizens of Sawrey,...
Author
Series
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.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Based on Rose Wilder Lane's unpublished diaries and letters, "A wilder rose" tells the surprising true story of the often troubled collaboration that produced eight beloved novels of pioneer life-- a collaboration that Rose and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, concealed from their agent, editors, reviewers, and readers. In this impeccably researched novel, Susan Wittig Albert follows the clues that take us straight to the heart of this fascinating...
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.