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Author
Series
China Bayles volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Physical Desc
285 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
4) Chile death
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 7
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306p. 24cm.
Language
English
Description
The annual chili cook-off sounds like a nice respite from the stress, so China Bayles gladly accoumpanies her wheelchair-bound sweetheart to the event. But tragedy strikes when cook-off judge Jerry Jeff Cody dies of a severe allergic reactionto a peanut. Everyone knows that peanuts don't belong in a bowl of Texas chili...and China knows something suspicious is afoot. China Bayles (Rueful Death, LJ 10/1/96) contends with the paralysis of her new husband,...
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
306p. 23cm.
Language
English
Description
The exploits of ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles continue. In Lavender Lies, the eighth volume (and second audio) in the series, China must put her upcoming nuptials on the back burner when a murder investigation entangles her friends and neighbors.Good riddance, is the response of every Pecan Spring resident to the murder of Edgar Coleman, a local real estate shark. With the small-town gossip mill running full tilt, it doesn't take long for China...
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 9
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
296p. 23cm.
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert sets this cozy mystery in the small West Texas town of Pecan Springs. As the Christmas decorating season approaches, Thyme & Seasons proprietor China Bayles feels overwhelmed. While she tries to balance her new roles of wife and step-mom with the demands of her thriving herbal shop, her business partner-and best friend-Ruby mysteriously disappears. Soon China's cantankerous mistletoe supplier Carl turns up dead....
7) Bloodroot
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
306p. 23cm.
Language
English
Description
In Bloodroot, best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert transports listeners to a haunted house oozing with family secrets. When a man dies soon after Tullie bashes his head with her cane, China's estranged mother frantically calls for her daughter's help. Rushing to her family's Mississippi plantation, China must determine if her Great Aunt Tullie is guilty of homicide. She must also face the possibility of developing the same terrifying disease that...
8) Indigo dying
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
National best-selling author and resident of Texas, Susan Wittig Albert pens a quirky, but chilling mystery. When Casey Ford threatens to sell his property to a strip mining company, the townsfolk fear that Indigo will be lost forever. Protecting the town is important-so important that someone is willing to kill Casey to keep their home from being ruined. Now, in addition to running the town's cultural crusade, China Bayles must find Casey's murderer....
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
323p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Popular author Susan Wittig Albert and her China Bayles Herbal Mysteries have been hailed for their intelligent plots and quirky characters. China is a member of the Pecan Springs, Texas Picklefest planning committee. When the Pickle Queen disappears just days before the festival, China and her husband P.I. Mike McQuaid relish searching for the clues in this dilly of a case. This exciting whodunit is packed with plenty of pickle jokes, folklore, and...
10) Dead man's bones
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York Times best-selling author of A Dilly of a Death, Susan Wittig Albert adds Dead Man's Bones to her widely acclaimed China Bayles mystery series. Publishers Weekly says China is "in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum." Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenage son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave.
11) Bleeding hearts
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
National best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert's poetic beauty and West Texas flavor permeate her China Bayles mysteries. The high school principal asks China to secretly investigate the popular football coach who led the Panthers to six state championships. Soon after China confirms the coach's predilection for teenage girls, one of his victims turns up dead and suspicion falls upon the lecherous coach.
12) Spanish dagger
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
China Bayles's demanding schedule is further complicated by her half-brother's and her husband's attempt to solve the mystery of her father's suspicious accidental death, an investigation during which she stumbles on a murdered body in the seemingly tranquil community of Pecan Springs.
13) Nightshade
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 289 p. ; 24 cm.
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...
14) Wormwood
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 17
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Susan Wittig Albert has won critical acclaim and a devoted following for her China Bayles mysteries featuring beloved herb shop and tearoom owner China. In Wormwood, the death of a woman in a pool-where a Shaker woman drowned in 1912-sets the stage for a perplexing whodunit.
15) Holly blues
Author
Series
China Bayle volume 18
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Author Susan Wittig Albert turns up the suspense in her China Bayles mystery series. Just as the holiday season begins, so does the drama, when her husband's ex-wife Sally appears begging for help and a place to stay. 'Tis the season of giving, so China opens her home to Sally. But when troubling phone calls start, China knows she'll need to dig up the truth before Christmas turns deadly.
16) Mourning Gloria
Author
Series
China Bayles mystery volume 19
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
China Bayles searches for a missing intern reporter at the local Pecan Springs paper who had been covering the story of a suspicious house trailer fire that took the life of another woman.
17) Cat's claw
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
18) Widow's tears
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Herbalist ex-lawyer China Bales investigates the murder of a teller at the Pecan Springs bank and follows the clues to a haunted bed and breakfast.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the help of a lawyer friend in Texas, China Bayles investigates a cold case involving a valuable piece of Mexican art after suspecting that it may be connected to the death of another friend.
"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...
20) Bittersweet
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume Book 23
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"This Thanksgiving, be grateful for China Bayles who teams up with an old friend to solve a complex case of theft and murder in a South Texas ranching community."--