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Author
Series
China Bayles mystery volume Book 25
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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...
3) 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
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Discovering a box of antique handcrafted lace and old photographs in the loft above her shop, China hears ghostly humming and smells lavender from an invisible source before a series of strange occurrences in the building she shares with Ruby reveals the story of a young widow lacemaker who died under suspicious circumstances a century earlier."--Amazon.com.
5) Cat's claw
Author
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...
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Persevero Press
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm.
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...
10) Blood orange
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
11) Indigo dying
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
12) 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
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 9
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
296p. 23cm.
Language
English
14) 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
China Bayles volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
323p. 25cm.
Language
English
17) 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...