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Thyme of Death

Susan Wittig Albert

Eager to open up an herb shop and get closer to the earth, China Bayles leaves behind her career in corporate law and moves to Pecan Springs, Texas, but a close friend's tragic death could end her happy plans. Reissue.
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Lavender Lies

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

As former lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles prepares her wedding, the festivities are interrupted by a most uncooperative corpse. By the author of Chile Death. Tour.
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Bloodroot

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

In a starred review of Mistletoe Man, Publishers Weekly raved: "[Albert's] writing sparkles...a funny, human story." Now Albert presents her most stunning achievement to date. Set on a Mississippi plantation, Bloodroot is a vivid, haunting novel brimming with dangerous family...
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An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries

Susan Wittig Albert

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Dilly of a Death

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

China's otherwise sensible husband is bored with teaching and ready for a career change...say hello to Mike McQuaid, P.I. His first client is Phoebe the Pickle Queen, owner of the biggest little pickle business in Texas. She says her plant manager is embezzling, and she wants McQuaid...
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Dead Man's Bones

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Texas ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles digs into murders past and present, as a dead man's bones are uncovered-and a community gathering is interrupted by murder... China Bayles already has her hands full balancing her job, her family, and her friends' romantic entanglements....
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Bleeding Hearts

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

When an anonymous source makes shocking allegations of improper behavior on the part of local high school football coach Tim Duffy, China Bayles is called in to conduct a discreet investigation into the charges, but her probe uncovers more than she had ever expected about a case involving...
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Wormwood (China Bayles Book 17)

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Evil can worm its way into the purest of hearts... China Bayles needs rest, and a historic Shaker village in Kentucky seems the ideal place for it. There she can learn about the intriguing, dwindling Shaker culture and its medicinal herbs. Unfortunately, the village is plagued with misfortune...
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Holly Blues

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Print book

"In a class with...sleuths V.I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum," China Bayles deals with a most unwelcome guest... China Bayles is fit to spit when her husband's troubled ex-wife, Sally, shows up at her herb shop, claiming to be broke with nowhere else to turn. China isn't sure...
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Mourning Gloria

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Another herbal treat from national bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert. While Pecan Springs bustles back to life in the warmth of spring, one woman's life is tragically brought to an end. China Bayles happens upon a burning house trailer and hears a woman screaming for help. The evidence...
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Cat's Claw

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Police Chief Sheila Dawson believes the death of Pecan Spring's computer guru, Larry Kirk, to be a suicide, perhaps triggered by his painful divorce. Further investigation reveals that Kirk's death wasn't self-inflicted. And the truth is reinforced by her friend China Bayles'...
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Widow's Tears

Susan Wittig Albert - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestselling Author -- While her friend Ruby-- who has the gift of extrasensory perception-- investigates a supposedly haunted bed and breakfast, China Bayles walks into a storm of trouble in nearby Pecan Springs. Thirty minutes before she is to make her nightly deposit,...
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Death Come Quickly

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

“One of the most endearing and personable amateur sleuths” (Midwest Book Review), herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is back. In Death Come Quickly, a friend’s murder may be the key to solving a fifteen-year-old cold case… When China’s and Ruby’s...
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Bittersweet: A China Bayles Mystery

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Books
Format: Hardcover

New from the author of Death Come Quickly and Widow's TearsThis 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 ... It's Thanksgiving in Pecan Springs, and China is planning...
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Blood Orange: A China Bayles Mystery

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Print book

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...
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The Last Chance Olive Ranch

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

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 the Huntsville prison and appears to be headed...
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A Plain Vanilla Murder

Susan Wittig Albert - Persevero Press
Format: Hardcover

From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times best-selling author of Queen Anne's Lace, comes an intriguing new addition to her widely-acclaimed China Bayles Mysteries. China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual ''Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop,'' always a huge hit with...
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The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood (Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mysteries)

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Beatrix Potter loves the warmth of Sawrey, her new hometown. But even the kindest of souls can turn snappish when houseguests overstay their welcome. When Beatrix returns from time away, she finds the attic overrun with rats. Rosabelle, resident rat and generous hostess, has offered her family...
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The Tale of Hawthorn House: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover; First edition
Format: Hardcover

A brand-new mystery in the endearing Beatrix Potter series from a national bestselling author. During Sawrey's annual summer fte, Miss Beatrix Potter receives an unexpected visitor in the form of Baby Flora, left in a basket on her doorstep with a note, a sprig of hawthorn, and a scarab...
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The Tale of Briar Bank

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Print book

Near Sawrey, the seat of Miss Beatrix Potter?s country home, has been abuzz ever since Mr. Wickstead met his death under a tree limb. Many believe it had to do with a treasure he had dug up. And only Pickles, his dog, knows what happened. Meanwhile, Miss Potter faces dilemmas in her love...
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The Tale of Oat Cake Crag

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The latest tale in the "charming" (Publishers Weekly) Beatrix Potter series! In the Lake District, noisy test flights of the new hydroplane are disrupting life in the village of Near Sawrey. Miss Beatrix Potter can barely hear herself think-which she needs to do for the new case...
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The Tale of Castle Cottage (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix P)

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley
Format: eBook

The latest in the Cottage Tales series-starring Miss Potter herself! It's the heart of summer in 1913, and Beatrix is eager to marry her fianc, solicitor William Heelis. But there are a few obstacles blocking the happy couple's path to the altar, like the troubled remodeling of Castle...
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The Darling Dahlias mysteries

The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A brand-new mystery in the "exceptional" (Booklist) series by the national bestselling author. Rumors are sprouting in Depression-era Darling, Alabama. The town's newest visitors, Nona Jean Jamison and Miss Lake, may be the Naughty and Nice Sisters from the Ziegfeld Frolic,...
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The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

National bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to the small town of Darling, Alabama, in the 1930s - and the Darling Dahlias, the ladies of a garden club who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty solving mysteries ... Just in time for the Confederate Day celebration, the Darling...
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The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

National bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to the small town of Darling, Alabama, in the 1930swhere the Darling Dahlias, the colorful ladies of a garden club, are anything but shrinking violets when it comes to rooting out criminalsThe Texas Star herselfMiss Lily Dare, the fastest...
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The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

National bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert takes readers back in time to small-town Darling, Alabama, in the 1930s - where the Darling Savings and Trust has just closed and the women of the Darling Dahlias' garden club are betting their bottom dollar there's going to be trouble...
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The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock Lady

Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert transports readers to the summer of 1934, when a sensational murder shakes up the small Southern town of Darling, Alabama - and pulls in the ladies of the Darling Dahlias' garden club, who never let the grass grow under their feet...
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The Darling Dahlias and the Poinsettia Puzzle

SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT - Persevero Press
Format: Hardcover

It's Christmas, 1934, and the citizens of Darling, Alabama, are unwrapping a big package of Christmas puzzles. Mildred Kilgore and Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square - if they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two of the biggest puzzles...
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The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover

SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT - Presevero Press
Format: Hardcover

NYT bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to Depression-era Darling, Alabama . . . where the ladies of the Dahlias, the local garden club, are happy to dig a little dirt! In the seventh book of this popular series, it looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop...
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