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Author
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Pub. Date
2007
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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
China Bayles mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
ix, 292 pages ; 24 cm
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
While conducting a discreet investigation into allegations of improper behavior on the part of high school football coach Tim Duffy, China Bayles uncovers a mystery surrounding a young woman's death.
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 26
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
6) Wormwood
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Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
vi, 307 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
While getting some much needed rest and assisting with some herbal workshops, China Bayles stumbles over old secrets in a Kentucky Shaker village after a shocking death occurs during her stay.
7) Hemlock
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 28
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Herbalist China Bayles investigates the disappearance of the most valuable book at the Hemlock House Library, a haunted mountainside manor in North Carolina that houses a collection of rare gardening books.
8) Holly blues
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 288 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
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. When she invites Sally to stay, China starts receiving menacing calls from an "ex" of Sally's, who seems to have a connection to the murder of her parents nearly a decade ago.
9) Bittersweet
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm.
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."--
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
ix, 292 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"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 murder of a woman named Christine Morris and the acquittal of the man accused of the crime. Is it possible that the same person who killed Christine Morris targeted Karen? Delving into the cold...
11) Blood orange
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"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...
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China Bayles mysteries volume 25
Pub. Date
2017.
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"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...
13) Cat's claw
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Hardcover
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xi, 305 p. ; 24 cm.
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 mysteries volume 27
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm.
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...
15) Dead man's bones
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Former attorney-turned-herbalist China Bayles finds her busy life further complicated when her teenage son discovers the skeletal remains of the victim of a not-so-accidental death during a dig in a cave and a local gathering is interrupted by murder.
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