China Bayles mysteries
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China Bayles mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
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China Bayles has it all - a prestigious Houston law practice, money, power - but it's not enough. She's smart, she's tough, she's confident, and she knows she wants something more out of life than the fast track offers. Something like the Thyme and Seasons herb shop in Pecan Springs, Texas. Realizing that her career is turning her into somebody she doesn't like, China does what many people only dream of doing: She relocates to a small town to begin...
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China Bayles mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Language
English
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When an animal researcher is found hanged, China Bayles discovers that her friend the Cat Lady is not the only one who wanted him dead, becomes involved in animal rights issues, and deals with a romantic ultimatum from Mike McQuaid.
5) Rueful death
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China Bayles mysteries volume 5
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English
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Private investigator China Bayles was looking forward to her vacation retreat at a Texas convent, but the peace and quiet she anticipated is disrupted by undercurrents of tension engendered by the recent death--supposedly an accident--of the convent's mother superior.
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China Bayles mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Language
English
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Expecting a surprise in the from of a marriage proposal on Valentine's Day, China Bayles gets a shock instead when her lover, Mike McQuaid, is shot.
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English
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With only six days until her wedding with interim police chief Mike McQuaid, Pecan Springs herbalist China Bayles is busy building the tearoom where she plans to hold the reception. When the murder of real estate developer Edgar Coleman threatens to put the wedding off schedule, China and friends decide to help with the investigation.
10) Bloodroot
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China Bayles mysteries volume 10
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English
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China Bayles returns to her family's Mississippi plantation, where she comes face to face with dangerous family secrets as she discovers that an ancient property deed has suddenly resurfaced.
11) Indigo dying
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China Bayles mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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China Bayles, part owner of a combination herb shop and tea room, is drawn into a murder investigation when the widely disliked Casey Ford is killed just days before signing an agreement to sell his mining rights in the slowly reviving art community of Indigo, Texas, which would have resulted in store owners being evicted and the town's certain death.
13) Dead man's bones
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English
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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.
15) Spanish dagger
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China Bayles mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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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.
17) Wormwood
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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China Bayles's friends and family are urging her to get some rest--and a Kentucky Shaker village seems the ideal place for it. But the restored modern version of the village is plagued with misfortune.
18) Holly blues
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China Bayles mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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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.
19) Mourning Gloria
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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After a woman is killed in an arson-homicide, Jessica Nelson, an intern-reporter at the local paper, is assigned to cover the story. When Jessica disappears, China Bayles is determined to find her, before she becomes a headline herself.
20) Cat's claw
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"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...
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China Bayles mysteries volume 22
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English
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"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...
23) Bittersweet
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English
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"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. It's Thanksgiving in Pecan Springs, and China is planning to visit her mother, Leatha, and her mother's husband, Sam, who are enthusiastically embarking on a new enterprise turning their former game ranch into a vacation retreat for birders. She's also looking forward to catching up with...
24) Blood orange
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China Bayles mysteries volume 24
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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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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English
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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...
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China Bayles mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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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.
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China Bayles mysteries volume 27
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English
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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...
28) Hemlock
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China Bayles mysteries volume 28
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English
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"From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of A Plain Vanilla Murder, comes a tightly crafted novel that juxtaposes the disappearance of a rare, remarkably illustrated 18th-century herbal with the true and all-too-human story of its gifted creator, Elizabeth Blackwell. Herbalist China Bayles' latest adventure takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where her friend Dorothea Harper serves as the director and curator of the...
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Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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"China Bayles has settled into the quaint Texas town of Pecan Springs, fallen in love with former homicide detective Mike McQuaid, and opened her beloved Thyme and Seasons herb shop--all while solving more than her share of mysteries. Now you can join China in then puzzling cares--and get a taste of her world..." -- back cover.
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China Bayles' book of days: 365 celebrations of the mystery, myth, and magic of herbs from the world of Pecan Springs
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