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1) Rueful death
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
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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Series
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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.
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Indigo dying
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Spanish dagger
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
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 26
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
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.
13) Holly blues
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
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.
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Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 25
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
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...
18) Blood orange
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 24
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 22
Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 27
Language
English
Formats
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...
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