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1) Cat's claw
Author
Series
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
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.
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...
4) Chile death
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 7
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306p. 24cm.
Language
English
Description
The annual chili cook-off sounds like a nice respite from the stress, so China Bayles gladly accoumpanies her wheelchair-bound sweetheart to the event. But tragedy strikes when cook-off judge Jerry Jeff Cody dies of a severe allergic reactionto a peanut. Everyone knows that peanuts don't belong in a bowl of Texas chili...and China knows something suspicious is afoot. China Bayles (Rueful Death, LJ 10/1/96) contends with the paralysis of her new husband,...
5) Bittersweet
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume Book 23
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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 volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
306p. 23cm.
Language
English
Description
The exploits of ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles continue. In Lavender Lies, the eighth volume (and second audio) in the series, China must put her upcoming nuptials on the back burner when a murder investigation entangles her friends and neighbors.Good riddance, is the response of every Pecan Spring resident to the murder of Edgar Coleman, a local real estate shark. With the small-town gossip mill running full tilt, it doesn't take long for China...
7) Indigo dying
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
National best-selling author and resident of Texas, Susan Wittig Albert pens a quirky, but chilling mystery. When Casey Ford threatens to sell his property to a strip mining company, the townsfolk fear that Indigo will be lost forever. Protecting the town is important-so important that someone is willing to kill Casey to keep their home from being ruined. Now, in addition to running the town's cultural crusade, China Bayles must find Casey's murderer....
Author
Series
China Bayles mystery volume 19
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
China Bayles searches for a missing intern reporter at the local Pecan Springs paper who had been covering the story of a suspicious house trailer fire that took the life of another woman.
10) Bleeding hearts
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
National best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert's poetic beauty and West Texas flavor permeate her China Bayles mysteries. The high school principal asks China to secretly investigate the popular football coach who led the Panthers to six state championships. Soon after China confirms the coach's predilection for teenage girls, one of his victims turns up dead and suspicion falls upon the lecherous coach.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 304 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When a telephone switchboard operator with a wild reputation is murdered, the ladies of the Darling Dahlias garden club sort out rumors from fact to identify the killer.
12) 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 288 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Dahlias become suspicious of the newest visitors to Depression-era Darling, Alabama, rumored to be the Naughty and Nice Sisters from the Ziegfeld Frolic, who specialize in dancing nearly naked, and dig for the truth when one of the pair denies the association.
14) 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
Description
Author Susan Wittig Albert turns up the suspense in her China Bayles mystery series. Just as the holiday season begins, so does the drama, when her husband's ex-wife Sally appears begging for help and a place to stay. 'Tis the season of giving, so China opens her home to Sally. But when troubling phone calls start, China knows she'll need to dig up the truth before Christmas turns deadly.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama, garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 285 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the first batch of Darling Dollars, a temporary currency approved by the town leaders to help the struggling town of Darling survive, disappears, the Darling Dahlias investigate.
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...
18) Spanish dagger
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this 15th entry in the best-selling China Bayles series, our teashop owning heroine discovers a dead body while gathering herbs by the railroad tracks. On top of that, her brother unearths new evidence suggesting their father's death was no accident, and China is soon dragged into both mysteries.
19) 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
Description
New York Times best-selling author of A Dilly of a Death, Susan Wittig Albert adds Dead Man's Bones to her widely acclaimed China Bayles mystery series. Publishers Weekly says China is "in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum." Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenage son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave.
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 9
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
296p. 23cm.
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert sets this cozy mystery in the small West Texas town of Pecan Springs. As the Christmas decorating season approaches, Thyme & Seasons proprietor China Bayles feels overwhelmed. While she tries to balance her new roles of wife and step-mom with the demands of her thriving herbal shop, her business partner-and best friend-Ruby mysteriously disappears. Soon China's cantankerous mistletoe supplier Carl turns up dead....