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China Bayles mystery volume 25
Language
English
Description
"Max Mantel, the killer McQuaid put away years ago, has busted out of Huntsville Prisona nd 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 from harm. But McQuaid insists that she get out of town and go to the Last Chance Olive Ranch, where she's agreed to teach a workshop on herbs. When China and her best...
2) Blood orange
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 24
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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. At the same time, as a nurse employed by a local hospice, Kelly has discovered instances of suspicious practices. Even more disturbing, she suspects that a patient was murdered. Kelly’s knowledge could be dangerous, and she wants to get guidance from...
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China Bayles mystery volume 26
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
While helping Ruby Wilcox clean up the loft above their shops, China comes upon a box of antique handcrafted lace and old photographs. Then she hears a woman humming an old Scottish ballad and smells the delicate scent of lavender. Soon, strange happenings start to occur in Thyme and Seasons: misplaced items, a ringing bell, and the appearance of lavender sprigs in odd places. When a customer mentions seeing a mysterious woman picking flowers nearby...
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 19
Language
English
Description
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.
5) Holly blues
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume , 18
Language
English
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Just as the holiday season begins, so does the drama, when China Bayles' 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.
6) Bittersweet
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 23
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
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. --Provided by publisher.
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 21
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Herbalist ex-lawyer China Bales investigates the murder of a teller at the Pecan Springs bank and follows the clues to a haunted bed and breakfast.
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China Bayles mystery volume 27
Language
English
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...
9) Hemlock
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 28
Language
English
Description
Herbalist China Bayles's latest adventure takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where her friend Dorothea Harper serves as the director and curator of the Hemlock House Library, a priceless collection of rare gardening books housed in a haunted mountainside mansion that once belonged to Sunny Carswell, a reclusive heiress. But the most valuable book - A Curious Herbal, created by Elizabeth Blackwell in the 1730s - is missing and Dorothea is...
10) Dead man's bones
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 13
Language
English
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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.
11) Spanish dagger
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 15
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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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.
12) Mistletoe man
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 9
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
Herbalist and amateur sleuth China Bayles is up to her ears in trouble as she tries to support a disturbed friend and reconcile the demands of a new business with affairs of the heart, all the while tracking a killer in small-town Texas.
13) Bloodroot
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008, c2001
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
China Bayles mystery volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Herbalist and sleuth China Bayles, on retreat at a Texas convent, investigates the mysterious death of the mother superior.
15) Hangman's root
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 3
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In her most challenging case yet, lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles has to prove the innocence of her friend Dottie, an animal rights activist charged with the murder of a prominent animal researcher. As China sorts through the dead man's past, she learns that Dottie isn't the one who may have wanted him dead.
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1998.
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.
17) Lavender lies
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Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Sleuth and herbalist China Bayles of Pecan Springs, Texas, joins Mike McQuaid, the town's police chief to investigate the murder of a land developer. They have to hurry if they don't want the case to clash with their honeymoon. They are getting married.
18) Nightshade
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
China's herb shop and catering business may be thriving, but she's still reeling from her father's death, and not even remotely interested in her half-brother Miles's investigation into that event. China's husband, on the other hand, has no such qualms. And when fate forces her to get involved as well, China realizes it's time to bring the past to light-or else it will haunt her the rest of her life. But China and McQuaid discover that Miles may have...
19) Bleeding hearts
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
High school football coach Tim Duffy is handsome, charming, and married into a wealthy local family. But now, an anonymous accuser has made shocking allegations of improper behavior-and China Bayles is asked to conduct a discreet investigation. What she uncovers is a perplexing story of forbidden desire, deception, and questionable circumstances surrounding a young woman's death. And the deeper China digs, the more she fears that the town's beloved...
20) Cat's claw
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Series
China Bayles mystery volume 20
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Larry Kirk, Pecan Springs' computer guru, has been shot dead in his kitchen. At first Police Chief Sheila Dawson believes it to be 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' news--Larry recently asked her for legal advice in regards to a stalker. In her investigation, Sheila uncovers secrets, terrible secrets that...
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