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Mystery Albert, S
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Mystery Albert, S
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Mystery Albert, S
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2014. | First edition. | Berkley Prime Crime | ix, 292 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Mystery Albert, S Main Mystery Albert, S Southside Mystery Albert, S |
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2 copies. Additional copies on order.
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CD spoken Mystery Albert, S
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CD spoken Mystery Albert, S
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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p2014 | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 9 sound discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
Main Media CD spoken Mystery Albert, S Southside AV CD spoken Mystery Albert, S |
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...
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La Farge
Mystery Albert, S
Main
Mystery Albert, S
Southside
Mystery Albert, S
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2011, [2012] | 1st ed. | Berkley Prime Crime | xiii, 301 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Mystery Albert, S Main Mystery Albert, S Southside Mystery Albert, S |
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2011 | Large print ed. | Thorndike Press | 441 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Large Type Mystery Albert, S |
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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.
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[2018] | First edition. | Berkley Prime Crime | 292 pages ; 24 cm. | English |
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2 copies. Additional copies on order.
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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.
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...
4) Wormwood
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2009 | 1st ed. | Berkley Prime Crime | vi, 307 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Mystery Albert, S Main Mystery Albert, S |
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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.
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La Farge
Mystery Albert, S
Main
Mystery Albert, S
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2017. | First edition. | Berkley Prime Crime | 291 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Mystery Albert, S Main Mystery Albert, S |
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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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La Farge
Mystery Albert, S
Southside
Mystery Albert, S
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2013, [2014] | 1st ed. | Berkley Prime Crime | ix, 292 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Mystery Albert, S Southside Mystery Albert, S |
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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.
7) Holly blues
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©2010 | Berkley Prime Crime | x, 290 pages ; 18 cm. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Mystery Albert, S |
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After taking in her husband's troubled ex-wife, Sally, China Bayles begins receiving menacing phone calls that may be connected to the murder of Sally's parents ten years ago, and must find out the truth on her own.
8) Cat's claw
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2012 | Berkley Hardcover | xi, 305 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Albert, S Southside Mystery Albert, S |
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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...
9) Blood orange
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Mystery Albert, S
Southside
Mystery Albert, S
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2016. | First edition. | Berkley Prime Crime | 311 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
Main Mystery Albert, S Southside Mystery Albert, S |
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"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 to sell. At the same time, as a nurse employed by a local hospice, Kelly has discovered instances of suspicious practices. Even more disturbing,...
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Main has 2
Mystery Albert, S
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Mystery Albert, S
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2005, c2004 | Berkley Prime Crime mass market ed. | Berkley Prime Crime | 322 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
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2004 | 1st ed. | Berkley Books | p. cm. | On Shelf
Southside Mystery Albert, S |
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Lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles becomes immersed in mystery, this time during pickle season in Pecan Springs, Texas. When a local pickle heiress turns up dead, it looks like things are not at all kosher. More than just a whodunit...readers will relish this more-sweet-than-sour adventure.
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1999 | 1st ed. | Berkley Prime Crime | 306 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Albert, S |
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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...
12) Bittersweet
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2015. | First edition. | Berkley Prime Crime | 294 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
Main Mystery Albert, S |
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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."--
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c1994 | Scribner's | 245 p. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Mystery Albert, S Main Mystery Albert, S |
14) Spanish dagger
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2007 | 1st ed. | Berkley Prime Crime | x, 307 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Albert, S Southside Mystery Albert, S |
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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.
15) Indigo dying
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2006 | Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed. | Berkley Prime Crime | x, 269 pages ; 18 cm. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
Main Mystery Albert, S |
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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....
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3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge
Mystery Albert, S
Main
Mystery Albert, S
Southside
Mystery Albert, S
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2019] | First edition. | Persevero Press | 284 pages : 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Mystery Albert, S Main Mystery Albert, S Southside Mystery Albert, S |
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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...
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1996 | 1st ed. | Berkeley Pub | p. cm. | English | On Shelf
Main has 2 Mystery Albert, S |
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1995 | 1st ed. | Berkley Prime Crime | 296 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Albert, S |
19) Dead man's bones
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2005 | 1st ed. | Berkley Prime Crime | 329 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Albert, S |
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.
20) Nightshade
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2008 | 1st ed. | Berkley Prime Crime | viii, 289 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
Main Mystery Albert, S |
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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...
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