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41) Bloodroot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Bloodroot, best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert transports listeners to a haunted house oozing with family secrets. When a man dies soon after Tullie bashes his head with her cane, China's estranged mother frantically calls for her daughter's help. Rushing to her family's Mississippi plantation, China must determine if her Great Aunt Tullie is guilty of homicide. She must also face the possibility of developing the same terrifying disease that...
42) Spanish dagger
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 307 pages ; 24 cm
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
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
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....
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 305 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Mr. Wickstead has died under a tree limb. The villagers are certain that his death had to do with a treasure he dug up last spring. But why was he in the wood on a frigid night? And what of the claw marks on the limb? And what was that treasure? As per usual, the town's animals know more than the Big Folk. And only Pickles, Wickstead's fox terrier, knows exactly what happened. It's up to amateur sleuth Beatrix Potter to help the denizens of Sawrey,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Popular author Susan Wittig Albert and her China Bayles Herbal Mysteries have been hailed for their intelligent plots and quirky characters. China is a member of the Pecan Springs, Texas Picklefest planning committee. When the Pickle Queen disappears just days before the festival, China and her husband P.I. Mike McQuaid relish searching for the clues in this dilly of a case. This exciting whodunit is packed with plenty of pickle jokes, folklore, and...
49) Dead man's bones
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 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.
50) Loving Eleanor
Author
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok -- Hick -- is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1932 campaign, the two women become deeply involved. Their relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy periods of enforced separation and competing interests, and warms into an enduring, encompassing friendship documented by 3300 letters. Set during the chaotic years of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 333 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Author Susan Wittig Albert returns with the third in her cozy series inspired by the life of author Beatrix Potter. When a mysterious outsider plans to ruin the pristine shoreline of Lake Windermere, Beatrix works with her friends to set things right.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
461 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Mr. Wickstead has died under a tree limb. The villagers are certain that his death had to do with a treasure he dug up last spring. But why was he in the wood on a frigid night? And what of the claw marks on the limb? And what was that treasure? As per usual, the town's animals know more than the Big Folk. And only Pickles, Wickstead's fox terrier, knows exactly what happened. It's up to amateur sleuth Beatrix Potter to help the denizens of Sawrey,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Omnibus edition.
Physical Desc
607 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Deadlines: "When Pecan Springs Enterprise crime reporter Jessica Nelson gets an anonymous tip about a year-old death that might be murder, she's already facing too many deadlines, so the story is low on her to-investigate list. Plus, she's distracted by the possibility of a hot lead in the cold-case arson deaths of her parents and twin sister, deaths for which she suffers survivor's guilt and a phobic fear of fire. And time is running out for the...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
488 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Beatrix Potter returns to her new hometown of Sawrey after some time away, she finds the village threatened by a mysterious outsider who plans to destroy the pristine shoreline of Lake Windermere by constructing a number of villas.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
408 pages (large print) : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Beatrix Potter buys a farm by herself in 1905 England to recover from her fiancé's death, she expects rest and relaxation, but the untimely death of a villager brings chaos to the town.