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An Unthymely Death

Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Publishing Group, $14 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-425-19002-9

Susan Wittig Albert, creator of China Bayles (Thyme of Death, etc.), offers gardeners a treat in An Unthymely Death: And Other Garden Mysteries. The collection includes 10 tales, four of them previously unpublished (the rest revised from their original on-line appearance), plus sidebars full of herbal lore.