Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-24776-1
Set in 1931 Darling, Ala., Albert’s captivating third Darling Dahlias mystery (after 2011’s The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies) finds the ladies of the Darling Dahlias garden club planning a rose planting in honor of Confederate Day. Their...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-18190-4
China Bayles, former big-city lawyer, is snug and happy in a small town in the Texas hill country, with a new husband and stepson, two successful herb businesses and a string of solved murders to her credit (Chile Death; Lavender Lies; etc.). Now,...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-19636-7
Murder and suspicion of witchcraft in a small Texas town draw attorney-turned-herbalist China Bayles into her second case (after Thyme of Death ). Rumors of devil worship are rampant in Pecan Springs following the probable suicide of a teenager and...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author Berkley Publishing Group $19.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-425-14937-9
It's unsettling to find your doppelganger murdered. So learns China Bayles in her fourth novel (following Hangman's Root). The Pecan Springs, Tex., herb store owner (and former attorney) goes to retrieve lover Mike McQuaid's truck from CPA Rosemary...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-15469-4
Early in this intelligent addition to herbalist China Bayles's adventures (Thyme of Death; Rosemary Remembered), one character laments that she has given up reading about women detectives because they are all ""Raymond Chandler in drag.... Lotta...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author Jeremy P. Tarcher $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87477-848-9
Believing that all women have stories to tell and that they can grow spiritually as they learn to put those stories into words, Susan Witting Albert provides a guided writing program that is practical and inspiring. Her step-by-step instructions and
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-15969-9
The real mystery in this latest adventure of China Bayles, a former lawyer who now owns an herb shop in Pecan Springs, Tex., is her apparent change of personality. Previously game and independent (Rueful Death, etc.), China turns unexpectedly...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author Berkley Publishing Group $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-19634-2
Beatrix Potter fans will welcome the talented Susan Wittig Albert's The Tale of Hill Top Farm, the first in a new cozy series to feature Peter Rabbit's creator as sleuth. Newly arrived in Near Sawrey in 1905, the sensible and charming Beatrix, aided
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-24527-9
China Bayles shares top billing with Sheila Dawson in Albert’s diverting 20th cozy set in the touristy Texas town of Pecan Springs (after 2011’s Mourning Gloria). China, an ex-lawyer turned herbalist and owner of Thyme and Seasons as well as co-owner
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author Berkley Prime Crime $21.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-425-17673-3
""I'll be home for Christmas,"" croons the old, sweet song. Fans of Albert's herbalist-attorney-sleuth, China Bayles, who have been lauding her spicy mysteries since Thyme of Death nine books ago, will feel they've come home (to delightful Pecan...
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-25572-8
The bond between China Bayles and her boon friend and business partner, Ruby Wilcox, suffers in Albert’s enjoyable 21st cozy featuring the Pecan Springs, Tex., ex-lawyer and herbalist (after 2012’s Cat’s Claw). Unfolding along with the present-day...
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-26058-6
Aviation provides the theme for Albert’s charming fourth Depression-era mystery set in Darling, Ala. (after 2012’s The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose). As the members of the Darling Dahlias garden club prepare to host the annual Watermelon
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Susan Wittig Albert. Persevero, $14.99 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-9892035-0-0
Rose Wilder Lane was the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and an accomplished professional author. Over the years, there has been literary conjecture that she was responsible in large part for the authorship of the Little House series. Albert's...
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-25563-6
The fatal mugging of Karen Prior in a west Texas mall kicks off Albert’s perky 22nd mystery featuring herbalist and former lawyer China Bayles (after 2013’s Widow’s Tears). Before she died, Karen, a teacher friend of China’s, was supervising a...
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26060-9
Set in 1933, Albert’s quietly paced fifth Darling Dahlias cozy (after 2013’s The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star) works better as a portrait of a Depression-era Southern town than as a mystery. When the town’s only bank temporarily closes, a few...
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-25562-9
Bestseller Albert addresses some big social and political problems in her entertaining 23rd mystery featuring herbalist China Bayles (after 2014’s Death Come Quickly). China and her family are planning to spend Thanksgiving with her mother, Lethea,...
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-26062-3
The discovery of the body of telephone switchboard operator Rona Jean Hancock, sprawled across a car’s front seat with a silk stocking wound tightly around her neck, propels bestseller Albert’s thoroughly enjoyable sixth Darling Dahlias mystery (afte
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-28000-3
Once again murder and small-town life go hand in glove in Albert's enchanting 24th China Bayles mystery (after 2015's Bittersweet). Hospice nurse Kelly Kaufman, who has been renting China's guest cottage in Pecan Springs, Tex., while going through a
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-425-22361-1
At the start of Albert’s delightful fifth cottage tale (after 2007’s The Tale of Hawthorn House
), Beatrix Potter, dismayed by the frosty atmosphere at home in London with her demanding parents, returns to Hill Top Farm in the Lake...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-18828-6
This latest accomplished entry in Albert's detective series featuring defense attorney–cum–herbalist China Bayles is both a smalltown murder mystery and a portrait of a Texas community whose existence is threatened by a dispute over...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-19399-0
Add another fragrant bloom to the dozen already in the bouquet of Albert's herbal cozies (Thyme of Death
, etc.) starring China Bayles, a former big-city attorney who now runs Thyme and Seasons Herbs, a small shop in quiet, touristy Pecan...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-20017-9
In Albert's assured 14th outing for China Bayles (after 2004's A Dilly of a Death
), the herbalist and ex-lawyer is worried about the effect of the poor tourist trade on her Pecan Springs, Tex., herb shop, tea room and New Age store owned...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-20274-6
As in 2004's The Tale of Hill Top Farm
, Albert skillfully blends fact and fiction in her second Beatrix Potter tale set in the quaint English Lake District village of Near Sawrey. Beatrix is in the midst of renovating Hill Top Farm when she...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-425-20799-4
In Albert's engrossing 15th mystery to star China Bayles, herbalist, erstwhile lawyer and occasional gumshoe (after 2005's Dead Man's Bones
), everyone in China's charming hometown of Pecan Springs, Tex., is stunned when the high...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-425-21004-8
At the start of Albert's enchanting third Beatrix Potter mystery set in England's Lake District (after 2005's The Tale of Holy How
), Miss Potter discovers that her beloved Hill Top Farm is overrun with rats. In the nearby town of Far...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-425-21394-0
Violent crime and long-buried intrigue disrupt the peace of Pecan Springs, Tex., home of herb shop owner China Bayles, in the piquant 16th entry in Albert's southwestern cozy series (after 2006's Bleeding Hearts
). China's pleasant...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-425-21655-2
Albert’s charming fourth Beatrix Potter mystery (after 2006’s The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood
) finds our heroine unexpectedly in possession of a foundling child, Baby Flora. The reader knows the mysteriously twinkly Mrs. Overthewall stole...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-425-21956-0
Former attorney China Bayles, now the proprietor of a small herb shop in Pecan Springs, Tex., finally gets some answers to her questions about the death of her cold, distant father, who perished in a fiery car accident 16 years earlier, in the...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-19677-0
Welcome back in her third appearance (following Thyme of Death and Witches' Bane) is China Bayles, the prickly and independent former lawyer who swerved out of the Houston fast lane to open an herb shop in Pecan Springs, Tex. Miles Harwick, an...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $24.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-425-22609-4
Murders past and present with a Shaker link intersect in alarming ways in Albert's engaging 17th China Bayles puzzler (after 2008's Nightshade
). Recent painful events help prompt China, who runs an herb shop and tearoom in Pecan Springs,...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-23260-6
The arrival in Pecan Springs, Tex., of Sally Strahorn, the insecure ex-wife of China Bayles's husband, PI Mike McQuaid, leads to trouble in Albert's sprightly 18th China Bayles mystery (after 2009's Wormwood
). Against her better...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-23445-7
A small Southern town blooms into life in Albert's nostalgic first in a new Depression-era mystery series. Darling, Ala., is in the midst of financial upheaval surrounding the Darling Savings and Trust, though the ladies of the Darling Dahlias...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Berkley Prime Crime, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-23661-1
Albert's charming seventh Beatrix Potter tale (after 2009's The Tale of Applebeck Orchard) finds Beatrix at Hill Top Farm in the Lake District, where she has taken refuge from her parents, who she knows will disapprove of her secret engagement to...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Univ. of Texas, $24.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-292-72306-1
Known for such popular mystery series as China Bayles and the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, Albert now invites readers to share her 69th year through daily journal musings. Her ordinary days are filled with gardening, cooking, and chores on her...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author Berkley Publishing Group $14 (272p) 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...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-19522-3
In this promising though conventional debut mystery, Albert (Work of Her Oum) ably invents a central Texas town called Pecan Springs. While the plotting is somewhat mundane, the book's appealing late-summer setting and descriptions of home cooking...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author, Diane Fassel, Foreword by Jeremy P. Tarcher $19.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-87477-709-3
Unlike the usual guide to corporate success, this engrossing, probing study by Albert, a former English professor and now a writer of children's books, recounts how she and 80 other women holding top positions experienced a career crisis, lost their
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Susan Wittig Albert, Author, Susan Wittig Albert, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-16539-3
China Bayles, the only ex-lawyer/herbalist/sleuth in Pecan Springs, Texas--and perhaps anywhere else--offers an appealing measure of hot chili lore to go with the abundance of hot water in which she finds herself in her seventh outing (after Love...
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Susan Wittig Albert, Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-23913-1
In Albert's formulaic if still enjoyable 19th China Bayles mystery (after 2010's Holly Blues), the Pecan Springs, Tex., herbalist discovers a trailer on fire on a country road, but she's unable to rescue the unknown woman trapped inside before it...
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-24128-8
Two new people come to stay with elderly recluse Julia Hamer at the outset of Albert's delightful second mystery set in Depression-era Darling, Ala. (after 2010's The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree). Elizabeth Lacy and the other members of...
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-24350-8
Set in 1913, Albert's delightful eighth Beatrix Potter cozy (after 2010's The Tale of Oat Cake Crag) smoothly blends fact and fiction. Beatrix is struggling to finish The Tale of Pigling Bland while overseeing the reconstruction of Castle Farm, her...
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-28003-4
At the start of Albert’s absorbing 25th China Bayles mystery (after 2016’s Blood Orange), an early morning phone call alerts herbalist and former lawyer China and her husband, PI Mike McQuaid, that Max Mantel, who was convicted of murdering two...
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Susan Wittig Albert. Persevero, $25.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-9969040-3-2
In bestseller Albert’s sweet seventh mystery set in 1930s Darling, Ala., and featuring the ladies of the local garden club (after 2015’s The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O’Clock Lady), the town’s telephone system is suffering from equipment...
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Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-28005-8
Albert’s fascinating 26th mystery featuring Pecan Springs, Tex., herbalist China Bayles (after 2017’s The Last Chance Olive Ranch) elegantly weaves the third-person account of lace maker Annie Duncan, set in the late 1880s, with China’s first-person
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