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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
While Pecan Springs bustles back to life in the warmth of spring, one woman's life is tragically brought to an end. China Bayles happens upon a burning house trailer and hears a woman screaming for help. The evidence leaves no doubt that it's arson homicide. Jessica Nelson, an intern-reporter at the local paper, is assigned to cover the story. When Jessica gets herself too deeply involved and disappears, China is determined to find her before she...
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkeley Pub
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
On a retreat in St. Theresa's, a convent in Texas, sleuth China Bayles observes nuns fighting over a legacy worth millions of dollars. One lot wants the money for more contemplation, the other for commerce. When fires break out and people die, China steps in.
Author
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.
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In Texas, lawyer and herbalist China Bayles opens a probe into the death of a former Texas Ranger, believed to have been involved in drug smuggling. The probe puts China's life in danger.
6) Bloodroot
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2001
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.
7) Holly blues
Author
Language
English
Description
China Bayles is fit to spit when her husband's troubled ex-wife, Sally, shows up at her herb shop, claiming to be broke with nowhere else to turn. When she invites Sally to stay, China starts receiving menacing calls from an "ex" of Sally's, who seems to have a connection to the murder of her parents nearly a decade ago.
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
An annual chili cookoff, a womanizing judge, and a crisis in China Bayle's personal life add up to a novel that will delight fans of this fast-rising author, a nominee for both the Anthony and Agatha Awards.
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When an anonymous source makes shocking allegations of improper behavior on the part of local high school football coach Tim Duffy, China Bayles is called in to conduct a discreet investigation into the charges, but her probe uncovers more than she had ever expected about a case involving betrayal, forbidden desire, and the mystery surrounding a young woman's death.
10) Cat's claw
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Berkley Hardcover
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"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 to...
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Former lawyer China Boyles' life becomes more complicated than usual when one of the main suppliers for her tea shop is found murdered.
12) Indigo dying
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Indigo, Texas, to teach a workshop, herbalist China Bayles and her best friend Ruby help investigate the murder of resident Casey Ford, whose plans to sell his mining rights would have destroyed the town forever.
13) Spanish dagger
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
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.
14) Hangman's root
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Texas, a biologist who experimented on animals is found hanged in his office and suspicion focuses on Dottie Riddle, an animal rights activists. At that China Bayles, her friend, a woman who gave up law to run a herb shop, realizes she has to return to her old trade.
15) Wormwood
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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.
16) Bittersweet
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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. It's Thanksgiving in Pecan Springs, and China is planning to visit her mother, Leatha, and her mother's husband, Sam, who are enthusiastically embarking on a new enterprise turning their former game ranch into a vacation retreat for birders. She's also looking forward to catching up with...
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In Pecan Springs, Texas, China Bayles, former lawyer and now owner of a herb store, discovers the body of a woman who is her double. It could be a crime of passion--the lady was going to divorce her husband--or, worse, someone is after China.
18) Nightshade
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries 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...
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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 murder of a woman named Christine Morris and the acquittal of the man accused of the crime. Is it possible that the same person who killed Christine Morris targeted Karen? Delving into the cold...
20) Blood orange
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 24
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the newest China Bayles Mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, China comes to the aid of a nurse who ends up in the hospital ... 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...
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