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Bayles, China (Fictitious character) Fiction FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths Herbalists Fiction Herbalists Texas Fiction Large type books Murder Investigation Fiction Texas Fiction Texas Hill Country (Tex.) Fiction Women detectives Fiction Women detectives Texas FictionAlbert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkeley Prime Crime 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: Now ex-lawyer and current herbalist, China Bayles must stop a killer who is burning through Texas. Set to solve the mystery-homicide case, China must find the reporter assigned to the case before Jessica Nelson becomes a headline herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: "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 from harm. But McQuaid insists that she get out of town and go to the Last Chance Olive Ranch, where she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Albert 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: China's otherwise sensible husband is bored with teaching and ready for a career change...say hello to Mike McQuaid, P.I. His first client is Phoebe the Pickle Queen, owner of the biggest little pickle business in Texas. She says her plant manager is embezzling, and she wants McQuaid to follow the money. But just days before the annual Picklefest, Phoebe disappears. And now it's up to McQuaid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: Herbalist ex-lawyer China Bayles investigates the murder of a teller at the Pecan Springs bank and follows the clues to a haunted bed and breakfast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M ALBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: When a local real estae shark is found shot to death one week before China Bayles is set to marry the town's police chief, she joins forces with her fiance to find the killer before they can ruin her wedding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: China Bayles consults a psychic for answers when she discovers a murdered woman in a pickup truck who bears a disturbing resemblance to herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: "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 Prisonand 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: "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 temporaryplace 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: China's not interested in her half-brother Miles's investigation into their father's death. But Miles may have been keeping as many secrets as he seemed determined to uncover. Who has a stake in concealing the truth after sixteen years?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: China's friends and family are urging her to get some rest-and a Kentucky Shaker village seems the ideal place for it. At Mount Zion, China can assist with some herbal workshops-while absorbing all things Shaker, from their furniture to their peaceful ways. But the restored modern version of the village, striving to become a popular tourist attraction, is plagued with misfortune and strife-...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AlbAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: Herbalist China Bayles's latest adventure takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where her friend Dorothea Harper serves as the director and curator of the Hemlock House Library, a priceless collection of rare gardening books housed in a haunted mountainside mansion that once belonged to Sunny Carswell, a reclusive heiress. But the most valuable book - A Curious Herbal, created by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Albert 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M ALBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkeley Prime Crime 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2014