Susan Wittig Albert

When her friend Jo dies of an apparent suicide, ex-lawyer and herb-shop proprietor China Bayles looks with suspicion upon the friendly faces of quaint Pecan Springs. Reissue.

A Mystery Introducing China Bayles

Thyme of Death

After purchasing a farm in the Lake District of England, an animal lover attempts to befriend her fellow villagers, while her animal companions solve a baffling mystery, in a mystery tale inspired by the life of Beatrix Potter.

The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Hill Top Farm

When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok?Hick?is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the 1932 Democratic presidential candidate, the two women become deeply, intimately 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 that ends only with both women?s deaths in the 1960s?all of it documented by 3300 letters exchanged over thirty years.Now, bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert recreates the fascinating story of Hick and Eleanor, set during the chaotic years of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War. Loving Eleanor is Hick?s personal story, revealing Eleanor as a complex, contradictory, and entirely human woman who is pulled in many directions by her obligations to her husband and family and her role as the nation?s First Lady, as well as by a compelling need to care and be cared for. For her part, Hick is revealed as an accomplished journalist, who, at the pinnacle of her career, gives it all up for the woman she loves. Then, as Eleanor is transformed into Eleanor Everywhere, First Lady of the World, Hick must create her own independent, productive life.Drawing on extensive research into the letters that were sealed for a decade following Hick?s death, Albert creates a compelling narrative: a dramatic love story, vividly portraying two strikingly unconventional women, neither of whom is satisfied to live according to the script society has written for her. Loving Eleanor is a profoundly moving novel that illuminates a relationship we are seldom privileged to see and celebrates the depth and durability of women?s love.

Loving Eleanor

China Bayles consults a psychic for answers when she discovers a murdered woman in a pick-up truck who bears a disturbing resemblance to herself

A China Bayles Mystery

Rosemary Remembered

China Bayles Series #3

Hangman's Root :

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. Reprint.

Indigo Dying

Expecting a surprise in the form of a marriage proposal on Valentine's Day, China Bayles gets a shock instead when her lover, Mike McQuaid, is shot

Love Lies Bleeding

Herbalist and amateur sleuth China Bayles is up to her ears in trouble as she tires to support a disturbed friend and reconcile the demands of a new business with affairs of the heart, all the while tracking a killer in small-town Texas. Reprint.

Mistletoe Man

Herbalist China Bayles returns to her family's Mississippi plantation, where she comes face to face with dangerous secrets when she discovers that an ancient property deed has suddenly resurfaced, and the man who found it has vanished. Reprint.

Bloodroot

China Bayles and her husband, Mike McQuaid, become involved in the tangled affaire of Phoebe the Pickle Queen, owner of the largest pickle business in Texas, but things take a dangerous turn when Phoebe mysteriously vanishes. Reprint.

A Dilly of a Death

During a supposedly relaxing retreat at a Texas convent, herbalist China Bayles and her friend Maggie, an ex-nun, investigate the seemingly accidental death of the Mother Superior and uncover a deadly conflict within the walls of the cloister.

Rueful Death

When a holiday prank culminates in a brutal murder, China Bayles's friend Ruby becomes a prime suspect after being accused of practicing witchcraft by a mudslinging minister. Reissue. AB.

Witches' Bane

Amateur sleuth China Bayles finds herself in over her head as she struggles to cope with a crisis in her personal life, the annual chili cookoff, a womanizing judge, and mayhem

Chile Death

"Based on Rose Wilder Lane's unpublished diaries and letters, A wilder rose tells the surprising true story of the often troubled collaborationthat produced eight beloved novels of pioneer life--a collaboration that Rose and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, concealed from their agent, editors, reviewers, and readers. In this impeccably researched novel, Susan Wittig Albert follows the clues that take us straight to the heart of this fascinating literary mystery."--P. 4 of cover.

A Wilder Rose

Firmly established in her new home in the sleepy village of Sawrey, England, Beatrix Potter turns sleuth once again to investigate the suspicious death of local shepherd Ben Hornby, a kindly man with no apparent enemies, joining forces with the victim's sheep, a trio of village cats, and Rascal, a spirited local dog, to uncover the truth. Reprint.

The Tale of Holly How

As former lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles prepares her wedding, the festivities are interrupted by a most uncooperative corpse.

Lavender Lies

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. Reprint.

Bleeding Hearts

China Bayles's demanding schedule is further complicated by her half-brother's and her husband's attempt to solve the mystery of her father's suspicious accidental death, an investigation during which she stumbles on a murdered body in the seemingly tranquil community of Pecan Springs. By the author of Bleeding Hearts. 50,000 first printing.

Spanish Dagger

A Plain Vanilla Murder

After taking in her husband's troubled ex-wife, Sally, China Bayles begins receiving menacing phone calls that may be connected to the murder of Sally's parents ten years ago, and must weed out the truth on her own.

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