Susan Wittig Albert

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

Sarah Sammis

The book opens with a violent death. A man opens a door and receives a face full of buckshot. An entire towns worth of people and some out of town media rush over to him. It's a great and memorable scene. Unfortunately it then takes the mystery until page 106 to get back to that spot in the narrative.

China Bayles the protagonist and first person narrator is a chatty character. Eleven books in and she still wants me to know where she lives, who her friends are, what her friends do for a living, and the news of her life for at least the last couple years. What this means for reading one of these mysteries: the first fifty page or so can honestly be skimmed (or sometimes even outright skipped) if you can remember the previous books.

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Aka A Study in Indigo. Oy.

Indigo Dying

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