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Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Preferring botany to ballrooms, Nora Langley, who has been masquerading as her late physician father for years, meets one of the men she corresponds with who is nothing what she expected--and who threatens everything she holds dear.
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Series
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English
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There is a hidden garden bordering the grounds of Jane Steward's book-themed resort-a garden filled with beautiful but deadly plants such as mandrake and nightshade. Tucked away behind ivy-covered walls and accessible only through a single locked door, as described in the pages of Frances Hodges Burnett's classic novel, the garden is of special interest to Jane's current group of guests, the Medieval Herbalists. But when one of them turns up dead,...
5) Hemlock
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 28
Publisher
Persevero Press
Language
English
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Description
Herbalist China Bayles investigates the disappearance of the most valuable book at the Hemlock House Library, a haunted mountainside manor in North Carolina that houses a collection of rare gardening books.
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English
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After he crashes his plane into Lake Champlain, killing most of the passengers, Chip Linton moves into a new home with his wife and twin daughters and soon finds himself being haunted by the dead passengers, all while his wife wonders why the strange herbalist denizens of the town have taken such an interest in her daughters.
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline...
8) Holly blues
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2010
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 5
Publisher
Berkeley Pub
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Spanish dagger
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2007
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.
15) Dead man's bones
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Former attorney-turned-herbalist China Bayles finds her busy life further complicated when her teenage son discovers the skeletal remains of the victim of a not-so-accidental death during a dig in a cave and a local gathering is interrupted by murder.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany...
18) Wormwood
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2009
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.
20) Mourning Gloria
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
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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