Download or read book A Plain Vanilla Murder written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times best-selling author of Queen Anne's Lace, comes an intriguing new addition to her widely-acclaimed China Bayles Mysteries.? ?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 professor, a prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor's ex-wife and a prime suspect in his murder.? However, there's no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent little girl. A Plain Vanilla Murder is a flavorful blend of mystery and herb lore, present sins and past secrets, and characters who are as real as your next-door neighbors--stirred together in an absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create.

Download or read book A Plain Vanilla Murder written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times best-selling author of Queen Anne’s Lace, comes an intriguing new addition to her widely-acclaimed China Bayles Mysteries. ​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 professor, a prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor’s ex-wife and a prime suspect in his murder. However, there’s no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent little girl. A Plain Vanilla Murder is a flavorful blend of mystery and herb lore, present sins and past secrets, and characters who are as real as your next-door neighbors—stirred together in an absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create.

Download or read book Plain Vanilla Murder written by Carol Durand and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cooking reality show is the stuff of dreams when you own an up-and-coming bakery. Being suspected of murdering one of the judges is not. With Chas far away and storm clouds gathering, Missy has to rely on unfamiliar allies in an unfamiliar place to find the true perpetrator before time runs out on her small screen dreams.

Download or read book Plain Vanilla Murder written by Summer Prescott and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever want to host your own reality show?Truth can be stranger than reality TV!A cooking reality show is a dream come true for cupcake bakery owner, Missy Gladstone. Being suspected of murdering one of the judges is a nightmare. With her detective boyfriend, Chas Beckett, far away, and storm clouds of intrigue gathering, Missy has to rely on unfamiliar allies in an unfamiliar place, in order to find the real perpetrator.Will she solve the crime before time runs out on her small screen dreams?

Download or read book Death Come Quickly written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles finds herself on the trail of a nearly fifteen-year-old cold case… When China 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 almost 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 case, China learns the motive for the first murder may be related to a valuable collection of Mexican art. Enlisting the help of her San Antonio lawyer friend Justine Wyzinski—aka the Whiz—China is determined to track down the murderer. But is she painting herself into a corner from which there’s no escape?

Download or read book Holly Blues written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Bayles isn't happy when a Texas wind blows her husband's ex-wife, and the mother of China's stepson, into her herb shop. Sally is known to have a split personality and fall into constant trouble with the law, but she claims she has nowhere else to turn. Now its up to China to weed out whatever it is Sally's running from before the truth catches up to them all.

Download or read book Mourning Gloria written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Wittig Albert, “who consistently turns out some of the best-plotted mysteries on the market,”* delivers the charm and suspense in her latest herbal treat, Mourning Gloria. Now ex-lawyer and current herbalist China Bayles must stop a killer whose evil is burning through Texas… China is relishing the scents, produce, and even the showers of spring. She’s also busy hosting Pecan Springs’ Farmers’ Market. It brings additional customers to her herb shop Thyme and Seasons. And residents find rare ingredients they wouldn’t otherwise find in the supermarket. Everybody wins… But as the town bustles back to life in the warmth of the season, one woman’s life is tragically brought to an end. China happens upon a burning house trailer and hears a woman screaming for help. The evidence leaves no doubt that it’s arson homicide—but who would commit such a ghastly crime? An intern-reporter at the local paper, Jessica Nelson, is assigned to cover the story. Drawn into the case by its similarity to her own tragic loss—Jessica’s family died in a fire—she soon finds herself deeply involved and in danger. And when Jessica disappears, China becomes determined to help find her, before she becomes headlines herself… *Houston Chronicle

Download or read book Thyme of Death written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorable debut of one of the most original and appealing new female sleuths to come along in years. Readers will identify with China Bayles as she makes the kind of tough decisions that confront us all.

Download or read book Hemlock written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of A Plain Vanilla Murder, comes a tightly crafted novel that juxtaposes the disappearance of a rare, remarkably illustrated 18th-century herbal with the true and all-too-human story of its gifted creator, Elizabeth Blackwell. ​Herbalist China Bayles’ 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 Elizabeth Blackwell in the 1730s—is missing and Dorothea is under suspicion. China’s search for the thief takes on a new urgency when she discovers Miss Carswell’s bookseller, the victim of an attempted murder. Is his shooting connected with the theft? And there are other urgent questions: What is the Hemlock Guild? Who owns Socrates.com? Did Sunny Carswell really kill herself, or does her ghost have a different story to tell? And what is the real truth behind the many tantalizing mysteries of A Curious Herbal? Hemlock is a compelling mix of mystery and herb lore, past secrets and present sins, and characters who are as real as your friends and neighbors—in an absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create.

Download or read book Murder of a Barbie and Ken written by Denise Swanson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of a social life in Scumble River, Skye Denison has revently joined the GUMBettes-the ladies auxiliary of the men's Grand Union of the Mighty Bulls. Now she and her boyfriend Simon hobnob with the upwardly mobile professionals in town. But when a seemingly perfect couple is murdered, Skye discovers that success doesn't equal survival...

Download or read book Murder at the Racecourse written by Berjis Desai and published by Shree Book Centre. This book was released on 2024-08-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Derby of Intolerable Suspense: 'Inspector,’ she said, ‘in this place, some experience far greater pleasure in seeing other men’s horses lose rather than see their own horse win!’ Nari Mansukhani, the notorious trainer, is shot dead at the racecourse. His murder triggers a chain of events which spiral out of control and rock the amoral world of horse racing, where fortunes are made or lost in less than 60 seconds. A deadly cocktail of scandal, doping, intrigue and betrayal perplexes the country’s top sleuths.

Download or read book Molten Mud Murder written by Sara E. Johnson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book in the Alexa Glock Mystery series! For a normal tourist, finding a body in a geothermal pool in New Zealand might ruin a vacation. Forensic specialist Alexa Glock, however, sees a chance to help local law enforcement with a baffling case. But as she finds herself embroiled in the tense investigation, she can't help but wonder: is the past better left undisturbed, or unearthed? These thrilling New Zealand mysteries are: Perfect for fans of Kathy Reichs and Nevada Barr For readers of international mysteries and forensic investigation mysteries When a body is found half-submerged in a molten mud pot in one of Rotorua's famous geothermal wonderlands, forensics expert Alexa Glock spots a way to prolong her stay in New Zealand, which she has been visiting for work. Teeth are her expertise, and the investigation needs her help, as other ways of identifying the body may have... melted away. Joining Detective Inspector Bruce Horne and his team, Alexa finds herself sleuthing out more than teeth. She soon discovers that the murder victim, a city councilman, had trespassed on an island sacred to the Maori. The ancient punishment for such a transgression is disaster, demonic possession, or death... and when she visits the island to investigate, the same outcome is promised for her. Alexa is fascinated by New Zealand culture but doesn't quite believe in ancient spirits returning to exact revenge, so when another victim turns up dead, she begins to wonder whether the real threat is something—or someone—much closer to home. A fast-paced forensic mystery set in New Zealand, Molten Mud Murder introduces Alexa Glock, an investigator with a knack for gleaning the truth from bones and teeth. Full of enough forensics and action for fans of Kathy Reichs or the tv series Bones, Sara E. Johnson presents a page-turning story about facing the past and cracking the door open to an unexpected future.

Download or read book Public Health Crisis Management and Criminal Liability of Governments written by Michael Bohlander and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses potential avenues of criminal liability for public health crisis management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, under national and international criminal law, especially for causing death and bodily harm. The national case studies are geographically representative and follow a common research grid. Each national case study is prefaced by an overview of the detection and subsequent spread of the pandemic in the country concerned. The relevant legal and constitutional frameworks that governed the government and corporate conduct in the face of the pandemic are also discussed, followed by the consideration of forms of criminal liability. Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic differed vastly in terms of both the choice of strategies adopted (herd immunity, test-and-trace, lockdown, etc) and the quality and speed of government implementation of those strategies and associated interventions. Both factors impacted the number of infections and casualties. It is therefore appropriate to consider forms of criminal liability for failure of individual members of government, including specific public authorities, to act to the best of their abilities, as timely as possible, and in accordance with expert advice.

Download or read book Vanilla Cream Murder written by Susan Gillard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Heather Shepherd starts another donut-filled week she doesn't expect to see Roadkill Rodney in her store and is pleasantly surprised at the friendly face. But surprise turns to horror when Roadkill knocks on her door in the middle of the night and reveals that he's just found his new girlfriend, Norma, dead in her store. Heather can't help but investigate once again and is drawn into a mystery with so many loose ends she struggles to pull it all together. She sets out to solve the case with her best friend and co-investigator in tow, a box of Vanilla Cream Donuts to sweeten the deal and her unending desire for justice. But things are never simple in not-so-sleepy Hillside, where the suspects are many and the evidence, this time, is few. Apart from a curious murder weapon and a partial print, Heather, Ames and ever faithful hubby Detective Shepherd are in the dark. Heather has to get to the bottom of this one or the killer may strike again and much closer to home.

Download or read book Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thrillers Box Set Books 4 6 written by John Ellsworth and published by Subjudica House. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books 4-5-6 of the bestselling Thaddeus Murfee series by John Ellsworth are offered in a box set at a very fair price. “The Mental Case,” “Defending Turquoise,” and “Chase, the Bad Baby" have received a combined 350+ FIVE-STAR reviews from readers in less than nine months. All three of the novels are consistently rated among the top-100 bestselling legal thrillers, mystery, suspense, crime, and all three are among the most highly-rated novels among retailers. Enjoy a quality set that will offer you more than twenty hours of pleasure and entertainment -- nearly 900 gripping pages of legal mystery, mystery series, organized crime danger, and intrigue. "If you like Reacher, the Lincoln Lawyer, Jake Brigance and John Grisham, you will love this Thaddeus Murfee crime thriller!” — Five-Star Review “Already John Ellsworth’s name is mentioned with Lee Child, Michael Connelly, and John Grisham when critics talk about legal/crime fiction.” --Five-Star Review "Every bit as good as Grisham! Superb characterization, suspense, drama.” - Five-Star Review Thaddeus Murfee novel categories include: - Legal Thrillers - Crime Thrillers - Legal Suspense - Lawyer Mysteries - Crime Fiction - Mystery Series - Romance Suspense - Organized Crime - Courtroom Thrillers - Courtroom Drama

Download or read book Rosemary Remembered written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something about the murder of an accountant just doesn't add up in this China Bayles mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert. China's herb shop in Pecan Springs wasn't a big business, but it kept her busy. So she brought her taxes to Rosemary Robbins, an accountant who reminded China a bit of her former self—preoccupied, distracted, maybe a bit overstressed. Still, Rosemary always seemed pleasant, and China wished she could get to know her better. Now, though, the chance is gone. Driving out to Rosemary's house on an errand, China discovers her accountant has been murdered. With one abusive ex-husband and plenty of former clients in the picture, there's no shortage of suspects. And with a vengeful ex-convict on the loose, there's plenty for China to worry about. And as the evidence unfolds, she's more determined than ever to make the killer pay...

Download or read book Goodnight Murder written by Diane Weiner and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Jenna Blake is back. She survived a school shooting. She survived her husband’s suicide. With the help of supportive parents, a therapy dog, and Oreos, she’s regained her grip on life. Or has she? On her first day back from an extended sabbatical, she finds a cryptic note on her desk requesting a meeting. When the anonymous note writer is a no-show and later turns up dead, it ignites a volatile chain of events. If she can’t explain why her scarf, address, and DNA are found on the dead stranger, she’ll lose her job and be thrown in jail. When Jenna discovers a second victim murdered in the woods and one of her students goes missing, she rises to the top of the suspect list. Enlisting the help of a hot private investigator, her humorous teaching assistant, and the original victim’s fiancé, she fights to uncover the twisted truth.