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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.

"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 Prison and appears to be headed for Pecan Springs. McQuaid knows there's only one way to stop the vengeful convict--set...

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 ...

"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"--Provided by publisher.

China Bayles's holiday in the Shaker village of Mount Zion becomes a working vacation when Martha, her friend and fellow herbalist, enlists China's help in discovering who is responsible for acts of sabotage and murder that threaten the community's attempt to sell itself as a tou...

It's the spring of 1933 and times are tough all over. Banks are closing all over the country, and the small town of Darling, Alabama, is no exception. Desperate to avoid disaster, several town leaders hatch a plan to print Darling Dollars on the newspaper printing press to serve ...

Spring, 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their new local radio station, WDAR. But there are problems brewing at the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for editor Charlie Dickens. That's not the worst of it, though, as the Dahlias disc...

The troubled ex-wife of China Bayles' husband, Sally, shows up at China's 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 ...

Pecan Spring's computer guru has been shot dead in his kitchen. At first Police Chief Sheila Dawson believes it to be suicide, perhaps triggered by his painful divorce. Further investigation reveals that his death wasn't self-inflicted. George Timms had broken into the computer s...

"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 na...

"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 temporary place to live as she cont...

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.

In 1928, Rose Wilder Lane -- world traveler and highly paid journalist -- returned from Albania to her parents' Ozark farm and felt obligated to stay. Then came the Crash. Rose's investments vanished, and the magazine market dried up. That's when Rose's mother, Laura, wrote Pione...