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Dead Man's Bones
China Bayles Mysteries: Book #13
By Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by Julia Gibson / 10 hours 49 minutes
New York Times best-selling author of A Dilly of a Death, Susan Wittig Albert adds Dead Man's Bones to her widely acclaimed China Bayles mystery series. Publishers Weekly says China is "in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum." Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenage son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave.
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Mistletoe Man
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert sets this cozy mystery in the small West Texas town of Pecan Springs. As the Christmas decorating season approaches, Thyme & Seasons proprietor China Bayles feels overwhelmed. While she tries to balance her new roles of wife and step-mom with the demands of her thriving herbal shop, her business... Read More »
Bloodroot
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In Bloodroot, best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert transports listeners to a haunted house oozing with family secrets. When a man dies soon after Tullie bashes his head with her cane, China's estranged mother frantically calls for her daughter's help. Rushing to her family's Mississippi plantation, China must determine if her Great Aunt... Read More »
Indigo Dying
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
National best-selling author and resident of Texas, Susan Wittig Albert pens a quirky, but chilling mystery. When Casey Ford threatens to sell his property to a strip mining company, the townsfolk fear that Indigo will be lost forever. Protecting the town is important-so important that someone is willing to kill Casey to keep their home from... Read More »
A Dilly of a Death
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Popular author Susan Wittig Albert and her China Bayles Herbal Mysteries have been hailed for their intelligent plots and quirky characters. China is a member of the Pecan Springs, Texas Picklefest planning committee. When the Pickle Queen disappears just days before the festival, China and her husband P.I. Mike McQuaid relish searching for the... Read More »
Dead Man's Bones
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author of A Dilly of a Death, Susan Wittig Albert adds Dead Man's Bones to her widely acclaimed China Bayles mystery series. Publishers Weekly says China is "in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum." Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her... Read More »
Bleeding Hearts
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
National best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert's poetic beauty and West Texas flavor permeate her China Bayles mysteries. The high school principal asks China to secretly investigate the popular football coach who led the Panthers to six state championships. Soon after China confirms the coach's predilection for teenage girls, one of his... Read More »
Spanish Dagger
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In this 15th entry in the best-selling China Bayles series, our teashop owning heroine discovers a dead body while gathering herbs by the railroad tracks. On top of that, her brother unearths new evidence suggesting their father's death was no accident, and China is soon dragged into both mysteries. Luckily for her, "when China starts snooping,... Read More »
Nightshade
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson & Tom Stechschulte
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
In this 16th entry in Susan Wittig Albert's long-running mystery series, China is finally on the verge of finding out the truth about her father's death. But her reservations about letting her half-brother Miles hire her husband prove all too accurate when she discovers Miles has a hidden agenda. "Details of herbs and herbal remedies continue to... Read More »
Wormwood
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson, Linda Stephens & Ed Sala
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Susan Wittig Albert has won critical acclaim and a devoted following for her China Bayles mysteries featuring beloved herb shop and tearoom owner China. In Wormwood, the death of a woman in a pool-where a Shaker woman drowned in 1912-sets the stage for a perplexing whodunit. ". another winner from this dependable veteran." -Publishers Weekly Read More »
Holly Blues
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson & Tom Stechschulte
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Author Susan Wittig Albert turns up the suspense in her China Bayles mystery series. Just as the holiday season begins, so does the drama, when her husband’s ex-wife Sally appears begging for help and a place to stay. ’Tis the season of giving, so China opens her home to Sally. But when troubling phone calls start, China knows she’ll need to dig... Read More »
Mourning Gloria
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Therese Plummer & Julia Gibson
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
This 19th mystery in the China Bales series is a cozy herbal treat from national best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert. While Pecan Springs bustles back to life in the warmth of spring, one woman's life is tragically brought to an end. Assigned to cover the story, an intern from the local paper gets too deeply involved. When she disappears,... Read More »
Cat's Claw
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Morgan Hallett & Julia Gibson
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert is widely acclaimed for her cozy China Bayles mystery series. In Cat’s Claw, China’s friend, Police Chief Sheila Dawson, takes center stage. When local computer guru Larry Kirk is found dead, many are convinced it was suicide over his recent divorce. But Sheila has a hunch there’s more to... Read More »
Widow's Tears
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson & Morgan Hallett
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert is especially beloved for creating herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles, hailed by Publishers Weekly as “in a class with lady sleuths V.I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum.” In Widow’s Tears, China has urgent business to discuss with Ruby, a friend gifted with extrasensory perception. Meeting Ruby at a... Read More »
Death Come Quickly
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson & Therese Plummer
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most endearing and personable amateur sleuths" (Midwest Book Review), herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is back. In Death Come Quickly, a friend' s murder may be the key to solving a fifteen-year-old cold case 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... Read More »
Bittersweet
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson & Morgan Hallett
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than 20 years, Susan Wittig Albert has been delivering “some of the best-plotted mysteries on the market” (Houston Chronicle). In Bittersweet, China is hoping to spend a peaceful Thanksgiving in Pecan Springs. But the holiday turns treacherous after a deadly accident. And when a local vet is shot, China and game warden Mack Chambers... Read More »
Blood Orange
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
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 contends with a very acrimonious divorce from her husband Rich. One... Read More »
The Last Chance Olive Ranch
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson & Tom Stechschulte
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In the exciting new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him. A killer McQuaid put away years ago has busted out of Huntsville Prison and appears to be headed for Pecan Springs. China wants to stay by her husband's side and keep him from harm, but McQuaid... Read More »
Queen Anne's Lace
By: Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by: Julia Gibson & Linda Stephens
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A present day ghost leads China Bayles to a secret from Pecan Springs's past in this haunting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert. While helping Ruby Wilcox clean up the loft above their shops, China comes upon a box of antique handcrafted lace and old photographs. Following the discovery, she hears a woman humming... Read More »