Author: Susan Wittig Albert Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Fiction, Cozy Mystery
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ISBNs: 9780998233208 099823320X |
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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.
This book is part of the "China Bayles" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Cat's Claw" First published in 2012 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Mourning Gloria" First published in 2011 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Wormwood" First published in 2009 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Bleeding Hearts" First published in 2006 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Dead Man's Bones" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Dilly of a Death" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Indigo Dying" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Bloodroot" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Mistletoe Man" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Lavender Lies" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Chile Death" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Love Lies Bleeding" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Rueful Death" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Rosemary Remembered" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Hangman's Root" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Witches' Bane" First published in 1993 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Thyme of Death" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Widow's Tears" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Spanish Dagger" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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