Description 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.
She and her husband Bill live in the Texas Hill Country, where she writes, gardens, and raises a.
Susan currently serves as an editor of Story Circle Book Reviews and helps to coordinate SCN\'s online class program.
She has published three award-winning historical novels, as well as YA fiction, memoirs, and nonfiction.
Her work includes four Mystery series: China Bayles, the Darling Dahlias, the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and the Robin Paige Victorian mysteries.
About the Author Susan Wittig Albert is the NYT best-selling author of over 100 books.
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.
At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent little girl.
But the lethal roots of this Mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the Vanilla vine was first cultivated.
However, there\'s no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers.
China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor\'s ex-wife and a prime suspect in his 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.
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.
China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop.
Description 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
