Susan Wittig Albert\'s exciting mysteries have been praised as "unique" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) and "fascinating" (Booklist).
She and her husband, Bill, coauthor a series of Victorian-Edwardian mysteries under the name Robin Paige, which includes such titles as Death at Glamis Castle and Death at Whitechapel..
Some of her recent titles include Widow\'s Tears, Cat\'s Claw, The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose, and The Tale of Castle Cottage.
A former professor of English and a university administrator and vice president, she is the author of the China Bayles Mysteries, the Darling Dahlias Mysteries, and the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter. at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Now, the key to catching a killer might be the mysterious bones in the cave--a clue from the past that could help China solve a mystery in the present...
About the Author: Susan Wittig Albert grew up on a farm in Illinois and earned her Ph.
But China senses something else going on behind the scenes.
It seems like a clear-cut case of self-defense.
The premiere party ends with a bang when a ne\'er-do-well local handyman is shot Dead by Jane while breaking into the Obermann estate.
Unfortunately, the haughty, bullying Jane Obermann--and her frail, frightened younger sister--made the donation with a condition: that the first production be a play written by Jane about their aristocratic family history.
But China doesn\'t let it distract her from the opening of the new community theater donated by the elderly Obermann sisters.
When China\'s teenage son finds some skeletal remains during a local cave dig--remains that show a not-so-accidental death--it\'s a disturbing development.
Now, a Dead man\'s bones are uncovered--and Texas ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles must dig into a pair of murders separated by time but connected by motive...
Susan Wittig Albert\'s exciting mysteries have been praised as "unique" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) and "fascinating" (Booklist)
