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Susan Wittig Albert

Book - 2017

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 nasty point of dispute is her part ownership of the Comanche Creek Brewing Company, which she is refusing to sell. At the same time, as a nurse employed by a local hospice, Kelly has discovered instances of suspicious practices. Even more disturbing, she suspects that a patient was murdered. Kelly's knowledge could be dangerous, and she wants to get guidance from China on what to do. But on her way to China's house, Kelly is forced off the road and critically injured, putting her in a medically induced coma. Now it's up to ...China to determine who wanted her out of the picture. Was it her soon-to-be ex? His new lover, who happens to be the sister of China's friend Ruby? Or someone connected with the corruption at the hospice?

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Subjects
Bayles, China > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Bayles, China > (Fictitious character)
Women detectives > Texas > Fiction.
Divorce > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Divorce.
Friendship.
Women detectives.
Texas > Fiction.
Texas.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Fiction
Published
New York : Berkley Prime Crime 2017.
Language
English
Main Author
Susan Wittig Albert (author)
Edition
Berkley mass-market edition
Physical Description
299 pages ; 18 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 289).
ISBN
9780425280010
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Once again murder and small-town life go hand in glove in Albert's enchanting 24th China Bayles mystery (after 2015's Bittersweet). Hospice nurse Kelly Kaufman, who has been renting China's guest cottage in Pecan Springs, Tex., while going through a bitter divorce, disappears one day, but she later phones China to say that she needs the herbalist's help with a situation involving murder. While driving to meet China, Kelly has a car accident that leaves her in a coma. Police chief Sheila Dawson suspects it was no accident, and China begins to dig for more information. One obvious suspect is Kelly's husband, Richard, who's involved romantically with the erratic and ebullient sister of China's best friend and business partner, Ruby Wilcox. In addition, rumors about a disagreement between Kelly and hospice owner Marla Blake raise a red flag. China can't resist a mystery, even when it puts her in grave danger. Snippets of plant lore will please botanists. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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