Widow's Tears (China Bayles Mystery)
by Albert, Susan Wittig
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0425255727
- ISBN 13
- 9780425255728
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Synopsis
Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum” ( Publishers Weekly ). In Widow’s Tears , a haunted house may hold the key to solving the murder of one of China’s friends After losing her family and home in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Rachel Blackwood rebuilt her house a hundred miles inland and later died there, still wrapped in her grief. In present-day Texas, Claire, the grandniece of Rachel’s caretaker, has inherited the house and wants to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. But she is concerned that it’s haunted, so she calls in her friend Rubywho has the gift of extrasensory perceptionto check it out. While Ruby is ghost hunting, China Bayles walks into a storm of trouble in nearby Pecan Springs. A half hour before she is to make her nightly deposit, the Pecan Springs bank is robbed and a teller is shot and killed. Before she can discover the identity of the killers, China follows Ruby to the Blackwood house to discuss urgent business. As she is drawn into the mystery of the haunted house, China opens the door on some very real danger
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- Gulf Coast Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0425255727-4-24654397
- Title
- Widow's Tears (China Bayles Mystery)
- Author
- Albert, Susan Wittig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0425255727
- ISBN 13
- 9780425255728
- Publisher
- Berkley
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013-04-02
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 17 oz
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