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Title: Thyme of Death: A China Bayles Mystery (West Coast Crime) by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 0-425-14098-9 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, well-written mystery!
Comment: I have to disagree with the fella's review down below me who said that genre novels do not deserve five stars! Hogwash! Shoot, I only review books that deserve five stars. If it's not a good book, why read OR review it? Which leads me to declare my life's motto: So Many Books, So Little Time!
This first book in the China Bayles series is excellent. I read "Lavender Lies" first and thought I might be disappointed in the first book of the series, but I was proven wrong! We're introduced to all of China's cohorts in Pecan Springs, Texas and get the dirt on everyone. Ms. Albert immediately draws us into solving the murder of China's friend (who has terminal breast cancer) who appears to have comitted suicide. It's a wild plot with suspects galore, but I was totally surprised when the murderer was finally brought to justice by China and Ruby. Good, fast-paced read. I highly recommend it to mystery lovers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Texas China worth collecting
Comment: I first met Susan Wittig Albert at a Houston women writers workshop about the time she started her China Bayles series. She was also writing the Robin Paige Victorian mysteries with hubby Bill. I bought all the books she had out at the time and carried them home aflush with the joy of personally autographed copies.
Then, finally, this winter I began to enjoy China Bayles, even out of sequence. But this first volume in the set, Thyme of Death, certainly is one to make a reader want to read the rest of the books. China, named after her grandmother, is a strong woman, an ex-Houston-tough attorney in retreat to a quieter life as herb store owner. Her fictional location in Pecan Springs is wonderfully familiar to any Hill Country Texan. Albert worked as Dean of Women at South West Texas State University in San Marcos and knows the country intimately.
Fictional China just can't get away from the crime scenes that she thought she left behind in Houston, however. And before long she is enlisted in solving a crime with her outrageous New Age fellow shop owner and friend Ruby in tow. China's herb shop ownership lends itself to rich teachings about herbs, and a clever tie in to the crime in each novel. Dealing with the small town John law and the county mountie sheriff requires extra savvy from Ms. Bayles. She is plenty capable of handling crime, customers, and hot, spicy, chile-flavored dishes which she comfortably washes down with Texas brew in the local country western juke joint.
If you like smart females who are in charge of their own lives, you will like China Bayles. Even when she unwillingly softens to the courtship of an ex-Houston cop turn criminology professor, she remains fiercely independent and of the '90's, headed for the 21st century.
To read one of Albert's China Bayles' mysteries is to set yourself up to read another and another and another.
Rating: 4
Summary: China Bayles' debut novel
Comment: In China Bayles, Susan Albert has created an independent, likeable character. China becomes a lawyer because she wants to emulate her father but then finds that she does not enjoy the life-style of a big-city attorney. In a complete about-face, she moves to the small town of Pecan Springs, Texas, where she purchases an herb shop. Albert's descriptions of the countryside between Austin and San Antonio, and the kind of people that would inhabit a small Texas town are right on, and they provide a great setting for this series. One of China's friends in Pecan Springs is Jo Gilbert, a woman who is concerned with the environment and who is spearheading a move to prevent the building of a regional airport. When Jo's daughter finds her dead, the police assume that it is a suicide. China cannot believe that her friend would take her own life and she sets out to prove that it is a murder instead. She begins an investigation that leads her to everything from disgruntled developers to lost love. Along the way, she enjoys romance with Professor Mike McQuaid, and introduces us to several of the town's more colorful characters. This is the beginning of a very promising series.
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Title: Witches' Bane by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 0425144062 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hangman's Root by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 042514898X Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Rosemary Remembered by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 042515405X Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Rueful Death: A China Bayles Mystery (West Coast Crime) by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 0425159418 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Love Lies Bleeding: A China Bayles Mystery (West Coast Crime) by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 0425166112 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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