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Title: Bloodroot by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 0-425-18814-0 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A solid addition to an excellent series
Comment: Sometimes people panic when an author departs from the setting of an established series. In some cases it does affect the series negatively. This is NOT the case, however, in the latest China Bayles mystery. China is a strong enough character to hold her own when the secondary characters are not present. I found this book to be fascinating. The subplots were interesting and the characters were well-defined and credible. The author presented a family tree at the beginning, so it was not confusing keeping the family members straight. It was good for China to get away from Pecan Springs and interact with her mother more. This book could be read and enjoyed by those who have never read any others in the series. It's an excellent story.
Rating: 5
Summary: Something different but very good in this mystery series
Comment: China Bayles is a self made independent woman who turned her back on her mother's Mississippi family because she refused to conform to the old South's vision of how a woman should behave. She lives in Pecan Springs, Texas with her husband and stepson. She proudly owns the Thyme and Sears herb shop and is co-owner of Thyme for Tea teashop. She has no plans to return to the family plantation of Jordan's Crossing until her mother calls her because she needs her help.
When China arrives at the old homestead, she learns that her great-aunt Tullie, a victim of Huntington's Disease, has struck down the plantation manager in a pique of anger. China's mother argues with her daughter that the irate manager walked out of the house enraged, but he has since disappeared. The police want to question Tullie about the spat. As China struggles to balance family loyalty with her legal responsibilities, she unearths secrets that should stay buried in the land that created them.
This is a different China Bayles unlike the one readers have come to know and love. The audience sees her as a true daughter of the south, fully cognizant of the rules, expectations and ties that bind her to a place she no longer can call home but has a hold on her loyalties. There are mysteries aplenty in BLOODROOT, some of them of the otherworldly kind. The author allows us to see, through the fist person narrative, how a Southern woman copes with her environment. This is a wonderful reading experience.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: Roots rooted in mystery and blood lines
Comment: The importance of your ancestry is never more solidly touted than when it comes to discovering what genetic ailments one might have passed on to his or her progeny. And thus, Aunt Tullie's ailment, the curse of Huntington's chorea, comes head on to both China Bayles and her estranged mother. And part of the poignancy of this mystery is China's forced link to her mother and her Mississippi heritage, something China has set aside in her adult life.
The strong female role that epitomizes China Bayles life in each of the novels Albert has written of her is now exposed at its roots, and we see a strong and successful female who precedes China and her mother in Aunt Tullie. But with each discovery of what really ails her aunt, China and her mother both have to face the likelihood that they will both face a similar fate, fighting a disease for which there is no known cure, a decline to death that brings on a tortuous end. The reader can't help but hope that part of the mystery will be solved and that there will be some reason why China will not inherit this fate.
With China displaced from her usual Texas base, she is not the business woman we usually encounter. Instead, she is the guest of her past and must face the close and haunting memories of her childhood, which come to her in dreams of vignettes played out in the moonlit grounds of her ancestor's home.
This is a good ol' Southern set mystery, not as violent as a James Lee Burke tale but nicely eerie. And the departure from the Texas setting is not disconcerting at all. "Bloodroot" just enriches the reader's understanding of China, who will appear in several more volumes of Albert's imaginings. Fun reading, suspenseful and poignant with good food in all the right places.
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Title: Mistletoe Man by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 0425182010 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Lavender Lies: A China Bayles Mystery by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 0425177009 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Indigo Dying by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 0425193772 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Chile Death: A China Bayles Mystery by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 0425171477 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Love Lies Bleeding: A China Bayles Mystery by Susan Wittig Albert ISBN: 0425166112 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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