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From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times best-selling author of Queen Anne’s Lace, comes an intriguing new addition to her widely-acclaimed China Bayles Mysteries. ​China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual “Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop,” always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief’s desk, is investigating the death of a botany professor, a prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor’s ex-wife and a prime suspect in his murder. However, there’s no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent little girl. A Plain Vanilla Murder is a flavorful blend of mystery and herb lore, present sins and past secrets, and characters who are as real as your next-door neighbors—stirred together in an absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create.
From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times best-selling author of Queen Anne's Lace, comes an intriguing new addition to her widely-acclaimed China Bayles Mysteries.? ?China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany professor, a prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor's ex-wife and a prime suspect in his murder.? However, there's no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent little girl. A Plain Vanilla Murder is a flavorful blend of mystery and herb lore, present sins and past secrets, and characters who are as real as your next-door neighbors--stirred together in an absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create.
A cooking reality show is the stuff of dreams when you own an up-and-coming bakery. Being suspected of murdering one of the judges is not. With Chas far away and storm clouds gathering, Missy has to rely on unfamiliar allies in an unfamiliar place to find the true perpetrator before time runs out on her small screen dreams.
Ever want to host your own reality show?Truth can be stranger than reality TV!A cooking reality show is a dream come true for cupcake bakery owner, Missy Gladstone. Being suspected of murdering one of the judges is a nightmare. With her detective boyfriend, Chas Beckett, far away, and storm clouds of intrigue gathering, Missy has to rely on unfamiliar allies in an unfamiliar place, in order to find the real perpetrator.Will she solve the crime before time runs out on her small screen dreams?
First book in the Alexa Glock Mystery series! For a normal tourist, finding a body in a geothermal pool in New Zealand might ruin a vacation. Forensic specialist Alexa Glock, however, sees a chance to help local law enforcement with a baffling case. But as she finds herself embroiled in the tense investigation, she can't help but wonder: is the past better left undisturbed, or unearthed? These thrilling New Zealand mysteries are: Perfect for fans of Kathy Reichs and Nevada Barr For readers of international mysteries and forensic investigation mysteries When a body is found half-submerged in a molten mud pot in one of Rotorua's famous geothermal wonderlands, forensics expert Alexa Glock spots a way to prolong her stay in New Zealand, which she has been visiting for work. Teeth are her expertise, and the investigation needs her help, as other ways of identifying the body may have... melted away. Joining Detective Inspector Bruce Horne and his team, Alexa finds herself sleuthing out more than teeth. She soon discovers that the murder victim, a city councilman, had trespassed on an island sacred to the Maori. The ancient punishment for such a transgression is disaster, demonic possession, or death... and when she visits the island to investigate, the same outcome is promised for her. Alexa is fascinated by New Zealand culture but doesn't quite believe in ancient spirits returning to exact revenge, so when another victim turns up dead, she begins to wonder whether the real threat is something—or someone—much closer to home. A fast-paced forensic mystery set in New Zealand, Molten Mud Murder introduces Alexa Glock, an investigator with a knack for gleaning the truth from bones and teeth. Full of enough forensics and action for fans of Kathy Reichs or the tv series Bones, Sara E. Johnson presents a page-turning story about facing the past and cracking the door open to an unexpected future.
The Derby of Intolerable Suspense: 'Inspector,’ she said, ‘in this place, some experience far greater pleasure in seeing other men’s horses lose rather than see their own horse win!’ Nari Mansukhani, the notorious trainer, is shot dead at the racecourse. His murder triggers a chain of events which spiral out of control and rock the amoral world of horse racing, where fortunes are made or lost in less than 60 seconds. A deadly cocktail of scandal, doping, intrigue and betrayal perplexes the country’s top sleuths.
Books 4-5-6 of the bestselling Thaddeus Murfee series by John Ellsworth are offered in a box set at a very fair price. “The Mental Case,” “Defending Turquoise,” and “Chase, the Bad Baby" have received a combined 350+ FIVE-STAR reviews from readers in less than nine months. All three of the novels are consistently rated among the top-100 bestselling legal thrillers, mystery, suspense, crime, and all three are among the most highly-rated novels among retailers. Enjoy a quality set that will offer you more than twenty hours of pleasure and entertainment -- nearly 900 gripping pages of legal mystery, mystery series, organized crime danger, and intrigue. "If you like Reacher, the Lincoln Lawyer, Jake Brigance and John Grisham, you will love this Thaddeus Murfee crime thriller!” — Five-Star Review “Already John Ellsworth’s name is mentioned with Lee Child, Michael Connelly, and John Grisham when critics talk about legal/crime fiction.” --Five-Star Review "Every bit as good as Grisham! Superb characterization, suspense, drama.” - Five-Star Review Thaddeus Murfee novel categories include: - Legal Thrillers - Crime Thrillers - Legal Suspense - Lawyer Mysteries - Crime Fiction - Mystery Series - Romance Suspense - Organized Crime - Courtroom Thrillers - Courtroom Drama
From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of A Plain Vanilla Murder, comes a tightly crafted novel that juxtaposes the disappearance of a rare, remarkably illustrated 18th-century herbal with the true and all-too-human story of its gifted creator, Elizabeth Blackwell. ​Herbalist China Bayles’ latest adventure takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where her friend Dorothea Harper serves as the director and curator of the Hemlock House Library, a priceless collection of rare gardening books housed in a haunted mountainside mansion that once belonged to Sunny Carswell, a reclusive heiress. But the most valuable book—A Curious Herbal, created by Elizabeth Blackwell in the 1730s—is missing and Dorothea is under suspicion. China’s search for the thief takes on a new urgency when she discovers Miss Carswell’s bookseller, the victim of an attempted murder. Is his shooting connected with the theft? And there are other urgent questions: What is the Hemlock Guild? Who owns Socrates.com? Did Sunny Carswell really kill herself, or does her ghost have a different story to tell? And what is the real truth behind the many tantalizing mysteries of A Curious Herbal? Hemlock is a compelling mix of mystery and herb lore, past secrets and present sins, and characters who are as real as your friends and neighbors—in an absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create.
This book addresses potential avenues of criminal liability for public health crisis management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, under national and international criminal law, especially for causing death and bodily harm. The national case studies are geographically representative and follow a common research grid. Each national case study is prefaced by an overview of the detection and subsequent spread of the pandemic in the country concerned. The relevant legal and constitutional frameworks that governed the government and corporate conduct in the face of the pandemic are also discussed, followed by the consideration of forms of criminal liability. Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic differed vastly in terms of both the choice of strategies adopted (herd immunity, test-and-trace, lockdown, etc) and the quality and speed of government implementation of those strategies and associated interventions. Both factors impacted the number of infections and casualties. It is therefore appropriate to consider forms of criminal liability for failure of individual members of government, including specific public authorities, to act to the best of their abilities, as timely as possible, and in accordance with expert advice.
Someone is playing perfume-related pranks at Kantor's Department Store. So far, it's only an inconvenience; but when a perfume model is found murdered in Marissa Scott's office, things turn deadly serious. Since the body is