Synopses & Reviews
Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is back in New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert's Death Come Quickly. This time a friends murder may be the key to solving a nearly fifteen-year-old cold case
When China and Rubys friend Karen Prior is mugged in a mall parking lot and dies a few days later, China begins to suspect that her friends death was not a random assault. Karen was a filmmaker supervising a student documentary about the almost fifteen-year-old murder of a woman named Christine Morris and the acquittal of the man accused of the crime. Is it possible that the same person who killed Christine Morris targeted Karen?
Delving into the cold case, China learns the motive for the first murder may be related to a valuable collection of Mexican art. Enlisting the help of her San Antonio lawyer friend Justine Wyzinskiaka the WhizChina is determined to track down the murderer. But is she painting herself into a corner from which theres no escape?
Review
Praise for Susan Wittig Alberts China Bayles Mysteries “One of the best-written and [most] well-plotted mysteries Ive read in a long time.”—Los Angeles Times “Such a joy… An instant friend.”—Carolyn Hart, New York Times bestselling author “Alberts dialogue and characterizations put her in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum.”—Publishers Weekly “[Albert] consistently turns out some of the best-plotted mysteries on the market.” —Houston Chronicle
Synopsis
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
About the Author
Susan Wittig Albert grew up on a farm in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. A former professor of English and a university administrator and vice president, she is the author of the China Bayles Mysteries, the Darling Dahlias Mysteries, and the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter. Some of her recent titles include Widow's Tears, Cat's Claw, The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose, and The Tale of Castle Cottage. She and her husband, Bill, coauthor a series of Victorian-Edwardian mysteries under the name Robin Paige, which includes such titles as Death at Glamis Castle and Death at Whitechapel.