Bloodroot, Susan Wittig Albert
Bloodroot, Susan Wittig Albert
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Bloodroot

Author: Susan Wittig Albert

Narrator: Julia Gibson

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/13/2008


Synopsis

In Bloodroot, best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert transports listeners to a haunted house oozing with family secrets. When a man dies soon after Tullie bashes his head with her cane, China's estranged mother frantically calls for her daughter's help. Rushing to her family's Mississippi plantation, China must determine if her Great Aunt Tullie is guilty of homicide. She must also face the possibility of developing the same terrifying disease that tortures Tullie.

About Susan Wittig Albert

Susan Wittig Albert is the New York Times bestselling author of A Wilder Rose, about Rose Wilder Lane and the writing of the Little House books. Her award-winning fiction also includes mysteries in the China Bayles series, the Darling Dahlias, the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and a series of Victorian-Edwardian mysteries she has written with her husband, Bill Albert, under the pseudonym of Robin Paige. She is founder and current president of the Story Circle Network and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alannah on December 22, 2012

In #10 of the China Bayles series, China responds to an urgent phone call from her mother and goes back to her childhood home in Mississippi - to the family plantation and the past from which she had turned away. Too many of the cozy mysteries I've been reading lack depth, especially when it comes t......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on October 06, 2019

When ex-defense attorney, cum herbal store and tea room owner, China Bayles, is called back to her families Mississippi homestead to help ferry out the truth behind a recently found centuries old deed, it’s more than skeletons in the closet that are exposed. Leaving her own family and life in Texas,......more

Goodreads review by Patrizia on June 02, 2022

4 stelle e mezza In questo libro la protagonista indaga su vecchi segreti e misteri che riguardano la sua famiglia materna. Devo dire che la storia mi è piaciuta molto, ma ho tolto mezza stella per la presenza di probabili fantasmi: il racconto avrebbe anche potuto fare a meno di questo aspetto. Dev......more

Goodreads review by Jasmine on January 07, 2011

China Bayles goes home, to her ancestral manor house in the swamps of the South, looking for answers to the mysteries of her own family tree. This was my first China Bayles mystery, and I enjoyed it. The herbalism, the pervasive, odorous mugginess of the swamps, the heavy feel of generations of confl......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on May 19, 2020

It seems that I have a love-hate relationship with the China Bales series. Some of the titles are so entertaining while others are just exhausting. I forged ahead to finish this book, but wish I hadn’t.......more