Bloodroot

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

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

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

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

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