Queen Annes Lace, Susan Wittig Albert
Queen Annes Lace, Susan Wittig Albert
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Queen Anne's Lace

Author: Susan Wittig Albert

Narrator: Julia Gibson, Linda Stephens

Unabridged: 10 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/03/2018


Synopsis

A present day ghost leads China Bayles to a secret from Pecan Springs's past in this haunting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert. While helping Ruby Wilcox clean up the loft above their shops, China comes upon a box of antique handcrafted lace and old photographs. Following the discovery, she hears a woman humming an old Scottish ballad and smells the delicate scent of lavender.... Soon, strange happenings start to occur in Thyme and Seasons: misplaced items, a ringing bell, and the appearance of lavender sprigs in odd places. When a customer mentions seeing a mysterious woman picking flowers nearby and then suddenly disappearing, China must finally admit what Ruby has always known--their building is haunted. But by whom? As China investigates, the tragic story of a woman in one of the old photographs unfolds. Annie Laurie was a young widow who'd lost both her husband and her child in the same day. She manages to survive through her lace-making business and finds happiness again only to have a suspicious death overshadow her new life. China delves into Annie's century-old mystery and realizes that solving it could have unimaginable repercussions in the here and now.

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

China Bayles has a ghost problem. It all starts when she and her friend Ruby Wilcox starts to clean up the loft about their shop Thyme and Seasons. China finds a box of handcrafted lace and old photographs in the loft, but when she is temporary alone in there and the light goes out does she hear a w......more

Goodreads review by Bree

Now granted I had spring break but still this book is one that you won’t come up from till the very last page. I loved the dual time settings, one in the present with a China and another set in the 1880’s with Annie. The mystery is woven between the past and present but it one that will also remind......more

Goodreads review by Betty

Thanks to Overdrive and Meridian Library for my copy. The 26 th volume of the China Bayles herb series does Not disappoint and other goods go on another herb Queen Anne Lace that grows along the ditches and road throughout the country. It was used by the immigrants for family planning and the seed w......more

I will never argue the fact that Susan Wittig Albert is a wonderful author. Her writing is easy to read. It has a flowing quality that keeps you reading long after you have planned to stop. Just one more page. One more chapter. You know the kind. And her knowledge of the plants she uses in each of h......more