Widow's Tears

Name: Widow's Tears
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Susan Wittig Albert
ISBN: 9781470347666

Author: Susan Wittig Albert

Series: China Bayles Mysteries #19

Narrator: Morgan Hallett, Julia Gibson

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/24/2013

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

Best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert is especially beloved for creating herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles, hailed by Publishers Weekly as "in a class with lady sleuths V.I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum." In Widow's Tears, China has urgent business to discuss with Ruby, a friend gifted with extrasensory perception. Meeting Ruby at a supposedly haunted house, China soon uncovers a mystery that may be linked to a deadly robbery that very night.

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 Mary Kay

When I buy a China Bayles book I expect a murder mystery. Alas, this isn't a murder mystery; it's a ghost story. I hate ghost stories. Oh, there's a murder, but it was completely tacked on with no relationship to the main thrust of the story. What's more it was solved by pure serendipity, investigat......more

Goodreads review by Tanya

Wow! Page turner with terrific detailed research of hurricane that swept thru Galveston, TX in 1900. Part ghost story and flashback - a very well written. Fun read!......more

Goodreads review by Shirley

I love China Bayles and her friends, and especially her best friend Ruby Wilcox. This book is about Ruby and that makes it special. Kinky, psychic, red-haired Ruby is a real treasure, and has always been my favourite character in this series. Reading a book about her and her amazing personality was......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor

I've often admired the writing of this author and this series in particular, but this particular book blew me away. It was unexpected and fresh and different. Also intense and genuinely frightening. Susan's books are so well researched, have so many interesting tidbits and often relate to genuine hi......more