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Early in this intelligent addition to herbalist China Bayles's adventures (Thyme of Death; Rosemary Remembered), one character laments that she has given up reading about women detectives because they are all "Raymond Chandler in drag.... Lotta guts, no soul." Wittig takes up the challenge, showing how to do it right with quiet humor and only an occasional overload of introspection. Exhausted by the Christmas season and her new roommates, love interest Mike McQuaid and his 12-year-old son, China takes off for a retreat at St. Theresa's Monastery in Texas's remote and wild Yucca River country with friend Maggie Garrett, a former nun. In spite of its tranquil appearance, the religious order is in a state of turmoil. Having received a legacy worth millions, St. Theresa's has merged with another order which wants to use the money to open a high-powered retreat center. The two sides are hopelessly deadlocked when the Reverend Mother, the tie-breaking vote, dies mysteriously. China agrees to look into the death. Her investigation quickly takes on urgency when threatening events ensue: someone shoots at her, some small fires are set and she finds the deadly herb rue growing in the garden. Even when the stakes seem too high or unlikely for ordinary life, Wittig manages to make them mostly believable, mainly because China's character is credible (when she makes a mistake, she gets embarrassed). Albert gives readers a page-turner and soul to spare.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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Delightful series sleuth China Bayles, owner of a small-town herb shop, is vexed by troubles at a Texas convent where the mother superior has just died. More quality diversion from the author of Thyme of Death (LJ 10/1/92).
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 China Bayles on retreat?, Avril 10 2002
This review is from: Rueful Death (Paperback)
In Rueful Death, China finds herself involuntarily and unwittingly tricked into using her amateau detective skills. China has decided to take a two-week retreat at St. T's convent in order to wind down from the busy holidays. While there, she is asked to look into a series of fires. This book is different from Albert's others in such that you don't really want to choose a suspect, because who wants to think that a nun, or anybody working at a convent, is behind all the trouble? China also happens to run into a hunky ex-beau that she knew from her lawyer days. China doesn't get much rest on this retreat, but she does catch the firebug. Pretty much par for course in this series.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Get thee to a nunnery!, Juil 6 2001
Par Sharon Knutson "chinamomma" (St. Paul, MN USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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China has survived the Christmas rush at her herb shop but is sadly in need of some private time. So off she goes to a nunnery! Together with her friend Maggie, she heads off to a remote nunnery where the sisters grow amazing garlic. Instead of the peace and quiet she longs for, China finds herself embroiled in a contentious power struggle between two groups of nuns working to combine two disparate orders into one. As the sister's jockey for position, fires break out and several mysterious deaths occur. If that wasn't enough, China runs into an old beau and the heat is still there. As she works to solve the nunnery mystery she is making major life choices for herself. Once again, I enjoyed the ride and learned more about herbs and gardening.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 I agree, Not Her Best, Avril 12 2001
Par S. Schwartz "romonko" (alberta canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I was so excited to find this series, and I've enjoyed all the books so far. I enjoyed this one too, but it was not her best. I really missed Ruby. We only see her at the beginning, and there were no real harmless eccentrics in this one, and I think that is what Ms. Albert does so well. Also, the mysteries were a little simple compared to her other plots. I will continue to read the series because I love China Bayles so much. I'm also curious to see what she does with her life after she has reflected in the nunnery.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Will Someone Get Away With Murder?
Another remarkably resourceful Texas cozy mystery, featuring China Bayles, former lawyer turned herb shop owner. Read more
Publié le Avril 4 2001 par Mamalinde

4.0étoiles sur 5 More murder in a nunnery
China Bayles gets out of Pecan Springs for a while, but doesn't get away from murder. Her friend Maggie arranges for the two of them to go on a retreat at her former home, but... Read more
Publié le Janv. 3 2001 par Moe811

5.0étoiles sur 5 Definitely Her Best -- So Far!
I just became acquainted with this author's series recently. I read (and enjoyed) Thyme of Death, and Witch's Bane, but this book is the best so far!! Read more
Publié le Mai 3 1999

3.0étoiles sur 5 Not Her Best
Susan Albert writes great mystery books but this one is not up to her usual high standards. Her sleuth, China Bayles, has been uprooted from Pecan Springs and transplanted in an... Read more
Publié le Nov. 26 1998 par puffinswan

5.0étoiles sur 5 This was a great story!
How can you not like China Bayles? She is the kind of character that it truely believable. I enjoyed this story because of the unusual setting -- at St. Read more
Publié le Aoû 28 1998

4.0étoiles sur 5 Terror Stalks a Community of Nuns
Rueful Death by Susan Wittig Albert takes place in a community of nuns. China Bayles, herb store proprietor, feeling hemmed in and increasingly entangled in domesticity, decides... Read more
Publié le Nov. 20 1996

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