ISBN |
9781432865290 |
1432865293 |
Name |
Albert, Susan Wittig author. |
Title |
A plain vanilla murder / Susan Wittig Albert. |
Edition |
Large print edition. |
Published |
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2019. |
©2019 |
Description |
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
Summary |
China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany professor, a prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor's ex-wife and a prime suspect in his murder. However, there's no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent little girl. |
Subjects |
Herbalists -- Fiction |
Women detectives -- Fiction |
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
Vanilla -- Fiction |
Bayles, China (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. |
Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction |
Large type books |
Series |
China Bayles mysteries 27. |
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