A plain vanilla murder
Albert, Susan Wittig2019
Large Print
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.
Main title:
A plain vanilla murder / Susan Wittig Albert.
Author:
Albert, Susan Wittig, author
Work:
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2019.©2019.
Collation:
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Series title:
China Bayles mysteries ; 27.
ISBN:
14328652939781432865290
Dewey class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
513011