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    Lavender Lies
    Lavender Lies
    Lavender Lies
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Lavender Lies

    Written by Susan Wittig Albert

    Narrated by Susan Wittig Albert

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A national best-selling mystery series with an herbal theme, centered around the exploits of ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles. In this installment, China must put her upcoming nuptials on the back burner when a murder investigation entangles her friends and neighbors.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateNov 1, 1999
    ISBN9781598872118
    Lavender Lies
    Author

    Susan Wittig Albert

    Susan Wittig Albert is the New York Times bestselling author of over one hundred books. Her work includes four mystery series: China Bayles, the Darling Dahlias, the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and the Robin Paige Victorian Mysteries. She has also published three award-winning historical novels as well as YA fiction, memoirs, and nonfiction. She and her husband live in Texas Hill Country, where she writes, gardens, and raises an assortment of barnyard creatures.

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    • 4/5
      The usual from Susan Wittig Albert -- a pleasantly complicated plot, intertwined sub-plots, eccentric characters and top-notch writing.
    • 3/5
      If you have the book you will notice a great deal of it is left out of this reading. All the cute details and happenings outside of the murder plot that makes these books charming is completely left out… possibly to make sure it fits the two hour limit. What a bummer.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: Will China and McQuaid ever get married? Not if people keep getting killed in Pecan Springs. Once again, China and Ruby unearth clues that help the police track down a murderer; they also help a mother find her kidnapped daughter.Review: Although this book is a solidly written as readers have come to expect, it also has several scenes that make you laugh out loud.
    • 4/5


      I have read all of the books in this series up through this one (book #8) and will continue to do so. I have really enjoyed all of them ( except one which I can't talk about because that would be a spoiler). China Bayles is the main character in all of the books. She's a former Houston lawyer who now lives in the fictional town of Pecan Springs which is in the Texas hill country. They are all murder mystery stories but not the gory, scary, hardcore stuff. There are reoccurring main characters who you will feel like you know as you read the books. It's small town Texas life and the stories are enjoyable, light reading. They were recommended to me and I will do the same to you. Read them in order so things will make sense :)
    • 3/5
      "Damn it. This is my wedding. Why can't the week be normal?"After I discovered Thyme of Death, I went a little overboard and tried to get the whole China Bayles series - I ended up with one paperback and two audio downloads. This was the paperback... Eminently readable (this was one of 2 1/2 books I read on New Year's Eve, content on the chaise longue outside my uncle's caravan at Tuross), yet missing something in that fantastic idea collection of the first book.So China Bayles has quit her toxic lawyering in Houston for Mean Nasty Companies and retired to a little place called Pecan Springs where she runs a herb shop and her shop-neighbour is a crazy new Age lady called Ruby, and they are about to open a joint tea room. Local real estate mogul found dead. Most residents think "Good riddance", but it transpires rather quickly that Mr. Coleman was having a number of affairs and was blackmailing city council members for their support on a dodgy land investment deal. And then a few more bodies pile up...Oh and China is planning her wedding (at last) to McQuaid, acting chief of police, so the case needs to be wrapped up by Saturday otherwise China's honeymoon is going to get derailed.I love a single lady investigator, and I've raved about the first book in this series; something in this one left me underwhelmed. It might have been that there was too much side chatter and not enough actual case; Ruby seems to have got even more mad and tipped over into caricature territory, and Wittig Albert is a little heavy-handed with the emotional preaching (China fiiiiiiiiiiiiinally gets over her issues with her mother).That all notwithstanding, there are any number of red herrings, I didn't guess the bad guy, China's life is quite amusing to read about, Ruby does provide a lot of amusement and China does a nifty amount of sleuthing in a rather clever manner.It's a decent detective story, it's just not as good as the first one in the series was.
    • 5/5
      At last, China and McQuaid get married, but not before having to solve a murder or two in the week leading up to the wedding. In fact, McQuaid doesn't want to leave until it's all tied up which is not making him the least bit popular on the home front. So China and Ruby decide to lend a helping hand.The murder is solved a good chapter before the end of the book, the final chapter deals with the wedding which goes nothing like to plan, but is memorable.
    • 5/5
      All China is trying to do is plan one simple little wedding with a nice little honeymoon afterwards for her and her long-time beau, Mike McQuaid. And then the sleaziest real estate shark in Pecan Springs turns up dead in his own garage, shot through the face at close range with a small caliber gun. Since McQuaid is acting as the interim police chief while the city council decides who to hire permanently, the case is squarely in his lap and he's bound and determined to give it his full attention at the very time that China would like a little bit of that attention, if you would be so kind. She decides to start digging on her own with the help of her friends Ruby and Sheila and it isn't long before she unearths information that the murdered man was blackmailing nearly the entire city council and the mayor to boot, to try to force a new zoning ordinance for his latest real estate venture. With a list of suspects as long as the train on her wedding dress, they've both got their work cut out for them to try to get this case solved before the church bells ring. And when another body turns up, so does the heat. Unless China wants to go on that honeymoon all by her lonesome, something's got to give.This was a very satisfying read, which for me was all about the backstory. I'm glad to see China finally married to McQuaid. Again, another interesting mystery, skillfully told, with characters I really like coming back to visit. I'll give it a 4.5