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    Spanish Dagger
    Spanish Dagger
    Spanish Dagger
    Audiobook9 hours

    Spanish Dagger

    Written by Susan Wittig Albert

    Narrated by Julia Gibson

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    About this audiobook

    In this 15th entry in the best-selling China Bayles series, our teashop owning heroine discovers a dead body while gathering herbs by the railroad tracks. On top of that, her brother unearths new evidence suggesting their father's death was no accident, and China is soon dragged into both mysteries. Luckily for her, "when China starts snooping, she finds several closets full of the kind of secrets that produce corpses" (Booklist).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 27, 2009
    ISBN9781440773976
    Spanish Dagger
    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
      China find a body in a yucca plant while searching for herbs and it turns out to be her friend Ruby’s ex-lover, a local resident t who appears to have had a double life.
    • 5/5
      This book makes me want to go outside and harvest some yucca for my own papermaking adventure.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: While gathering Spanish Dagger leaves for paper making, China and a friend discover the body of Ruby's boyfriend; of course, he's been murdered. This also raises the question of whether he was still an under-cover officer or involved in some sort of illegal activities. Ruby is away dealing with her mother's onset of dementia; McQuaid is off investigating the 16-year old death of China's father.Review: This is one of the better stories in that it deals with aging parents in an effective and sensitive manner and the mystery is nicely convoluted.
    • 2/5
      Ruby was away dealing with her mother for most of this book and the dynamic that you've come to expect between the regular characters felt completely off as a result. Definitely NOT my favorite book in the series. Also, I love how many times she talks about "chain evidence" only to ignore her own advice at critical junctures.
    • 3/5
      China Bayles and her guest Carole discover the corpse of Ruby's ex-boyfriend Colin among some yucca plants by the railroad. She calls her friend Sheila, the chief of police. At the same time her step-brother Miles wants to investigate the car accident that killer her father years earlier and hires her ex-cop (now PI) husband McQuaid to work on the case. Resolution for the investigation into her father's death is supposed to take place in the next installment Nightshade. It becomes apparent that Colin's death is somehow related to his past uncover work in drug enforcement. There's a lot of action in this one. China seems to get herself into a lot of situations that she should probably have avoided. The star of the show ends up being Colin's Rottweiler.
    • 3/5
      Susan Wittig Albert always laces her China Bayles mysteries liberally with local color and interesting details. While the characters in this series are getting a little stale, the plot is still quirky and puzzling, and it's always good to visit with old friends. Albert writes well, and the story never drags, yet there is enough detail to flesh out the bones of the plot.
    • 3/5
      Albert is doing something a bit different with these last couple of books. She's developing a crisis in the backstory that will span at least three books and it supposed to be the primary focus of the next book, I believe. Because of that, it felt like she wasn't giving proper attention to the matter at hand, which was the murders in THIS book. Because of this, I can't rate this book as highly as I usually do.
    • 4/5
      China and her friend find a body while gathering agave leaves for a project at her shop. The dead man is the former boyfriend of her friend, Ruby Wilcox. China gets involved in the investigation with Sheila, aka Smart Cookie, who is the chief of police. China rescues the Rottweiler belonging to the dead man at Ruby's insistence and discovers that the dog was a trained scent dog. McQuaid meanwhile, is investigating the death of her father, having been hired by her half-brother Miles. This part of the story is a carry-over from the last book and will be solved in Nightshade. Enjoyable. I like how the author includes the information about herbs into the beginning of each chapter.