Death Come Quickly (China Bayles Series #22)

by Susan Wittig Albert

Overview

In this thrilling mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles finds herself on the trail of a nearly fifteen-year-old cold case…

When China and Ruby’s friend Karen Prior is mugged in a mall parking lot and dies a few days later, China begins to suspect that her friend’s death was not a random assault. Karen was a filmmaker supervising a student documentary about the almost fifteen-year-old murder of a woman named Christine Morris and the acquittal of the man accused of the crime. Is it possible that the same person who killed Christine Morris targeted Karen?

Delving into the cold case, China learns the motive for the first murder may be related to a valuable collection of Mexican art. Enlisting the help of her San Antonio lawyer friend Justine Wyzinski—aka the Whiz—China is determined to track down the murderer. But is she painting herself into a corner from which there’s no escape?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101638866
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/2014
Series:	China Bayles Series , #22
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	129,249
File size:	997 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT grew up on a farm in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. A former professor of English and a university administrator and vice president, she is the New York Times bestselling author of the China Bayles Mysteries, the Darling Dahlias Mysteries, and the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter. She and her husband, Bill, coauthor a series of Victorian-Edwardian mysteries under the name Robin Paige. The Alberts live near Austin, Texas.

Date of Birth:

1940

Place of Birth:

Danville, Illinois

Education:

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for Susan Wittig Albert’s China Bayles Mysteries

“One of the best-written and [most] well-plotted mysteries I’ve read in a long time.” —Los Angeles Times

“Such a joy…An instant friend.”—Carolyn G. Hart, national bestselling author of Dead, White, and Blue

“Albert’s dialogue and characterizations put her in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum.”—Publishers Weekly

“[Albert] consistently turns out some of the best-plotted mysteries on the market.” —Houston Chronicle

Editorial Reviews

02/17/2014
The fatal mugging of Karen Prior in a west Texas mall kicks off Albert’s perky 22nd mystery featuring herbalist and former lawyer China Bayles (after 2013’s Widow’s Tears). Before she died, Karen, a teacher friend of China’s, was supervising a student documentary on the murder of local art lover Christine Morris some 15 years earlier. The man charged with Morris’s murder and later acquitted was an apparent suicide. How the deaths fit together and their relationship to the Mexican art market is murky indeed. The book’s first half meanders along, nice for readers interested in the minutiae of China’s life, a tad boring for everyone else. But the pace picks up when China gets serious about the investigation. China gets help from her best friend and business partner, Ruby Wilcox, whose thinking is strictly intuitive, and her investigator husband, Mike McQuaid, who, like law enforcement husbands everywhere, tries to keep her from getting involved. Albert skillfully weaves legal and herbal information into the plot. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Susan Wittig Albert’s New York Times bestselling China Bayles Mysteries

“[Albert] consistently turns out some of the best-plotted mysteries on the market.”—Houston Chronicle 

“Engrossing...China continues to appeal with her herbal information and savvy sleuthing.”—Booklist (starred review)

“[China Bayles is] such a joy…An instant friend.”—Carolyn Hart, New York Times bestselling author

 “One of the best-written and [most] well-plotted mysteries I’ve read in a long time.”—Los Angeles Times

“Albert’s dialogue and characterizations put her in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum.”—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher