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Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is "in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum" ( Publishers Weekly ). In Widow's Tears , a haunted house may hold the key to solving the murder of one of China's friends... After losing her family and home in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Rachel Blackwood rebuilt her house a hundred miles inland and later died there, still wrapped in her grief. In present-day Texas, Claire, the grandniece of Rachel's caretaker, has inherited the house and wants to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. But she is concerned that it's haunted, so she calls in her friend Ruby--who has the gift of extrasensory perception--to check it out. While Ruby is ghost hunting, China Bayles walks into a storm of trouble in nearby Pecan Springs. A half hour before she is to make her nightly deposit, the Pecan Springs bank is robbed and a teller is shot and killed. Before she can discover the identity of the killers, China follows Ruby to the Blackwood house to discuss urgent business. As she is drawn into the mystery of the haunted house, China opens the door on some very real danger...
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:042525464X
ISBN13:9780425254646
Release Date:April 2014
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.37 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 6.8"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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6 customer ratings | 2 reviews
Rated 5 starsAmazing book
By Thriftbooks.com User,
I was checking this author out the other day and had to run to town later and went into dollar tree and there sitting on their shelf right in front was this book and the author I was curious about so I bought it. Boy am I glad I did what an amazing story. And how ironic the story line talks about a hurricane that happened in Galveston Texas in 1900 that part is true, and with everything people are going through with Harvey...
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