ReviewsPraise for Witches' Bane and the China Bayles Mysteries "[China Bayles is] in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Delightful...A refreshing heroine...Entertaining and engaging."-- Booklist "Albert's characters are as real and as quirkly as your next-door neighbor."-- The Raleigh News & Observer "A brilliant [and] entertaining detective writer...Albert artfully [brings] the down-home town of Pecan Springs alive."-- The Dallas Morning News "A unique series."-- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Series Volume Number2
Grade ToUP
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisHerb shop owner China Bayles is shocked when Halloween hijinks take a gruesome turn... In a small Texas town, what starts as a little festive Halloween fun ends in a brutal murder. And lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles is even more shocked when her friend Ruby, a New Age expert in tarot and astrology, becomes the prime suspect after a minister accuses her of witchcraft. Now it's up to China to unmask the real killer...