02824cam a2200313 4500 528337762 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780998233222 0998233226 B07PJQKVNY Amazon 6bcc9dad-a74c-473c-aaf2-376b858e64f7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4727127 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Albert Susan Wittig. A Plain Vanilla Murder [Libby eBook] : China Bayles Mystery #27. Persevero Press, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 818kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:From Susan Wittig Albert, the <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author of <i>Queen Anne's Lace</i>, comes an intriguing new addition to her widely-acclaimed China Bayles Mysteries.<br /> ​China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme &amp; Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder.<br /> Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany professor, a prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor's ex-wife and a prime suspect in his murder.<br /> However, there's no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent little girl.<br /> <i>A Plain Vanilla Murder</i> is a flavorful blend of mystery and herb lore, present sins and past secrets, and characters who are as real as your next-door neighbors—stirred together in an absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6bcc9dad-a74c-473c-aaf2-376b858e64f7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6bcc9dad-a74c-473c-aaf2-376b858e64f7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6bcc9dad-a74c-473c-aaf2-376b858e64f7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)