Nominated for both Agatha and Anthony Awards, Susan Wittig Albert's best-selling series has taken root with mystery fans who delight in the exploits of ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles. Now China must put her upcoming nuptials on the back burner when a murder investigation entangles her friends and neighbors...
"Good riddance" is the response of every Pecan Springs resident to the murder of Edgar Coleman, a local real estate shark found shot to death in his garage. With the small-town gossip mill running full tilt, it doesn't take long for China to learn that Coleman was having numerous affairs and was blackmailing City Council members for their votes on a bad land development deal.
With her fiance\ interim police chief Mike McQuaid, immersed in the murder investigation-and the suspect list growing longer by the minute-China can forget about a honeymoon, unless she can find the killer. As China investigates, she starts digging up dirt on people she knows-and unearthing secrets best left six feet under...
