| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
284 pages : 24 cm. |
| Series |
China Bayles mystery ; [27]
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| Note |
Includes recipes. |
| Summary |
"China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual ''Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop,'' always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & 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. 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. 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."--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Herbalists -- Fiction.
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Women detectives -- Texas -- Fiction.
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Vanilla -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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College teachers -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Mystery fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780998233208 (hardcover) |
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099823320X (hardcover) |
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