Hemlock, Susan Wittig Albert
Hemlock, Susan Wittig Albert
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Hemlock

Author: Susan Wittig Albert

Narrator: Julia Gibson

Unabridged: 10 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/07/2021

Synopsis

Herbalist China Bayles's latest adventure takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where her friend Dorothea Harper serves as the director and curator of the Hemlock House Library, a priceless collection of rare gardening books housed in a haunted mountainside mansion that once belonged to Sunny Carswell, a reclusive heiress. But the most valuable book—A Curious Herbal, created by Elizabeth Blackwell in the 1730s—is missing, and Dorothea is under suspicion. China's search for the thief takes on a new urgency when she discovers Miss Carswell's bookseller, the victim of an attempted murder. Is his shooting connected with the theft? And there are other urgent questions: What is the Hemlock Guild? Who owns Socrates.com? Did Sunny Carswell really kill herself, or does her ghost have a different story to tell? And what is the real truth behind the many tantalizing mysteries of A Curious Herbal? A compelling mix of mystery and herb lore, past secrets and present sins, and characters who are as real as your friends and neighbors, Hemlock is an absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create.

About Susan Wittig Albert

Susan Wittig Albert is the New York Times bestselling author of over one hundred books. Her work includes four mystery series: China Bayles, the Darling Dahlias, the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and the Robin Paige Victorian Mysteries. She has also published three award-winning historical novels as well as YA fiction, memoirs, and nonfiction. She and her husband live in Texas Hill Country, where she writes, gardens, and raises an assortment of barnyard creatures.

About Julia Gibson

Julia Gibson is an experienced narrator and professional actor with over twenty years of experience. After receiving her MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, she has gone on to perform on Broadway and in major theatres throughout New York City and the country. Additionally, she has recorded over fifty audiobooks and enjoys teaching acting, improv, and workshops.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on October 07, 2021

It must be difficult to keep coming up with new ideas for the China Bayles series--but Albert has done a good job here, taking Bayles out of her TX hill country m.o. into the mountains of North Carolina. And--she's included a mini-book, written by a grad student student China finds herself working w......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on December 02, 2022

That’s the end of the series for me with one exception. My library didn’t have Book #12, A Dilly of a Death, so I skipped it. I just had the library search the interstate library system, so one is on its way from somewhere in Florida!! This final installment took China to North Carolina - an old cree......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on May 02, 2022

This is one of my favorite China Bayles titles. The story as well paced, and quite interesting!......more

Goodreads review by Angela on October 26, 2021

I've always enjoyed the China Bayles series but I have felt, for the last few books, that the tank was running out of gas and that feeling continued with this book. The mystery was boring and the conclusion was anti-climatic. I missed the usual cast of background characters and setting. China seemed......more

Goodreads review by Jan on September 24, 2021

This is book 28 in the China Bayles and with the exception of two, I’ve loved them all. Unfortunately, this is one of the two that I only just sort of liked. While it’s nice to have China out of Pecan Springs every once in awhile, I miss her having at least one of her regular characters with her whe......more

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