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Dead Man's Bones

Susan Wittig Albert’s exciting mysteries have been praised as “unique” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) and “fascinating” (Booklist). Now, a dead man’s bones are uncovered — and Texas ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles must dig into a pair of murders separated by time but connected by motive... When China’s teenage son finds some skeletal remains during a local cave dig — remains that show a not-so-accidental death — it’s a disturbing development. But China doesn’t let it distract her from the opening of the new community theater donated by the elderly Obermann sisters. Unfortunately, the haughty, bullying Jane Obermann — and her frail, frightened younger sister — made the donation with a condition: that the first production be a play written by Jane about their aristocratic family history.

The premiere party ends with a bang when a ne’er-do-well local handyman is shot dead by Jane while breaking into the Obermann estate. It seems like a clear-cut case of self-defense. But China senses something else going on behind the scenes. Now, the key to catching a killer might be the mysterious bones in the cave — a clue from the past that could help China solve a mystery in the present...

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 291
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780425204252
  • Characters
  • China Bayles, Mike McQuaid, Ruby Wilcox
  • Settings
  • Pecan Springs, Texas
  • Genres
  • mystery, fiction, audiobook, adult, crime, southern, romance
  • Release date
  • 2006