The latest novel in Susan Wittig Albert’s
It isn’t too long before China finds a body. This is a good, light mystery as you would expect from an Albert book. What I thought was a nice component of the novel was the parallel story that takes place in the same Shaker Village, but a hundred years earlier. I had heard of Shaker furniture, but did not know anything about the people. A deeply religious and chaste people, their story also involved intrigue, love, theft and murder.
The sixteenth in the China Bayles series, Nightshade
Nightshade is still an interesting book, however, if you have not read any of the others in the mystery series, read one of those first.
“Spanish dagger is one of the many folk names for that striking, statuesque plant, Yucca glauca…Spanish dagger can be seen along roadsides, in pastures and meadows, and across the arid plains. A plant of great and varied utility in many native cultures, it has supplied food, drink, medicine, clothing, footwear, and even construction materials.”
Spanish Dagger
