Rosemary Remembered (China Bayles Mystery) | Susan Wittig Albert

Rosemary Remembered (China Bayles Mystery) | Susan Wittig Albert | Murder, Mystery and Mayhem

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	Rosemary Remembered (China Bayles Mystery) Susan Wittig Albert Berkley, 1996 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

When her accountant, Rosemary, is killed, ex-lawyer and herb-shop proprietor China Bayles finds a host of suspects that includes an abusive ex-husband and several former clients. Reprint.

Definitely a great read!

China finds her (and nearly everybody else's) accountant shot in McQuaid's blue truck, which they had borrowed to Rosemary. This happens shortly after a convicted killer, who McQuaid helped to put behind bars and who threatened to get even, was relased. Rosemary happens to resemble China at first glance and she was driving McQuaid's truck. Who shot Rosemary who was recently divorced from an abusive husband (who happens to manage a gunshop) and was involved with one of the local hotel co-owners? Did anybody really know Rosemary? Did she have a secret agenda? Why has the man she was involved with gone on a fishing trip shortly before Rosemary was killed? The hotel co-owner's brother-in-law (who owns the other half of the hotel) sends McQuaid after him to bring him back, but where did Jeff really go?
China, who in the meantime has moved in with McQuaid, Brian and all his animals, is not only busy preparing a conventionof herbalists in Pecan Springs but also busy to find out about the motif for Rosemary's murder as well as her killer.
Even though Pecan Springs is fictional, everyone who knows the Texas Hill County will immediately feel familiar with places and people. Susan Wittig Albert gets better and better! I think it is a good idea to make references to previous novels, because readers not familiar with them will know what has happened before and can start with any book of this series. Read this book and you will get hooked

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Murder, Mystery and Mayhem

This is the fourth China Bayles mystery I've read, since I'm reading them in the order published. These books keep getting better and better. While her first three books were great, this one, "Rosemary Remembered," is her best yet. I love her characters. China Bayles keeps growing on me and now I feel like I know her personally. I just love her best friend Ruby. What a great character! And I enjoy watching China's relationship with McQuaid and his son evolve. Susan Wittig Albert has done a marvelous job of creating an entire town and true-to-life characters to populate it. I highly recommend this book to all mystery lovers.

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Just Enough

A murderer that Mike McQuaid helped put away years ago when he was still a
cop, has been released with a powerful grudge he's been nursing against
McQuaid for years now. Then Rosemary Robbins, a local tax accountant,
borrows McQuaid's pick up truck to move some furniture, and is found shot to
death in the cab of the truck, sitting in her own driveway. McQuaid is
convinced it's a case of mistaken identity and that his old nemesis had
thought he was killing China. His protective instincts kick into high gear
and McQuaid is determined to protect both China and his son Brian from this
killer's revenge, whether they like it or not. But China's not so sure and
starts investigating to figure out just who Rosemary really was and why
someone might want her dead. With the help of her friend Ruby Wilcox, and
Ruby's New Age friends, China edges closer and closer to the truth even
while she's getting closer and closer to McQuaid's son Brian. I enjoyed
this book, and while I'm sure there will be those who won't care for the
Ouija board and the channeling, I rather enjoyed that touch. The actual
crisis point in the book had little to do with the rest of the story, but it
seemed to fit, even if it did make solving the murder a bit of an
anticlimax.

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An improvement over the first three.

As with the first three books in this series, I still ask myself how come somebody who owns a store seems to have so much time to run around doing other things. But, getting beyond that, this has definitely been my favorite to date. In this one, after finding the body of Rosemary Robbins (who ran the store a few doors down from China), China seems to feel she owes it to Rosemary to find out who killed her. So once again, instead of letting the police do their job, she throws herself into the thick of things. So, you've got one dead body, one person missing, McQuaid out of the country trying to track down said missing person, an ex-con McQuaid helped put away recently released and threatening to come after McQuaid's son Brian (who has been left in China's care while McQuaid is out of the country), and McQuaid's ex-wife suing for custody of Brian. All in all, a big improvement over her previous books, and a lot of stuff happening. Of course, let's not forget the never-ending tidbits of knowledge regarding various herbs, which I think adds a pleasant side to each of these stories.

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Too much of the occult

Rosemary Robbins is China Bayles' hard-working accountant. When China runs an errand to Rosemary's house, she finds her dead from several bullet wounds. There are no lack of suspects, as Rosemary has an angry ex-husband and two women who are jealous of her new relationship with a man named Jeff. Then, there's a man that China's live-in boyfriend McQuaid helped put away, who is now out of jail. China and her friends do some investigating, despite the fact that McQuaid does not want her to become involved. Before it's over, her friend Ruby convinces her to consult with Ondine, who uses Ouiji boards and communicates with the dead. This book seemed to delve into the occult more than was necessary, but it did develop the relationship between China and McQuaid's son, Brian.

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