Berkley
April 2014
On Sale: April 1, 2014
Featuring: China Bayles; Rachel Blackwood; Claire
304 pages ISBN: 042525464X EAN: 9780425254646 Kindle: B009KUX2G0 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is “in a class with
lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum”
(Publishers Weekly). In Widow’s Tears, a haunted house may
hold the key to solving the murder of one of China’s friends.
After losing her family and home in the Galveston Hurricane
of 1900, Rachel Blackwood rebuilt her house a hundred miles
inland and later died there, still wrapped in her grief.
In present-day Texas, Claire, the grandniece of Rachel’s
caretaker, has inherited the house and wants to turn it into
a bed-and-breakfast. But she is concerned that it’s haunted,
so she calls in her friend Ruby—who has the gift of
extrasensory perception—to check it out.
While Ruby is ghost hunting, China Bayles walks into a storm
of trouble in nearby Pecan Springs. A half hour before she
is to make her nightly deposit, the Pecan Springs bank is
robbed and a teller is shot and killed.
Before she can discover the identity of the killers, China
follows Ruby to the Blackwood house to discuss urgent
business. As she is drawn into the mystery of the haunted
house, China opens the door on some very real danger.