Susan Wittig Albert Books in Order

Former Houston lawyer China Bayles trades the courtroom for an herb shop in Pecan Springs, then finds her fresh start shattered when a friend’s apparent suicide looks like murder. Blackmail letters, old greed, and small-town secrets pull her straight back into investigation.

Part memoir and part career guide, this book looks at women who step away from traditional paths to build work that better fits their values, talents, and lives. Albert mixes her own story with the stories of many others.

A Halloween killing gives a self-righteous preacher the excuse he wants to target Ruby Wilcox and her New Age shop. China steps in to protect her friend and uncover the real killer before panic and rumor do more damage.

This revised classroom anthology gathers major works of world literature from many cultures and periods. It is designed to give students both the texts and the context needed to read across traditions.

Writer Kate Ardleigh inherits Bishop’s Keep in Essex and arrives just in time for a corpse to surface at a nearby dig. The case introduces her to amateur detective Sir Charles Sheridan and a whole new life.

Animal-rights fights, academic politics, and murder make an ugly brew when China gets drawn into a campus case. Behind the public arguments, somebody is hiding something worth killing for.

A dead constable and a missing child send Kate Ardleigh and Sir Charles Sheridan after greed, deception, and long-buried secrets. A shy young Beatrix Potter helps them follow the trail.

When an accountant is murdered, China quickly sees that the numbers do not add up. Following the financial trail leads her into a case built on lies, pressure, and carefully hidden motives.

A death in Pecan Springs forces China to face hard truths about guilt, forgiveness, and the limits of what one person can fix. It is a mystery with real emotional weight beneath the clues.

A country-house weekend at the Countess of Warwick’s estate erupts into scandal and two bloody murders. With pressure from the Prince of Wales himself, Charles and Kate have to find the truth quickly.

China follows a case where greed, ambition, and desire run deep, and even the people who should be trustworthy begin to look dangerous. Love and loyalty prove shakier than she wants to believe.

Albert encourages women to tell the true stories of their lives, not just for the record but for clarity, healing, and connection. It is both a writing guide and an argument for the value of lived experience.

A blazing chile cookoff seems like perfect small-town fun, until murder turns up on the menu. China digs through rivalry, ego, and overheated tempers to find out who crossed the line.

Kate and Charles host an automobile exhibition at her ancestral home, where competition, money, and ambition explode into murder. The new age of machines arrives with plenty of danger attached.

A seaside holiday in Rottingdean is ruined when a coast guardsman is found dead on the beach. Smuggling, local suspicion, and help from Rudyard Kipling push Kate and Charles toward a darker truth.

Just as China and McQuaid are preparing to marry, the murder of a widely disliked real estate shark throws Pecan Springs into chaos. Wedding nerves, bad weather, and a dangerous case arrive all at once.

A blackmailer threatens Winston Churchill’s future by claiming his father was Jack the Ripper. Kate and Charles step into a scandal mixing politics, old violence, and royal fear.

Christmas in Pecan Springs turns uneasy when China is pulled into a holiday mystery and forced to imagine what life would look like without Ruby close by. The season is merry, but not especially safe.

A family mystery sends China into the bloody roots of her own Southern past. What she uncovers is not just history, but a legacy of violence and secrecy that still has power in the present.

A jockey’s mysterious death and the old theft of Lillie Langtry’s jewels seem unrelated at first. Kate and Charles soon discover horse racing, society glamour, and murder are tangled together.

While Charles works on a fingerprint project at Dartmoor prison, Kate finds herself near a murder that feels almost supernatural. Arthur Conan Doyle joins the hunt as the Sheridans try to stop both a killer and a prison escape.

This collection gathers China Bayles short mysteries first written for garden readers, along with recipes, crafts, and herbal lore. It is a nice extra for fans who enjoy the cozy side of the series.

A mission to rescue a royal thought dead for years lands Kate and Charles in Glamis Castle, a murder investigation, and a possible plot against the monarchy. Espionage and politics sharpen the stakes.

When historic Indigo is threatened, China and Ruby join forces to protect the landmark and uncover the secrets that could destroy it. Their partnership is the heart of this blue-tinged mystery.

Edited by Albert and Dayna Finet, this anthology gathers memoirs from older women writing about identity, work, family, love, loss, and the history they lived through. The result is intimate, wide-ranging, and quietly powerful.

A bomb meant for King Edward and Queen Alexandra reveals a plot full of spies, radicals, and confusion about who the real terrorists are. Kate and Charles must untangle it with Jack London in the mix.

What starts as a quirky, pickle-flavored puzzle soon turns serious for China. Beneath the jokes and local color is a genuine mystery with sharp edges and plenty of motive.

After the death of her fiancé, Beatrix Potter buys Hill Top Farm and begins making a life in the Lake District. With help from her observant animal friends, she also finds herself drawn into village mystery.

Bones found in a cave point toward an old secret that may help China solve a very current danger. Past and present lock together in a case where every clue feels unsettled.

A visit to Blenheim Palace turns ugly when a glittering house party ends in apparent kidnapping and murder. Kate and Charles are surrounded by power, scandal, and dangerous charm.

When a well-liked shepherd is found dead and his sheep go missing, Beatrix suspects foul play. Farm work, village sorrow, and a young girl’s troubles all feed into the mystery.

The wrong kind of love leaves a trail of fear, ruined lives, and murder. China follows the emotional wreckage into a case where obsession has sharper roots than anyone wants to admit.

Part calendar and part herbal companion, this volume offers recipes, crafts, remedies, garden lore, and seasonal reflections from China Bayles’s world. It is more companion piece than mystery, and great fun for series fans.

Wireless inventor Guglielmo Marconi’s secrets make Cornwall a dangerous place when someone wants his new technology stopped. Charles investigates industrial sabotage while Kate follows a mystery of her own.

While gathering yucca for a papermaking workshop, China finds the body of Ruby’s former lover. With Ruby away and trouble spreading from a nursery to a drug investigation, the case turns dangerous fast.

Rats overrun Hill Top Farm while, nearby, a mild village vicar suffers from unwelcome guests who will not leave. Beatrix sorts through nuisance, mystery, and a woman with a hidden past.

An abandoned baby left at Hill Top Farm sends Beatrix searching for the child’s identity. At the same time, village life grows complicated in ways both comic and quietly painful.

This anthology gathers true writing by women reflecting on the landscapes of the American Southwest. The pieces are personal, varied, and rooted in lived experience of land, memory, and place.

Still shaken by her father’s death, China wants no part of her half-brother’s digging into the past. Then a fresh corpse and a tangle of family secrets force her and McQuaid to keep going.

What looks like an accident after an antiquities collector’s death may be something darker. Beatrix, the villagers, and even the animals find themselves caught in a knot of intrigue and growing romance.

A burning haystack, a blocked footpath, and rumors of a ghost stir up trouble in the village. As always, Beatrix must sort through both local mystery and the quieter changes in people’s hearts.

In this memoir, Albert reflects on marriage, solitude, and attachment to place. It asks how two people can build a shared life while still making room for privacy, inwardness, and independence.

A visit to a Kentucky Shaker village with her friend Martha Edmond pulls China into a deadly crime and a bitter history of loss. The setting is quiet, but the story is anything but.

Using the days of 2008 as her frame, Albert reflects on recession, war, climate change, reading, and daily life. It is a memoir of ordinary routines shaped by extraordinary public events.

McQuaid’s troubled ex-wife Sally shows up in Pecan Springs just before Christmas, bringing fear, secrets, and the promise of legal trouble with her. China must sort out Sally’s past before it damages everyone around her.

In Depression-era Darling, Alabama, the ladies of the garden club juggle a buried treasure, an escaped prisoner, a stolen car, and the suspicious death of Bunny Scott. It is a lively start to a warm ensemble series.

An aeroplane disturbs both villagers and animals until a developer dies in suspicious circumstances. Beatrix also has poison-pen letters and unfolding romance to worry about.

China comes upon a burning trailer and realizes the blaze is arson homicide. When young reporter Jessica Nelson gets too close to the story and disappears, China races to find her before the case claims another victim.

A famous dancer arrives in Darling in disguise, followed by a man linked to Al Capone’s world. Big-city crime brushes up against small-town life, and the Dahlias have to keep up.

In summer 1913, Beatrix is eager to marry William Heelis, but parental disapproval and the death of a carpenter at Castle Cottage stand in the way. It brings the series to a fitting close.

Police chief Sheila Dawson refuses to accept that a local computer expert killed himself, and China backs her up. A stalker, a burglary, and ugly secrets in Pecan Springs make this one of Sheila’s toughest cases.

Missing county money, a baffling case of hair loss, and questions about Miss Rogers’s true identity give the Dahlias plenty to untangle. The mysteries bloom in several directions at once.

This novel imagines the collaboration between Rose Wilder Lane and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, as the Little House books take shape. It is a story about ambition, family, authorship, and credit.

A celebrity aviatrix and her flying circus bring noise, rumor, and danger to Darling’s Watermelon Festival. The Dahlias have a town to manage and a mystery to solve before the show is over.

A haunted house built from hurricane grief draws Ruby and China into trouble when a friend inherits it and wants to turn it into an inn. Meanwhile, a bank robbery and murder bring very real danger to the door.

When filmmaker Karen Prior dies after an apparent mugging, China suspects it connects to the cold case Karen was researching. Reopening the old murder leads China toward Mexican art, buried motive, and fresh risk.

A year’s worth of weekly prompts, quotations, and encouragement for women who want to tell their own stories. It is practical, inviting, and designed to keep writers moving.

Moonshine, money trouble, and romantic upheaval keep the women of Darling busy even before murder enters the picture. The Dahlias once again have to steady the town while secrets shake it.

Thanksgiving plans at her mother’s birding retreat go sideways when a woman dies on a deserted road and a local veterinarian is shot. China and game warden Mack Chambers uncover theft, animal trafficking, and murder.

When a switchboard operator known as the Eleven O’Clock Lady is found strangled, gossip shoots through Darling at once. The murder also threatens the town’s uneasy relationship with a nearby CCC camp.

China’s tenant, a nurse caught in a vicious divorce, discovers suspicious practices at a hospice and may know about a murder. When she is run off the road and left in a coma, China starts asking dangerous questions.

Lorena Hickok is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt and finds her life changed by the relationship that follows. Based on their long correspondence, the novel traces love, distance, and devotion across decades.

In wartime London, Kay Summersby becomes General Eisenhower’s driver and then something more complicated. Albert turns the triangle among Kay, Ike, and Mamie into an intimate story about loyalty, power, and cost.

An escaped convict from McQuaid’s past sends China away to an olive ranch workshop for safety, but trouble is waiting there too. An inheritance fight and McQuaid’s risky trap turn into a race against revenge.

Strange happenings at Thyme & Seasons suggest Ruby may be right about one thing at last: the place is haunted. China follows a ghostly trail of flowers and old memories into a long-buried secret from Pecan Springs’s past.

Christmas 1934 brings more than holiday cheer to Darling. A struggling bakery, secrets at the prison farm, and private worries all fold into one seasonal puzzle for the Dahlias.

A run of bad luck for Darling’s favorite barbershop quartet and fresh bootlegging trouble give the town a lot to worry about. The Dahlias sort through charm, crime, and small-town fallout.

A customer workshop on vanilla turns deadly when a botany professor specializing in vanilla orchids is murdered. China and police chief Sheila Dawson sort through jealous colleagues, smugglers, patents, and a frightened little girl.

Ruby Wilcox’s gift for seeing what others miss becomes a burden when dreams and reality begin to blur. This short, moody opener puts her inner life at the center of the suspense.

Jessica Nelson brings Ruby a case involving a serial killer who leaves an ancient image behind at crime scenes. Ruby’s unusual abilities may be the only way to read what the killer is saying.

Music, mystery, and Ruby’s unsettled psychic talent drive the second Crystal Cave novella. The more Ethan Connors wants from her gift, the less certain Ruby feels about what she is hearing.

Spring 1935 brings a new radio station, fresh trouble at Magnolia Manor, and a new round of gossip in Darling. The Dahlias once again have to sort through charm, danger, and a very local mystery.

China heads to North Carolina when a rare gardening book vanishes from a haunted private library and her friend falls under suspicion. A missing *Curious Herbal*, an attempted murder, and an old heiress’s secrets complicate everything.

Labor Day weekend in 1935 should be hot but manageable, until a firebug starts striking Darling without any clear pattern. The Dahlias face fear, suspicion, and the danger of a town that no longer feels safe.

Built from letters and archival research, this novel follows the intense working relationship between Georgia O’Keeffe and Maria Chabot. It shows the decade in which Chabot helped shape O’Keeffe’s New Mexico life and home.

A local podcaster investigating an old murder dies in an apparent hit-and-run just before she can expose a prominent man’s secret. China follows missing memories, a scrapbook, and photographs with one face cut out.