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ryouhku's review against another edition
4.0
This was one of my favorite books in the series. Maybe it was the difference in setting, taking the protagonist China Bayles out of the familiar Texas surroundings or the fascinating historical research that Susan Wittig Albert so lushly evokes, but I enjoyed this one more than the rest of the series.
pussreboots's review against another edition
2.0
Long and stuffed with lots of excess. Pared down it could be retitled China Bayles Has One More Question ala the middle grade book [b:Effie Starr Zook Has One More Question|30227883|Effie Starr Zook Has One More Question|Martha Freeman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1488714281l/30227883._SY75_.jpg|50687301].
cherylanntownsend's review against another edition
5.0
When ex-defense attorney, cum herbal store and tea room owner, China Bayles, is called back to her families Mississippi homestead to help ferry out the truth behind a recently found centuries old deed, it’s more than skeletons in the closet that are exposed.
Leaving her own family and life in Texas, she drives out, at her mothers pleading, to assist in the swamp of trouble besetting her great-aunt, who is in the late stages of Huntington’s disease. Her own memories unfurl, including what she believed to be a recurring dream of a body found in the backyard on a midnight search.
It has all the makings of the steamy southern folklore: proprietary ghosts, sordid family history, illegitimate children, murder, an so forth. (There’s even a cameo appearance by Minerva from “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” tho in an alias.. wink, wink.)
Lots to keep track of with family lineage unfurled, but one of her best writes so far.
Leaving her own family and life in Texas, she drives out, at her mothers pleading, to assist in the swamp of trouble besetting her great-aunt, who is in the late stages of Huntington’s disease. Her own memories unfurl, including what she believed to be a recurring dream of a body found in the backyard on a midnight search.
It has all the makings of the steamy southern folklore: proprietary ghosts, sordid family history, illegitimate children, murder, an so forth. (There’s even a cameo appearance by Minerva from “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” tho in an alias.. wink, wink.)
Lots to keep track of with family lineage unfurled, but one of her best writes so far.
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